Journal article
Dickens and the Narratography of Closure
Critical inquiry, Vol.34(3), pp.509-542
03/22/2008
DOI: 10.1086/589488
Abstract
Narratography charts how reading works to process not only the separate arcs of represented action but the tension and roughening of narrative in action. It is a term of engagement for the way people might sample and decipher that underlying excess, might enter into imaginative transference with its reticences as well as breached repressions at the level of wording itself, might let that wording tug at the thrust of story--even if it offers an intractable snag in the fabric of the supervening rhetorical design. Here, Stewart devises an imaginary narrative that springs from what goes wholly unsaid in a single Victorian novel, from what is at most inferred. Among other things, he tells that if narratography, as posited at the start, is a calibration of storyline to material sequence, another way of conceiving this is to define narratography as a reading of style for its own plot.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Dickens and the Narratography of Closure
- Creators
- Garrett Stewart
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Critical inquiry, Vol.34(3), pp.509-542
- Publisher
- University of Chicago, acting through its Press
- DOI
- 10.1086/589488
- ISSN
- 0093-1896
- eISSN
- 1539-7858
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/22/2008
- Academic Unit
- Cinematic Arts; English
- Record Identifier
- 9984397933702771
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