Eventfulness in British Fiction

by Peter Hühn and Markus Kempf

An event, defined as the decisive turn, the surprising point in the plot of a narrative, constitutes its tellability, the motivation for reading it. This book describes a framework for a narratological definition of eventfulness and its dependence on the historical, socio-cultural and literary context. A series of fifteen analyses of British novels and tales, from late medieval and early modern times to the late 20th century, demonstrates how this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110213648
• ISBN13: 9783110213645
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary