Eventfulness in British Fiction (English, Peter Hühn | Markus Kempf | Katrin Kroll)

About the Book

An event, defined as the decisive turn, the surprising point in the plot of a narrative, constitutes its tellability, the motivation for reading it. This book describes a framework for a narratological definition of eventfulness and its dependence on the historical, socio-cultural and literary context. A series of fifteen analyses of British novels and tales, from late medieval and early modern times to the late 20th century, demonstrates how thi…

ISBN: 9783110213645