In this book Marina Lambrou explores the dimension of narrative storytelling described as ‘the disnarrated’ – events that do not happen but which are referred to – across three genres of texts: personal narratives; news stories; and fiction (literary and film). The book begins by asking why such disnarrated narratives are nevertheless considered tellable. It moves on to examine the pervasiveness of this phenomenon in news reports about “near misses” and the shared personal narr...
Innehållsförteckning
Chapter 1: Introduction to disnarration and the unmentioned in fact and fiction.- Chapter 2: Telling stories.- Chapter 3: Disnarration and the unmentioned in fa...
Om författaren
Marina Lambrou is Associate Professor in English Language and Linguistics at Kingston University, UK. She has published widely in the areas of narratology and lit...