Synopses & Reviews
The role of models in works of literature has been largely overlooked by literary scholars.
Models of Narrative undertakes to focus on this often central role. In analyzing the concept and practice of literary modeling, Danow leads the reader on a search for order, patterns, and familiar concepts in literary works. Addressing a wide array of literary works by such luminaries as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Garcia Marquez and Hawthorne, Danow examines these works in terms of 'narrative universals' such as time, space and speech. In addition, he distinguishes between theory and practice, treating the notion of literal and figural relations and offering concrete literary criticism.
Review
"Danow manages to provide the reader with a better understanding of literary texts through an extensive treatment of literary modelling by analysing the presence of time, space and dialogism in novels and short stories." --
Canadian Review of Comparative Literature Table of Contents
PART 1: LITERARY MODELS: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS - PART 2: TEMPORAL RELATIONS - Linear Perspectives (Dostoevsky and Tolstoy) - The Moment of Revelation: Epiphany in Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak) - Memory as Duration: Love in the Time of Cholera (Garc'a M rquez) - PART 3: SPATIAL RELATIONS - Convergence in The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov) - Divergence in The Minister's Black Veil (Hawthorne) - The Figural Labyrinth in The General in His Labyrinth (Garc'a M rquez) - PART 4: DIALOGIC RELATIONS - A Poetics of Silence (Dostoevsky, O'Connor, Endo) - The Non-Dialogic Encounter: Red Cavalry (Babel) - Supra-Dialogue: Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak) - PART 5: LITERARY MODELS: PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS - Notes - Works Cited