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Unnatural Narrative - Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama (Hardcover)
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Unnatural Narrative - Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama (Hardcover)
Series: Frontiers of Narrative
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A talking body part, a character that is simultaneously alive and
dead, a shape-changing setting, or time travel: although impossible
in the real world, such narrative elements do appear in the
storyworlds of novels, short stories, and plays. Impossibilities of
narrator, character, time, and space are not only common in today's
world of postmodernist literature but can also be found throughout
the history of literature. Examples include the beast fable, the
heroic epic, the romance, the eighteenth-century circulation novel,
the Gothic novel, the ghost play, the fantasy narrative, and the
science-fiction novel, among others. Unnatural Narrative looks at
the startling and persistent presence of the impossible or "the
unnatural" throughout British and American literary history.
Layering the lenses of cognitive narratology, frame theory, and
possible-worlds theory, Unnatural Narrative offers a rigorous and
engaging new characterization of the unnatural and what it yields
for individual readers as well as literary culture. Jan Alber
demonstrates compelling interpretations of the unnatural in
literature and shows the ways in which such unnatural phenomena
become conventional in readers' minds, altogether expanding our
sense of the imaginable and informing new structures and genres of
narrative engagement.
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