It takes the average reader 3 hours and 33 minutes to read Narrative Progression in the Short Story by Michael J. Toolan
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
One of our most valuable capacities is our ability partly to predict what will come next in a text. But linguistic understanding of this remains very limited, especially in genres such as the short story where there is a staging of the clash between predictability and unpredictability. This book proposes that a matrix of narrativity-furthering textual features is crucial to the reader s forming of expectations about how a literary story will continue to its close. Toolan uses corpus linguistic software and methods, and stylistic and narratological theory, in the course of delineating the...
Narrative Progression in the Short Story by Michael J. Toolan is 212 pages long, and a total of 53,424 words.
This makes it 72% the length of the average book. It also has 65% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 51 minutes to read Narrative Progression in the Short Story aloud.
Narrative Progression in the Short Story is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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