Poetics Today, Volume I Number 3. Narratology I : Poetics Of Fiction

Special Issue : "Narratology I: Poetics of FICTION". There are twelve main essays, plus book reviews and other material. Serious literary analyses by international scholars. Main divisions of the articles: Theory of Narrative--truth and authenticity, fabula, semiotics, grammar of narrative; Conventions and Culture--constraints of realeme, ambivalent texts/children's literature; Poetics of Various Fictions--nouveau roman, the figure in the carpet, sacred history and the beginnings of prose fiction, the overcoded world of Solzhenicyn.