Literary Fiction : the Ways We Read Narrative Literature / Geir Farner.

Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction 2. What is literary fiction? 3. The fictional communication process4. The cognitive and aesthetic dimensions of literature 5. The limits of the literary work 6. Intention and message 7. Problems related to the sender 8. The structure of the action 9. Selection 10. Voice 11. Viewpoint, focalization 12. Frequency 13. Order 14. Suspense 15. The functions of literary fiction 16. Evaluation 17. Conclusion Bibliography Index.

"Insofar as literary theory has addressed the issue of literature as a means of communication and the function of literary fiction, opinions have been sharply divided, indicating that the elementary foundations of literary theory and criticism still need clarifying. Many of the "classical" problems that literary theory has been grappling with from Aristotle to our time are still waiting for a satisfactory solution. Based on a new cognitive model of the literature as communication, Farner systematically explains how literary fiction works, providing new solutions to a wide range of literary issues, like intention, function, evaluation, delimitation of the literary work as such, fictionality, suspense, and the roles of author and narrator, along with such narratological problems as voice, point of view and duration. Covering a wide range of literary issues central to literary theory, offering new theories while also summarising the field as it stands, Literary Fiction will be a valuable guide and resource for students and scholars of the theory of literature"--