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Cognitive narratology, rhetorical narratology, and interpretive disagreement: a response to Alan Palmer's analysis of Enduring Love.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Alan Palmer's essay, "Attributions of Madness in Ian McEwan's Enduring Love," amply demonstrates how productive his cognitive approach to narrative can be. His focus on aspectuality and on intermental and intramental thinking leads to many sharp insights into Joe Rose's relationships with ...
Acting figuratively, telling tropically. Figures of insanity in Gunter Grass's Die Blechtrommel.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Gunter Grass's bestselling novel Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum) was originally published in 1959 and rapidly enjoyed a vivid and enthusiastic reception in the non-German world, where the comic vicissitudes of an adolescent midget were read as an accomplished allegory representing the ...
Capturing Capgras: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Richard Powers's novel, The Echo Maker (2006), tells the story of Mark Schluter, a young man of 27 who is nearly killed in an accident with his truck. He recovers but seems to be suffering from Capgras, a condition in which the patient believes that some of his loved ones have been ...
Ira Nadel. David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Ira Nadei. David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre. New York: Palgrave, 2008. pp. xviii + 278. Hb. $26.95. ISBN 0 312 29344 5. "How?," "good luck," and "is he insured?" were some of the more predictable responses to news that Ira Nadei, distinguished chronicler of the lives of (among ...
Norman N. Holland. Literature and the Brain.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Norman N. Holland. Literature and the Brain. Gainesville, FL: The PsyArt Foundation, 2009. x + 458 pp. Norman Holland has been one of the major psychological literary theorists since the 1960s. His early writings achieved their fullest expression in Dynamics of Literary Response ...