Dual Narrative Dynamics

Combining narratological and stylistic methods, this book theorizes dual narrative dynamics comprised of plot development and covert progression, and demonstrates the consequences for the interpretation of literary works.

List of contents

Introduction Part I Theory 1. Uniqueness of "Covert Progression" and its Different Relations with Plot Development 2. Why Covert Progressions Have Been Neglected and How to Uncover Them 3. How Dual Dynamics Can Transform and Extend Narratology 4. How Dual Dynamics Challenges Stylistics and How to Meet the Challenge 5. How Dual Dynamics Challenges Translation and How to Meet the Challenge Part II Practice 6. Naturalistic Covert Progression behind Complicated Plot Development: Chopin's "A Pair of Silk Stockings" 7. Dual Dynamics versus Single Dynamic: Bierce's "A Horseman in the Sky" and "The Affair at Coulter's Notch" 8. Societal Conflict Hidden Behind Personal Conflict: Kafka's "The Judgment" 9. Actually Unrequited behind Superficially Mutual Love: Mansfield's "Psychology” 10. One Focalization, Dual Progression, and Twofold Irony: Mansfield’s “A Dill Pickle” 11. Gender Reversal behind Miserable Life: Mansfield’s “Life of Ma Parker” in Contrast with Chekov’s “Misery” Conclusion

About the author

Dan Shen is Boya Chair Professor of English at Peking University, China. She is on the advisory boards of Narrative and Style, the editorial board of Language and Literature, and also a consultant editor of Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. She has published seven books, including Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction with Routledge.

Summary

Combining narratological and stylistic methods, this book theorizes dual narrative dynamics comprised of plot development and covert progression, and demonstrates the consequences for the interpretation of literary works.

Product details

• Authors: Dan Shen, Shen Dan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032403465
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3240346-5
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: China Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Discourse Analysis, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, North America, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Short Stories, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Australian & Oceanian, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics