The Essentials of Narrative: A Synthesis of the West and the East

This is a study on the nature of narrative in light of a narratological theory inspired by a comparison of narratives in the West and the East, and which tries to reach a deeper understanding of narratives in their particular cultural milieus as well as the nature of narrative per se. The macroscopic structure which the subject itself demands gives coherence to the study of elements which do not solely belong to narrative texts but nevertheless are essential for a text to function as a narrative. The essentials under investigation are the narrator's perspective (which gives a narrative its internal structure), language (which both enables and affects the formation of narrative), and the notion of genre (which plays a crucial role in the interpretation of narrative). These elements were selected after a consideration of theorles postulated by Erich Auerbach, Northrop Frye, Fredric Jameson and Mikhail Bakhtin, as well as of the key properties of narrative as traditionally treated in Chinese scholarship on narrative. After the initial chapter, each chapter consists of a theoretical discussion on the main topic, followed by an analysis of a particular aspect of the subject as revealed in an American novel and in a Chinese novel. These subjects in elude the internal structure of narrative, fictionalization, the objectivity of language and the diversity of voices, the potentiality of language and the elosure of narrative, plot and the ordering of a narrative, and fragmentarity and the perceiving of a narrative. In theoretical discussions, the essay challenges theories proposed by Wayne Booth, Michel Foucault, Umberto Eco, Stanley Fish, Roman Jakobson, Jacques Derrida, Jonathan Culler and Tzvetan Todorov. The major texts discussed are Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, Luo Guanzhong's Three Kingdoms, William Faulkner's Absalom. Absalom!, Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber. Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia," and Liu E's The Travels of Laocan. The central idea of the research is to question such assumptions as made by Anthony Burgess in his article on the novel in The Encyelopaedia Britannica (15th ed) that "novelists, being neither poets nor philosophers, rarely originate modes of thinking and expression."

Fenimore Cooper et Edgar Poe.

Bibliographie: p. [203]-208.

Edgar Poe.

Mode of access: Internet.

Edgar Poe and his critics.

Bound in brown cloth; stamped in gold and blind; endpapers coated blue.

The fall of the house of Usher : and other tales and prose writings of Edgar Poe /

Mode of access: Internet.

E��tude me��dico-psychologique sur Edgar Poe.

"Bibliographie": p. [95]-97.

Le double et le texte : homonymes, pseudonymes et auteurs chez Dostoievski, King, Auster, Poe et Nabokov

La figure mythique du double se manifeste dans la majorit�� des cultures sous des formes arch��typales renvoyant �� l���exp��rience de la division de l���individu en positions antith��tiques ou compl��mentaires. Dans la litt��rature gothique et fantastique, le mythe est propice �� cr��er un sentiment d���angoisse et d���horreur soulignant les probl��mes et myst��res de la schize du sujet. Ce travail d���analyse propose de regrouper les r��cits de doubles selon deux cat��gories d���occurrences th��matiques en se basant sur le traitement textuel qui en est fait, soit l���apparition du double par homonymie d���une part et par pseudonymie de l���autre. Ceci m��nera ultimement �� commenter sur la perception qu���a l���auteur de lui-m��me et du processus de cr��ation. Le probl��me de la division ��tant au c��ur des balbutiements th��oriques en psychologie et en psychanalyse, une grille analytique lacanienne et post-structuraliste sera appliqu��e �� cette recherche. Les ��uvres trait��es seront New York Trilogy de Paul Auster, The Dark Half de Stephen King, William Wilson d���Edgar Allan Poe, Le Double de F��dor Dosto��evski et Despair de Vladimir Nabokov.

New glimpses of Poe,

"The chapters constituting this little book originally appeared in the Independent for September, 1900."--Proem.

Poe's Helen,

Mode of access: Internet.

Poe and the Southern literary messenger,

Mode of access: Internet.

Poe's literary battles : the critic in the context of his literary milieu /

Includes bibliography.