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Introduction |
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Jerome Bruner, "The Narrative Construction of Reality," Critical Inquiry 18 (1991), 1-21. |
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[Walter Benjamin, "Der Erzähler. Betrachtungen zum Werk Nikolai Lesskows," in: W.B.: Gesammelte Schriften, Bd. II, 2, Frankfurt/Main 1977, 438-465]. |
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Tillie Olsen, "I Stand Here Ironing" |
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Lubomir Dolezel, "Authentication," in: Heterocosmica: Fiction and Possible Worlds (1998), 145-168. |
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Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (excerpt) |
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Henry James, "A Bundle of Letters" |
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07. 06. |
Annual Conference of the German Association of American Studies |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance |
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Henry James, The Aspern Papers |
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Langston Hughes, "Why, You Reckon?" |
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Truman Capote, "My Side of the Matter" |
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Grace Paley, "Distance" |
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Joan Scott, "The Evidence of Experience," Critical Inquiry 17 (1991), 773-797 |
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Elizabeth J. Bellamy and Artemis Leontis. "A Genealogy of Experience: From Epistemology to Politics." The Yale Journal of Criticism, 6:1 (1993), 163-185. |
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Amy Tan, "The Voice From the Wall" |
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