Style articles from September 2004

Style archives from September 2004

Limits of the narrator's knowledge in Fielding's Joseph Andrews: a contribution to a theory of negated knowledge in fiction.(Henry Fielding)
September 22, 2004... In the subchapter titled "Privilege" of his Rhetoric of Fiction Wayne Booth draws our attention to a "curious ambiguity in the term 'omniscience'" resulting from the apparent incompatibility of two familiar basic observations (161). Although,...

Are Fielding's Shamela and Richardson's Pamela one and the same person? A contribution to the problem of the number of fictive worlds.(Henry Fieldings)(Samuel Richardson)
September 22, 2004... 1 The most fundamental question in the theory of fiction is probably that concerning reference, namely, the question: do fictional texts have extralinguistic referents? The answers to this question fluctuate between yes and no, with the...

Some problems concerning a theory of fiction(ality).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... 1. The Linguistic Problem Problems of theory often tend to be problems of language and this is especially--though not exclusively--the case in the so-called humanities. The debate on the nature of fiction is a case in point. The problems...

Aesthetic illusion as an effect of fiction.
September 22, 2004... 1. Introduction: Aesthetic Illusion as Reception Phenomenon and as a Problem for Narratology "THE CORRECTIONS is the whole package... You will laugh, wince, groan, weep [...] and be reminded of why you read serious fiction in the first...

Where historiographic metafiction and narratology meet: towards an applied cultural narratology.
September 22, 2004... 1. Whither Narratology? The histories and respective achievements of structuralist narratology and German contributions to narrative theory (Erzahltheorie) have recently become the subject of a controversy. While David Darby's article...

Marie-Laure Ryan. Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Marie-Laure Ryan. Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xiii + 399. $23.95 paper. Narrative as Virtual Reality offers the reader an...

What Is Narratology? Questions and Answers regarding the Status of a Theory.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... What Is Narratology? Questions and Answers regarding the Status of a Theory. Ed. Tom Kindt and Hans-Harald Muller. Narratalogia, 1. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2003. vii + 368 pp. $137.20 cloth. De Gruyter's Narratologia series is...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
September 22, 2004... An article was omitted from the table of contents for issue 38.1 (Spring 2004): MARK R. MCCULLOH "The Stylistics of Statsis: Paradoxical Effects in W. G. Sebald" /38 The editor regrets this oversight.

Books received.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2004... Bohn, Willard. The Other Futurism: Futurist Activity on Venice, Padua, and Vernoa. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2004. $50.00 cloth. Booth, Allison. How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present....