Double Heart
Explicit and Implicit Texts in Bellow, Camus and Kafka
Buch in deiner Nähe kaufen
Beschreibung
What distinguishes fiction from non-fiction in first-person narratives? What is the difference between a novel and autobiography? What makes a first-person narrative a literary work of art? If fiction is a self-contained meaning structure, what frame of reference can we use to tell if the narrator is «lying?» Using a phenomenological approach to these questions basic to both literary theory and practical literary criticism, Lucy L. Melbourne develops a model of the unreliable first-person narrative. By applying it to three challenging works, Saul Bellow's Dangling Man, Albert Camus's La Chute, and Franz Kafka's Ein Landarzt, she shows us how to read «between the lines» to discover the implicit text structuring first-person narratives into literary works of art.
Autor*in
Themen in »Double Heart«
Bellow Camus Double Explicit Heart Implicit Kafka Texts
Stimmen zu »Double Heart«
«Definitely a contribution to our understanding of first-person narrative.» (Eugene H. Falk, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
«...highly illuminating...a nice blending of theory and enlightenment.» (Richard H. Lawson. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
«I would recommend this study then to readers seeking clear and comprehensive thematic readings of Bellow and Camus.» (South Atlantic Review)
()