Pronouns in Literature Positions and Perspectives in Language /
'Jakobson taught us to think of pronouns as shifters, but this volume makes it clearer than ever how very shifty they are. Read these essays to see how much hinges on them in plays, poems and prose narratives both natural and unnatural.' - Brian McHale, The Ohio State University, USA and E...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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| ISBN: | 9781349953172 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Positions and Perspectives on Pronouns in Literature: The State of the Subject; Alison Gibbons and Andrea Macrae
- 2. "I am thy father's spirit": The First-Person Pronoun and the Rhetoric of Identity in Hamlet; Katie Wales
- 3. "We have tomorrow bright before us like a flame": Pronouns, Enactors, and Cross-Writing in The Dream Keeper and Other Poems; Marcello Giovanelli
- 4. Positioning the Reader in Post-Arpartheid Literature of Trauma: I and You in Zoë Wicomb's David's Story; Andrea Macrae
- 5. Autonarration, I, and odd address in Ben Lerner's Autofictional Novel 10:04; Alison Gibbons
- 6. Placements and Functions of Brief Second-Person Passages in Fiction; Joshua Parker
- 7. On the Interpretive Effects of Double Perspective in Genitive Constructions; Helen de Hoop and Kim Schreurs
- 8. They-Narratives; Jan Alber
- 9. The observing we in literary representations of neglect and social alienation: Types of narrator involvement in Janice Galloway's "Scenes from the life no. 26: The community and the senior citizen" and Jon McGregor's Even the Dogs; Catherine Emmott
- 10. Let Us Tell You Our Story: We-Narratives and its Pronominal Peculiarities; Monika Fludernik
- 11. Multi-Teller and Multi-Voiced Stories: The Poetics and Politics of Pronouns; Marina Grishakova
- 12. Pronouns in Literary Fiction as Inventive Discourse; Henrik Skov Nielsen
- 13. Postscript: Unusual Voices and Multiple Identities; Brian Richardson
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