Master Narratives

Master Narratives

Richard Gravil

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Editorial:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2019
Materia
Literatura: historia y crítica
ISBN:
9780367888244
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The contributors examine aspects of narrative technique which are crucial to interpretation, and which bring something new or distinctive into fiction. The introduction asks whether such experimentation may be driven by challenges to society’s ’master narratives’ - for instance, by a desire to circumvent the reader’s ideological defences.

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