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Narrative progression in the short story [[electronic resource] ] : a corpus stylistic approach / / Michael Toolan
| Narrative progression in the short story [[electronic resource] ] : a corpus stylistic approach / / Michael Toolan |
| Autore | Toolan Michael J |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina | 808.3/1 |
| Collana | Linguistic approaches to literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Fiction - Authorship
Narration (Rhetoric) Short story - Technique |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-10480-2
9786612104800 90-272-9061-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454747703321 |
Toolan Michael J
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| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Narrative progression in the short story [[electronic resource] ] : a corpus stylistic approach / / Michael Toolan
| Narrative progression in the short story [[electronic resource] ] : a corpus stylistic approach / / Michael Toolan |
| Autore | Toolan Michael J |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina | 808.3/1 |
| Collana | Linguistic approaches to literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Fiction - Authorship
Narration (Rhetoric) Short story - Technique |
| ISBN |
1-282-10480-2
9786612104800 90-272-9061-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782432103321 |
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Toolan Michael J
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| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Narrative progression in the short story : a corpus stylistic approach / / Michael Toolan
| Narrative progression in the short story : a corpus stylistic approach / / Michael Toolan |
| Autore | Toolan Michael J |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina | 808.3/1 |
| Collana | Linguistic approaches to literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Fiction - Authorship
Narration (Rhetoric) Short story - Technique |
| ISBN |
1-282-10480-2
9786612104800 90-272-9061-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Narrative Progression in the Short Story -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The crucial question: how does text 'guide' the reader? -- 2. A brief sketch of the research context and methods -- 3. On genre, relevance, scripts, and background -- 4. Guided expectation -- 5. Text integrity -- 6. Predictive reading -- 7. Conclusion -- Collocation and corpus stylistics -- 1. Studies in discourse prospection and expectation -- 2. Collocational stylistics -- 3. Choosing an appropriate comparator corpus -- 4. A note on the stories selected for analysis. -- 5. Conclusion -- Lexical patternings in short stories -- 1 Word frequencies in "Two Gallants" -- 1.1 "Gallantry" in Dubliners -- 1.2 High and low frequency lexis in "Two Gallants" -- 2. Textual richness measured by lexical diversity -- 2.1 The type-token measure -- 2.2 Lexical innovation and text structure -- 3. Foregrounding via repetitive phrasing or by novelty of phrasing and collocation -- 3.1 Clusters -- 3.2 Achieving the stern task of living: a tissue of not-so-vague associations -- 4. Keyword analysis of "Two Gallants" -- 4.1 Using keywords on "Two Gallants": section by section -- Top keyword sentences as story waymarking -- 1. A top keyword abridgement of "Two Gallants" -- 2. Applying the top keyword procedure in story abridgements -- 2.1 Updike's "A & -- P" -- 2.2 Carver's "Boxes". -- 2.3 Carver's "Cathedral". -- 3. Further procedural questions about the top keyword method -- 3.1 Distinguishing the top keyword from other frequent keywords. -- 3.2 On the importance, in the top keyword, of proper name status. -- 4. Some interim conclusions -- Keywords and the Language of Guidance in "The Love of a Good Woman" -- 1. Story opening as initial guidance -- 2. Top lexical keywords as narrativity indices.
3. Textual segmentation and keywords' collocates. -- 4. Local (within-section) interrelation and collocation of keywords -- Repetition and para-repetition in story structure -- 1. A more delicate keywords and plotlinks analysis of "The Love of a Good Woman" -- 2. Keyword personal pronouns and idiolect-signalling -- 3. The non-repetitive echo: long-distance patterning via associated lexis and analogy -- 3.1 Rubbing and scratching surfaces -- 3.2 Dark above, light below -- 3.3 Sorrowful plummeting -- 3.4 Bashing, banging and braining -- 4. Para-repetitive narrative bonding between story opening and remainder -- Prospection and expectation -- 1. Sentences featuring named main characters -- 1.1 High frequency and keyword character referencing -- 1.2 Modelling cohesive chains in long texts by sampling -- 2. Narrative-tense finite verbs in character-depicting action clauses -- 2.1 Narrative-tense verbs with inquits excluded -- 2.2 VVD density -- 2.3 Is independent capture of narrative-tense action verbs needed? -- 3. The cueing power of first sentences of narrative paragraphs -- 4. Narrativity carried by "fully lexical" frequent keywords and clusters. -- 4.1 Frequent keywords -- 4.2 Clusters -- Prospection and expectation -- 1. The heightened narrativity of characters' represented thought -- 1.1 Automating identification of FIT: rule 1, narrative modal verbs with pronouns. -- 1.2 Exclude modals following if, whether, that… -- 1.3 Automating identification of FIT: Rule 2, include all questions and exclamations in the narrative -- 1.4 Automating identification of FIT: Rule 3, include all flanking sentences containing subjective modals -- 1.5 Modifying the three FIT-finding procedures -- 2. Prospective direct speech -- 3. Negation-carrying clauses -- 4. Narrative verbs of modality and mental processing -- 5. Implementing the model with "Two Gallants". 6. Compiling the abridgement -- The textual tracking of suspense and surprise -- 1. Narrative suspense -- 2. Narrative surprise -- 3. Textualising suspense in "Two Gallants" -- 4. Textualising surprise in "Bliss" and "A small, good thing" -- Next steps -- 1. Corpus-based study of narrativity: a work in progress. -- 2. Expanding and refining the model: modality and evaluation -- 3. The reader's experience of the text -- 4. Directions for future research -- References -- Name index -- Topic index -- The series Linguistic Approaches to Literature. |
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Toolan Michael J
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| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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