Strange Narrators in Contemporary Fiction: Explorations in Readers' Engagement with Characters (Frontiers of Narrative) - Hardcover

Caracciolo, Marco

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803294964 ISBN 13: 9780803294967

Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 2016

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A storyteller&;s craft can often be judged by how convincingly the narrative captures the identity and personality of its characters. In this book, the characters who take center stage are &;strange&; first-person narrators: they are fascinating because of how they are at odds with what the reader would wish or expect to hear&;while remaining reassuringly familiar in voice, interactions, and conversations. Combining literary analysis with research in cognitive and social psychology, Marco Caracciolo focuses on readers&; encounters with the &;strange&; narrators of ten contemporary novels, including Bret Easton Ellis&;s American Psycho, Haruki Murakami&;s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and Mark Haddon&;s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Caracciolo explores readers&; responses to narrators who suffer from neurocognitive or developmental disorders, who are mentally disturbed due to multiple personality disorder or psychopathy, whose consciousness is split between two parallel dimensions or is disembodied, who are animals, or who lose their sanity.
A foray into current work on reception, reader-response, cognitive literary study, and narratology, Strange Narrators in Contemporary Fiction illustrates why any encounter with a fictional text is a complex negotiation of interlaced feelings, thoughts, experiences, and interpretations.

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Marco Caracciolo is a postdoctoral researcher in the English department of the University of Freiburg in Germany. He is the author of The Experientiality of Narrative: An Enactivist Approach and the coauthor (with psychologist Russell Hurlburt) of A Passion for Specificity: Confronting Inner Experience in Literature and Science.
 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0803294964
• ISBN 13: 9780803294967
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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