Our Very Own Adventure
Towards the Poetics of the Short Story
$54.99
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2011
Summary
Our Very Own Adventure demonstrates the main convention of the short story; specifically the heightened reader response that Carolyne Lee terms ‘narratorial presence’. The intensity of the short story encourages readers to appropriate the fictive world, as rendered through one or more represented subjectivities in the narrative. Lee argues that this narratorial presence is the enabling effect of the tale’s telling. Each chapter examines a group of stories (by authors such as William Faulkner, James Joyce, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ray Bradbury and Alice Munro) that share basic similarities, but where the narratorial presence differs due to differing techniques.Our Very Own Adventure reveals just how a story yields its meanings to a reader.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522858679 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522858678 |
| Author: | Carolyne Lee |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2011 |
| Weight: | 361g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 138mm x 211mm |
| Series: | Academic Monograph |
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Carolyne Lee
Carolyne Lee is a writer, teacher and researcher who has written for newspapers, books, e-zines, educational curricula, scholarly journals and blogs. She has taught writing for more than twenty years, and in that time has seen many of her students break into print (and pixels), gain good jobs in the media and in other organisations, and even become teachers themselves. She is a lecturer, as well as coordinator of writing subjects in the discipline of Media and Communications, in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Power Prose and co-editor of Who’d Be a Mother?
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