From Unnatural Narrative to Unnatural Reading: A Review of A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative

[...]some in this last category suggest that the unnatural is not so much an authorial gambit, but actually comprises a kind of reading practice, a "denaturalizing" approach that might help us interpret even the most realist texts. [...]unnatural narrative theory does a brave and exciting...

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Published in:Style 2014-12, Vol.48 (4), p.629
Main Author: Kilgore, Christopher D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Dick, Philip K
Narratives
Poetics
Readers
Theory
Trauma
Verbal communication
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Summary:[...]some in this last category suggest that the unnatural is not so much an authorial gambit, but actually comprises a kind of reading practice, a "denaturalizing" approach that might help us interpret even the most realist texts. [...]unnatural narrative theory does a brave and exciting thing when it suggests that defamiliarization of the familiar in real life, defamiliarization of the conventional in literature, and the posing of strange, possibly uninterpretable events are all of a piece, and form part of the same pattern.
ISSN:0039-4238
0039-4238
2374-6629
DOI:10.5325/style.48.4.629