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Making Sense of Narrative Text - Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories (Hardcover)
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Making Sense of Narrative Text - Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics
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This book takes the following question as its starting point: What
are some of the crucial things the reader must do in order to make
sense of a literary narrative? The book is a study of the texture
of narrative fiction, using stylistics, corpus linguistic
principles (especially Hoey's work on lexical patterning),
narratological ideas, and cognitive stylistic work by Werth,
Emmott, and others. Michael Toolan explores the textual/grammatical
nature of fictional narratives, critically re-examining
foundational ideas about the role of lexical patterning in
narrative texts, and also engages the cognitive or psychological
processes at play in literary reading. The study grows out of the
theoretical questions that stylistic analyses of extended fictional
texts raise, concerning the nature of narrative comprehension and
the reader's experience in the course of reading narratives, and
particularly concerning the role of language in that comprehension
and experience. The ideas of situation, repetition and picturing
are all central to the book's argument about how readers process
story, and Toolan also considers the ethical and emotional
involvement of the reader, developing hypotheses about the
text-linguistic characteristics of the most ethically and
emotionally involving portions of the stories examined. This book
makes an important contribution to the study of narrative text and
is in dialogue with recent work in corpus stylistics, cognitive
stylistics, and literary text and texture.
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