INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY INTERPRETATION. FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE NARRATIVE STRATEGIES, DISCOURSE PRESENTATION AND TROPES - Softcover

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The book is structured in four sections, as Chapter 1, Narrative Strategies, provides an overview of the major narrative strategies that can be found in literary texts, such as narration, description, dialogue, monologue or evocation. These strategies represent different techniques or modes of organizing discourse in which writers tell their stories. Chapter 2, Discourse Presentation, discusses the strategies employed by narrators in order to present other people’s speech and thought (Norgaard et al. 2010: 81), including the most common categories of speech and thought presentation (from direct speech or indirect thought to internal narration). Chapter 3, Tropes or Figures of Speech, presents a selection of ten essential tropes that are highly recurrent in literary texts, namely, epithet, hyperbole, personification, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, simile, litotes, alliteration and assonance, and irony. Chapter 4, From Theory to Practice, represents a study section which consists of a selection of literary excerpts from novels, short stories, poems, or plays accompanied by a number of questions that invite readers to apply their theoretical knowledge to the interpretation of literary texts. The list of bibliographical references placed at the end of the volume contains the critical books (over 80) and the literary works (around 100) which are quoted in the book.

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