Negating narration, crushing communication: the nonnarrated and the disnarrated in The Lemon Table
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Narration, nonnarrated, disnarrated, communication, The Lemon Table., Narration, nonnarrated, disnarrated, communication, The Lemon TableAbstract
This paper analyzes the narrative techniques of nonnarration and disnarration employed in Barnes’ collection of short stories, The Lemon Table, and links them with one of the book’s main thematic concerns – narration as communication – or, rather, its almost complete absence.
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