... the Odyssey or the Recherche is only, in a certain way, an amplification (in the rhetorical sense) of statements such as Ulysses comes home to Ithaca or Marcel becomes a writer" (Genette 30). "A narrative is a long sentence," writes Roland Barthes (84). Narratology's project is the diagramming of that sentence, the discovery of its grammar and syntax. These critical assumptions have been influential in redirecting modern formal criticism of fiction, partly because-particularly in the work of ... Near the end of Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud speculates on the origin and nature of t...

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