This paper sets out to demonstrate, by way of structural analysis, why the ostensible digressions ("heterodiegetic analepses", so termed by the French structuralist literary theorist Gerard Genette) in Willa...This paper sets out to demonstrate, by way of structural analysis, why the ostensible digressions ("heterodiegetic analepses", so termed by the French structuralist literary theorist Gerard Genette) in Willa Cather’s novel My Antonia are actually not irrelevant ramifications but in- tegral parts of a unified artistic work in its congregated effort to develop the theme of time.展开更多
This paper maintains that as a biographic novel,The Moon and Six Pence has a unique feature on its narrative techniques.From the perspective of narrative point of view,the paper applies textual analysis to make a deta...This paper maintains that as a biographic novel,The Moon and Six Pence has a unique feature on its narrative techniques.From the perspective of narrative point of view,the paper applies textual analysis to make a detailed study on the narrative structure of the novel and how this narrative structure contributes to the plot and the characterization.展开更多
文摘This paper sets out to demonstrate, by way of structural analysis, why the ostensible digressions ("heterodiegetic analepses", so termed by the French structuralist literary theorist Gerard Genette) in Willa Cather’s novel My Antonia are actually not irrelevant ramifications but in- tegral parts of a unified artistic work in its congregated effort to develop the theme of time.
文摘This paper maintains that as a biographic novel,The Moon and Six Pence has a unique feature on its narrative techniques.From the perspective of narrative point of view,the paper applies textual analysis to make a detailed study on the narrative structure of the novel and how this narrative structure contributes to the plot and the characterization.
