Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-184) and index.
Preface; 1. The Story within the Novel; 2. Don Quixote and Sancho Learn Each Other's Language: Expedient Manipulations of Genre and Enchantment; 3. Narrative Pleasures and Inhibitions: The Eighteenth-Century English Novel; 4. The Realist Agenda: Metafiction and Romance Swept under the Carpet; 5. The Rhetoric of Anxiety in Conrad's Lord Jim; 6. Interactive Fictions in the Contemporary Novel; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Arguing that genre must play a role in our study of narrative fiction, this tour of the novel examines interactive storytelling scenes in which characters argue about how to tell a tale that meets their respective social and aesthetic expectations. Through intense readings of interactive storytelling scenes in works spanning the 17th through 20th centuries, Halevi-Wise demonstrates how dramatized arguments about storytelling open a window on social and generic dilemmas affecting the narrative of each novel at the time of its composition. Examined in detail are Cervantes' Don Quixote, Sterne's.
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