Disnarration and the Unmentioned in Fact and Fiction

‘Disnarration and the Unmentioned in Fact and Fiction is a lucid, rich, and insightful contribution to narrative poetics. It illuminates the functioning of factual and fictional storytelling.’—Gerald Prince, Professor of Romance Languages, University of P

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Marina Lambrou

Disnarration and the Unmentioned in Fact and Fiction

Marina Lambrou

Disnarration and the Unmentioned in Fact and Fiction

Marina Lambrou Department of Humanities Kingston University Surrey, UK

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To Costas and Chrystalleni Lambrou. You gave me a love of stories, a sense of wonder, a way with words. This is for you.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank everyone who has helped me develop this book whether you are aware of it or not. I would like to thank, especially, my fellow stylisticians for the numerous informal conversations about what might have been but is not, including friends and colleagues at the 2014 Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) conference in Maribor, who responded positively to my paper and gave me the impetus to develop my ideas into this book. I first discovered Tobias Wolff’s short story Bullet in the Brain at the 2013 Narrative Matters conference in Paris, so thank you too. I would like to thank the (now grown up) children of Manor Hill Greek School in North London for participating in my research and giving me their wonderful, disnarrated personal experiences, which first prompted my interest in this dimension of storytelling. I would also like to thank Palgrave for th