“Ways of worldmaking”
A study of narrative transmission in Henry James's The Aspern Papers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20155952 |
|---|---|
| Authors | JENNY DE REUCK |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 355-370 |
| Publication date | 1993-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387 |
| Publisher | Unisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02564719308530054 |
| OpenAlex | W2989288036 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
In this paper I argue that an understanding of modality ‐ especially when deployed in so‐called unreliable homodiegetic narration ‐ essentially requires an understanding of the referential functions of language. These functions, often performed by ¡mplicatures and, in Goodman's terms, “exemplifications”, create the “worlds” whose cognisability becomes a presupposition upon which our grasp of the relevant modality is predicated. James's novella, The Aspern Papers, offers a complex form of such a narrative transmission; one that would remain, I argue, only partially recoverable without the deployment of the text immanent postulates proffered by my theoretical exposition of the ironic modalities of unreliable homodiegetic narrative
Art · Epistemology · GRASP · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Presupposition · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence
The Act of Reading
Narrative Fiction
The Implied Reader
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
A new voice in narrative
Etching “inconscience”
Narrative and normative pattern
Deconstructive Reflections on Deconstruction
Teller-Characters and Reflector-Characters in Narrative Theory
Ideology and Speech-Act Theory
Fictional Reliability as a Communicative Problem
The Reading Process
Ways of Worldmaking
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |