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Arguing that genre must play a role in our study of narrative fiction, this "tour" of the novel examines interactive storytelling scenes in which characters argue about how to tell a tale that meets their respective social and aesthetic expectations. Through readings of interactive storytelling scenes in works spanning the 17th through 20th centuries, Halevi-Wise demonstrates how dramatized arguments about storytelling open a window on social and generic dilemmas affecting the narrative of each novel at the time of its composition.

Title Interactive fictions : scenes of storytelling in the novel / Yael Halevi-Wise.
Additional Titles Scenes of storytelling in the novel
Publisher Westport, Conn.
London : Praeger
Creation Date 2003
Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-184) and index.
Content The Story within the Novel -- Interactive Fictions -- Storytelling Events as Markers of Fictionality -- Integrative Poetics -- Don Quixote and Sancho Learn Each Other's Language: Expedient Manipulations of Genre and Enchantment -- Narrative Pleasures and Inhibitions: The Eighteenth-Century English Novel -- Tristram Shandy: Erotic and Temporal Solidifications of a Storytelling Performance -- Fielding's Modern Comic Epic -- Between the Gothic and the Midlands -- The Realist Agenda: Metafiction and Romance Swept under the Carpet -- The Rhetoric of Anxiety in Conrad's Lord Jim -- Interactive Fictions in the Contemporary Novel -- A.B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani -- The Power of Storytelling in Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate.
Series Contributions to the study of world literature, 0738-9345
no. 123
Extent xv, 193 pages
25 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990050637700205171
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