To Tell a Story: Narrative Theory and Practice: Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, February 4, 1972William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1973 - 102 pages |
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... reader or writer and the world of the literary work . So redefined , mode is not simply part of a self - sufficient literary structure , but a bond of under- standing by which a narrative manipulates its readers in a whole complex of ...
... reader or writer and the world of the literary work . So redefined , mode is not simply part of a self - sufficient literary structure , but a bond of under- standing by which a narrative manipulates its readers in a whole complex of ...
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... reader's transformations can be represented by saying that each transformation by the poet ( as poet and not as a reader ) pro- duces another work , a Macbeth after a Hamlet , whereas the reader's transformations produce so many Hamlets ...
... reader's transformations can be represented by saying that each transformation by the poet ( as poet and not as a reader ) pro- duces another work , a Macbeth after a Hamlet , whereas the reader's transformations produce so many Hamlets ...
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... reader are assumed . " But it turns out that he thinks this is true only in the low mimetic mode - that is , when the hero and world of the work are exactly like us and our world . In the other modes , he tends to give the poet the ...
... reader are assumed . " But it turns out that he thinks this is true only in the low mimetic mode - that is , when the hero and world of the work are exactly like us and our world . In the other modes , he tends to give the poet the ...
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