GENDER Narrative Time in Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad | ||
| مجلة کلية الآداب . جامعة بني سويف | ||
| Volume 17, Issue 39, June 2016, Pages 475-500 PDF (27.11 M) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jfabsu.2016.422874 | ||
| Author | ||
| Ragab S. Ali, Ph.D. Ali* | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This paper is Intended to reveal some of the features of narrative time in A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011) by Jennifer Egan (born 1962). In 2011, this novel has received many prestigious prizes including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Egan's novel has been applauded by many critics such as Bill Adams who writes that "Egan is a master of time management, one of the most powerful tools a novelist has (Bill Adams)." Since this paper is an attempt to unfold some of the features of narrative time in A Visit from the Goon Squad (later will be referred to as Goon Squad). | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Key Words: Narratology; analepsis (flashback); prolepsis (flash-forward); Goon Squad; narrative; anachronism; ellipsis | ||
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