Literary and Linguistic Approaches to Feminist Narratology

Cover......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Narratives about theory......Page 14
Developments in narratology......Page 15
Developments in feminism......Page 19
Postmodern feminist narratology......Page 24
About this book......Page 30
Psychoanalysis, literary theory and feminism......Page 33
Female/feminine/feminist alternatives......Page 35
A linguistic approach: Narrativity and gender......Page 38
Narrativity and gender in Flesh and Blood......Page 40
Narrativity and gender in Beloved......Page 44
Narrativity and gender in Une Glossaire/a Glossary......Page 48
Narrativity in Pale Fire and Invisible Cities......Page 53
Conclusion......Page 56
Lanser’s call for feminist narratology......Page 58
Revising theories of plot......Page 62
Marking of climactic peak......Page 71
Alternative patterns of Peak marking......Page 74
Conclusion......Page 83
Moving towards sociolinguistics......Page 86
Data sample and analytic framework......Page 88
Evaluation as a structuring device......Page 91
Evaluation as a means of constructing solidarity......Page 95
Summary and explanation......Page 102
Feminism and reader response......Page 107
Hypertext, gender and reader response......Page 109
Data sample and methodology......Page 113
Reading pathways: Degrees of linearity......Page 114
Narrativity and the storyworld......Page 120
Gender and characterization in the storyworlds......Page 124
Conclusion......Page 127
On the limits of performativity......Page 129
Critical linguistics and media texts......Page 130
Data sample and narrative framework......Page 132
Narratives of progression......Page 135
Representation: Naming over time......Page 140
Narratives of stability and regression......Page 151
Conclusion......Page 155
Age as a sociolinguistic variable......Page 157
Literacy in New Zealand schools......Page 158
Data sample and methodology......Page 159
Storytelling characteristics at seven years of age......Page 161
Storytelling characteristics at ten years of age......Page 169
Cultural context and gender......Page 181
Conclusion......Page 183
The impact on narrative theory......Page 186
Concepts of gender......Page 189
The importance of context......Page 190
Looking to the future......Page 194
The question of questions......Page 198
A last word......Page 201
Notes......Page 202
Bibliography......Page 206
Index......Page 220