Diversity in Narration and Writing: The Novel

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The essays in this volume focus on different prose and audiovisual narratives and their academic and cultural significance as seen in the twenty-first century. Their diverse interpretations of the novel as a genre provide a current academic overview on the variety of interpretive cultures and traditions. Divided into three sections, the book consciously takes an international perspective in both narrative theory and novel studies in order to deepen the reader’s understanding of classic American and European authors including Gustave Flaubert, Lewis Carroll, James Joyce, Doris Lessing, Jack London, J. M. Coetzee, and David Lodge. In addition, it also offers a profound contribution to international scholarship as it covers works of classic and contemporary Hungarian and Central European writers that have not been discussed in English before. With its unprecedented insights into the depth and diversity of narrative prose traditions, the book will inspire innovative approaches to the concept of the novel in European academic criticism today. Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Diversity in Academic Discourses on Novel Studies and Narrative Theory in and beyond Central Europe • Judit Mudriczki Intermediality and Narrative Theory From “Madame Bovary c’est moi” to “Emma is Us:” Focalisation as Political Tool • 0Mieke Bal Narrative and Speed • Tibor Gintli Three Central European Writers on the Novel: Milan Kundera, Béla Hamvas, Géza Ottlik • Kornélia Horváth Heteroglossia and Inner Monologue: Linguistic Events as Character Traits in Ulysses • András Kappanyos Dream Narratives throughout the Centuries • János Szávai Narrative Discourses in Classic and Contemporary English Fiction Diverted from Wonderland: Multilevel Trauma Narratives of Lewis Carroll • Antal Bókay The Problem of Counterpart and Narrative Parallelism in Prose Language: Jack London’s “The Law of Life” and “Morganson’s Finish” • Gábor Kovács The Voice of the Community in Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing • Nóra Séllei Narration, Colonisation, Intertextuality: J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands • Angelika Reichmann Campus as a Non-Place in the Novels of David Lodge • Yuliia Terentieva Bran Remembers: The Narrative Process of A Game of Thrones • Nikolett Sipos “Like People in a Book:” Jack and a Modern-Day Captivity Narrative • Noémi Albert Narrative Discourses and the Hungarian Legacy of Fiction Narrative World and Descriptive Power: Ambiguity and Integration in Dezső Kosztolányi’s Skylark • László Bengi The Perception and Representation of Paris in Modern Hungarian Fiction by Gyula Illyés, András Hevesi, and Jolán Földes • Mihály Benda The Thicket of Memory: Thomas Wolfe and Géza Ottlik • Sarolta Osztroluczky Wonders of Tellinf—Telling Wonders: Sándor Márai’s The Blood of San Gennaro • Zoltán Kulcsár-Szabó Figures of Absence and the Poetics of Silence in the Works of Kertész, Kafka, and Camus • Dorottya Szávai The God of Auschwitz: A Reading of Imre Kertész’s Kaddish for an Unborn Child inspired by Northrop Frye’s Vision of Literature • Sára Tóth Hungarian Voices of the Subaltern in the Interruption of Contemporary Narrative Discourses by Krisztina Tóth, Kriszta Bódis, and Agáta Gordon • Edit Zsadányi Contributors Index