LEADER 04738nam 2200805Ia 450 001 9910820737003321 005 20230725023439.0 010 $a1-282-71629-8 010 $a9786612716294 010 $a3-11-021365-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110213652 035 $a(CKB)2670000000018714 035 $a(EBL)516547 035 $a(OCoLC)635954998 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000399803 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11290909 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000399803 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10384694 035 $a(PQKB)11663662 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC516547 035 $a(DE-B1597)35899 035 $a(OCoLC)699717969 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110213652 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL516547 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10381191 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL271629 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000018714 100 $a20100115d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEventfulness in British fiction$b[electronic resource] /$fby Peter Hu?hn; with contributions by Markus Kempf, Katrin Kroll and Jette K. Wulf 210 $aNew York $cDe Gruyter$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (221 p.) 225 0 $aNarratologia. Contributions to narrative theory ;$v18 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-021364-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $t1. Introduction -- $tLate Medieval and Early Modern -- $t2. Geoffrey Chaucer: "The Miller's Tale" -- $t3. Aphra Behn: Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: A True History (1688) -- $t18th Century -- $t4. Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders (1722) -- $t5. Samuel Richardson: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740) -- $t6. Henry Fielding: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749) -- $tPremodern and Modernist -- $t7. Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (1861) -- $t8. Thomas Hardy: "On the Western Circuit" (1891) -- $t9. Henry James: "The Beast in the Jungle" (1903) -- $t10. James Joyce: "Grace" (1914) -- $t11. Joseph Conrad: The Shadow-Line: A Confession (1917) -- $t12. Virginia Woolf: "An Unwritten Novel" (1921) -- $t13. D. H. Lawrence: "Fanny and Annie" (1921) -- $t14. Katherine Mansfield: "At the Bay" (1922) -- $tContemporary -- $t15. John Fowles: "The Enigma" (1974) -- $t16. Graham Swift: Last Orders (1996) -- $t17. Conclusion 330 $aAn event, defined as the decisive turn, the surprising point in the plot of a narrative, constitutes its tellability, the motivation for reading it. This book describes a framework for a narratological definition of eventfulness and its dependence on the historical, socio-cultural and literary context. A series of fifteen analyses of British novels and tales, from late medieval and early modern times to the late 20th century, demonstrates how this concept can be put into practice for a new, specifically contextual interpretation of the central relevance of these texts. The examples include Chaucer's "Miller's Tale", Behn's "Oroonoko", Defoe's "Moll Flanders", Richardson's "Pamela", Fielding's "Tom Jones", Dickens's "Great Expectations", Hardy's "On the Western Circuit", James's "The Beast in the Jungle", Joyce's "Grace", Conrad's "Shadow-Line", Woolf's "Unwritten Novel", Lawrence's "Fanny and Annie", Mansfield's "At the Bay", Fowles's "Enigma" and Swift's "Last Orders". This selection is focused on the transitional period from 19th-century realism to 20th-century modernism because during these decades traditional concepts of what counts as an event were variously problematized; therefore, these texts provide a particularly interesting field for testing the analytical capacity of the term of eventfulness. 410 0$aNarratologia 606 $aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$vStories, plots, etc 606 $aEvents (Philosophy) in literature 606 $aFiction$vStories, plots, etc 606 $aNarration (Rhetoric) 610 $aBritish Literature. 610 $aEventfulness. 610 $aNarratology. 610 $aPlot. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction 615 0$aEvents (Philosophy) in literature. 615 0$aFiction 615 0$aNarration (Rhetoric) 676 $a823/.00924 686 $aHG 680$2rvk 700 $aHu?hn$b Peter$f1939-$0435274 701 $aKempf$b Markus$01595953 701 $aKroll$b Katrin$01595954 701 $aWulf$b Jette K$01595955 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820737003321 996 $aEventfulness in British fiction$93917089 997 $aUNINA