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
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.
