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Narrative Progression in the Short Story

Narrative Progression in the Short Story A Corpus Stylistics Approach

Hardback (15 Mar 2008)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Looking at why readers have such rich emotional and intellectual reactions to a story, especially in the course of reading it, this book attempts to identify the crucial bases in the language of a story's text, for the reader's real-time formatting of expectations about how the story will proceed.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780230507500
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
DEWEY: 809.31
DEWEY edition: 22
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 454g
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm