Some Narratological Moves and Their Effect in End of Alice

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

8 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

08/07/2007

Category :

Philosophy & literature

Sub category :

Literature

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Summary :

Introduction
Chappy's projections about the Correspondent
1. What is real and what is not real
2. The Correspondent narrative ENP
3. Another subnarrative about the Correspondent
The Correspondent ENP and the girl's home life
The Correspondent's childhood sexual relations with a boy
The Correspondent and her boy
1. The invitation for dinner
2. Going from a verbal to a physical relationship
Conclusion

Abstract

Let it be known that in end of alice there is no ANP, only an ENP, and the ENP is the time during which Chappy is imprisoned. The "prison" time moves forward steadily and occasionally will jump backward in an analepsis to, roughly, two points in the narrator's past. The first analeptic point is that of Chappy as a young boy. The second analeptic point is that of Chappy preprison, at about 30 years old. Both of these times move slightly forward in themselves. The ENP "prison" time does not seem to cast backward homodiegetically-that is, we never are taken into a scene in which Chappy is a prison newcomer. He does describe such a time, but we are never taken there narratively.