“And he adjusted himself to them not falling”, A Reading of Oracle Night

This paper addresses Paul Auster’s Oracle Night (2004) through the lens of storyworld theories. This approach seeks to reveal the transfictional and metaleptic dimensions of the novel while also analyzing recurrent Austerian motifs such as the figure of the writer-investigator, the porous border bet...

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Main Author: Antoine Dechêne
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Language:English
Published: Presses universitaires de Rennes 2020-06-01
Series:Revue LISA
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/11624
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“And he adjusted himself to them not falling”, A Reading of Oracle Night
Revue LISA
metalepsis
Oracle Night
storyworlds
transfictionality
metacognitive mystery tale
title “And he adjusted himself to them not falling”, A Reading of Oracle Night
title_full “And he adjusted himself to them not falling”, A Reading of Oracle Night
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title_full_unstemmed “And he adjusted himself to them not falling”, A Reading of Oracle Night
title_short “And he adjusted himself to them not falling”, A Reading of Oracle Night
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topic metalepsis
Oracle Night
storyworlds
transfictionality
metacognitive mystery tale
url https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/11624
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