04738nam 2200805Ia 450 991082073700332120230725023439.01-282-71629-897866127162943-11-021365-610.1515/9783110213652(CKB)2670000000018714(EBL)516547(OCoLC)635954998(SSID)ssj0000399803(PQKBManifestationID)11290909(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000399803(PQKBWorkID)10384694(PQKB)11663662(MiAaPQ)EBC516547(DE-B1597)35899(OCoLC)699717969(DE-B1597)9783110213652(Au-PeEL)EBL516547(CaPaEBR)ebr10381191(CaONFJC)MIL271629(EXLCZ)99267000000001871420100115d2010 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrEventfulness in British fiction[electronic resource] /by Peter Hühn; with contributions by Markus Kempf, Katrin Kroll and Jette K. WulfNew York De Gruyter20101 online resource (221 p.)Narratologia. Contributions to narrative theory ;18Description based upon print version of record.3-11-021364-8 Includes bibliographical references. Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- Late Medieval and Early Modern -- 2. Geoffrey Chaucer: "The Miller's Tale" -- 3. Aphra Behn: Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: A True History (1688) -- 18th Century -- 4. Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders (1722) -- 5. Samuel Richardson: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740) -- 6. Henry Fielding: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749) -- Premodern and Modernist -- 7. Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (1861) -- 8. Thomas Hardy: "On the Western Circuit" (1891) -- 9. Henry James: "The Beast in the Jungle" (1903) -- 10. James Joyce: "Grace" (1914) -- 11. Joseph Conrad: The Shadow-Line: A Confession (1917) -- 12. Virginia Woolf: "An Unwritten Novel" (1921) -- 13. D. H. Lawrence: "Fanny and Annie" (1921) -- 14. Katherine Mansfield: "At the Bay" (1922) -- Contemporary -- 15. John Fowles: "The Enigma" (1974) -- 16. Graham Swift: Last Orders (1996) -- 17. ConclusionAn event, defined as the decisive turn, the surprising point in the plot of a narrative, constitutes its tellability, the motivation for reading it. This book describes a framework for a narratological definition of eventfulness and its dependence on the historical, socio-cultural and literary context. A series of fifteen analyses of British novels and tales, from late medieval and early modern times to the late 20th century, demonstrates how this concept can be put into practice for a new, specifically contextual interpretation of the central relevance of these texts. The examples include Chaucer's "Miller's Tale", Behn's "Oroonoko", Defoe's "Moll Flanders", Richardson's "Pamela", Fielding's "Tom Jones", Dickens's "Great Expectations", Hardy's "On the Western Circuit", James's "The Beast in the Jungle", Joyce's "Grace", Conrad's "Shadow-Line", Woolf's "Unwritten Novel", Lawrence's "Fanny and Annie", Mansfield's "At the Bay", Fowles's "Enigma" and Swift's "Last Orders". This selection is focused on the transitional period from 19th-century realism to 20th-century modernism because during these decades traditional concepts of what counts as an event were variously problematized; therefore, these texts provide a particularly interesting field for testing the analytical capacity of the term of eventfulness. NarratologiaEnglish fictionHistory and criticismEnglish fictionStories, plots, etcEvents (Philosophy) in literatureFictionStories, plots, etcNarration (Rhetoric)British Literature.Eventfulness.Narratology.Plot.English fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionEvents (Philosophy) in literature.FictionNarration (Rhetoric)823/.00924HG 680rvkHühn Peter1939-435274Kempf Markus1595953Kroll Katrin1595954Wulf Jette K1595955MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820737003321Eventfulness in British fiction3917089UNINA