A New Reading of the Covert Progression in Alice Munro’s “Something I have been to Tell You”
Frontiers in Science and Engineering, (2024), Vol.4, No.8, pp.31-33
Published: August 21, 2024
DOI: 10.54691/qf4d8r49
Abstract
Professor Dan Shen calls the hidden dynamic that complicates the audience’s response in various ways covert progression which has its own development orbit independent from plot development, creating a thought-provoking reading effect. This paper aims to penetrate into the cover progression of Alice Munro’s short story “Something I’ve been meaning to tell you” and illustrate the the covert progression in the story by analyzing its narrative code and stylistic choices.
Keywords:
Covert Progression; Narrative Analysis; Stylistic Choices.
APA Citation:
Wuhui Shang (2024). A New Reading of the Covert Progression in Alice Munro’s “Something I have been to Tell You”. Frontiers in Science and Engineering, 4(8), 31-33. https://doi.org/10.54691/qf4d8r49
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- Gerard Genette: Narrative Discourse Revisited (Cornell University Press, America 1990).
- Dan Shen: Narratology and the Stylistics of Fiction (Peking University Press, China 2004).
- David Herman, Manfred Jahn, Marie-Laure Ryan: Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory(Routledge, England 2004).
- Alice Munro: Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories (Vintage, England 2004).