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Narrative Theory
- Author(s):
- Elaine Auyoung (see profile)
- Date:
- 2019
- Group(s):
- GS Prose Fiction, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English, TM Literary Criticism, TM The Teaching of Literature
- Subject(s):
- Narration (Rhetoric), Literature--Theory, etc., English fiction, Nineteenth century, Fiction, Reading, Structuralism
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- reader response, Narrative theory, Victorian novel, Novel (genre), Literary theory, Narrative, 19th century, Literary criticism
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/k2m8-c554
- Abstract:
- This essay surveys literary criticism at the intersection of narrative theory and the Victorian novel, which often takes one of two major approaches. In the first approach, critics examine how the act of narration itself shapes and constrains Victorian narratives, whereas in the second approach, critics focus on the relationship between Victorian narratives and their audience. The piece concludes with an account of how psychological perspectives on reading can expand narrative theory’s understanding of what readers do with literary texts and what texts do to their readers in turn.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Book chapter Show details
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Pub. Date:
- 2019
- Book Title:
- The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature
- Author/Editor:
- Dennis Denisoff and Talia Schaffer
- Chapter:
- Narrative Theory
- Page Range:
- 217 - 225
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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