THE VECTOR OF METODOLOGY IN FICTION STUDIES

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This study considers fiction, its certain characteristic features, principles and devices (thematic and narrative), and a number of structural elements correlated within interpretative models. The purpose of this study represents the attempt to establish a vector of methodology, i. e. an interpretative modality aimed at stipulating the direction of approach to the fictional text, and which consists of a set of methods, an ordered system of principles of research used for study in the field of such a particular concern as Fiction Studies. In this respect, my argument will thus consider the general theoretical level of analysis (a matter of literary theory) based on the structuralist narratological evaluation of fiction, as well as the practical applicability of the general principles of approach (a matter of literary criticism) regarding, in particular, the Victorian novels

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THE VECTOR OF METODOLOGY IN FICTION STUDIES

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