We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction
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Subjects (LCSH):
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticismGrammar, Comparative and general -- Pronoun
Storytelling in literature
Narration (Rhetoric)
Keywords:
Literary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Issue Date:
2020Metadata
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The Ohio State University PressSeries/Report no.:
Theory and Interpretation of NarrativeContents:
Telling a story in the plural -- We-narrative: the first-person plural narrative situation -- We-discourses: the we-pronoun and Its indicative and performative uses in fiction -- Plural narrators: collective voices, lyric progression, and direct speech by groups -- Plural perspective: group ethos, narrators-voyeurs, and diegetic levels -- Collective knowledge: epistemological possibilities of we-narrators, gossip, and unreliability -- Us versus them: community dynamics in we-narratives.
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9780814214411 (print)Rights:
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