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Disnarration and the Unmentioned in Fact and Fiction

Disnarration and the Unmentioned in Fact and Fiction

Lambrou, Marina

Hardcover

General ReferenceLinguisticsGeneral Science

ISBN10: 1137507772
ISBN13: 9781137507778
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: Jan 14 2016
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
In this book Marina Lambrou explores the dimension of narrative storytelling described as 'the disnarrated' - events that do not happen but which are referred to - across three genres of texts: personal narratives; news stories; and fiction (literary and film). The book begins by asking why such disnarrated narratives are nevertheless considered tellable. It moves on to examine the pervasiveness of this phenomenon in news reports about near misses and the shared personal narratives about dangerous experiences, where truth is expected to be central their telling. It further discusses how disnarration is generated in counterfactual what if? scenarios in fiction where characters follow alternative, forked paths with fascinating unexpected consequences. This engaging work offers original insights to anyone interested in storytelling and will appeal in particular to scholars of language and literature, stylistics, narratology, media, film and journalism.

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