Covert Progression Behind Plot Development
Katherine Mansfield’s “The Fly
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7960113 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dan Shen (0000-0002-5795-672X, Peking University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 147-175 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/03335372-2017276 |
| OpenAlex | W2323714492 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 26 |
In many fictional narratives, especially shorter ones, the plot exists in tension with a very different and powerful dynamic that runs at a deeper and hidden level throughout the text. I designate this undercurrent as “covert progression” and investigate how the implied author creates it for thematic purposes. Being characteristically ironic in nature, covert progression is first distinguished from known types of irony, then from other types of covert meaning. This is followed by an analysis of the covert progression in Katherine Mansfield’s “The Fly.” The analysis shows that to miss the covert progression is to get only a partial picture of the text’s thematics, a partial image of the characters, and a partial appreciation of the aesthetic values implied
Art · Covert · Epistemology · Irony · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Statistics · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics · Mathematics · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology
Comprehending surface reading through The Fly
Reception and Variations of Classical Narratology in Chinese Scholarship
One Focalization, Dual Progression, and Twofold Irony
Dual Narrative Progression and Metaphors for Noise in Julian Barnes’s The Noise of Time
New Progression in China's Narratology Studies
Covert Progression in Comics
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |