Making Tales: The Poetics of Wordsworth's Narrative Experiments

Bialostosky, Don (1984) Making Tales: The Poetics of Wordsworth's Narrative Experiments. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-04575-7

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Abstract

Informed by a "poetics of speech" developed from the work of the Bakhtin School, this book offers an alternative to the Aristotelian emphasis on narrative as the presentation of plot that highlights narrative as someone's relating of words, deeds, or experiences to someone else. With special attention to reported speech, it offers appreciative readings of Wordsworth's experimental narrative poems that Coleridge denigrated, readings of the poems in which Wordsworth grapples with the expectations of a "tale," and readings of the versions of Wordsworth's encounter with the discharged soldier on the high road.

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Item Type:	Book
Status:	Published
Creators/Authors:	Creators Email Pitt Username ORCID Bialostosky, Don dhb2@pitt.edu DHB2
Date:	1984
Date Type:	Publication
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication:	Chicago
Number of Pages:	208
Institution:	University of Pittsburgh
Schools and Programs:	Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > English
Refereed:	Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Wordsworth, William, narrative, theory, Bakhtin, School, Aristotle, Plato, "Simon, Lee", "Anecdote, for, Fathers", "We, Are, Seven", "Old, Man, Travelling", "The, Sailor's, Mother", "Alice, Fell", "Beggars", "Hart-Leap, Well", "Michael", "The, Discharged, Soldier"
ISBN:	0-226-04575-7
Date Deposited:	29 Jul 2009 16:21
Last Modified:	25 Aug 2017 05:11
URI:	http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2738

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