Michael Toolan

Making Sense of Narrative Text

Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Michael Toolan explores the textual/grammatical nature of fictional narratives, critically re-examining foundational ideas about the role of lexical patterning in narrative texts, and also engages the cognitive or psychological processes at play in literary reading using stylistics, corpus linguistic principles, narratological ideas, and cognitive stylistic work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781138654846
• ISBN-10: 1138654841
• Artikelnr.: 44147236

Autorenporträt

Michael Toolan is Professor of English Language at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. From Intersentential Connection to Interpersonal Engagement 2.
Patterning by Lexical Repetition and "The Princess and the Pea" 3.
Situation 4. Mental Picturing 5. Integrating lexical patterning and the
'pictured' narrative situation 6. Attempting to bring it all together:
repeated renewal of the pictured situation