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Project

The forms and functions of back story in the novel
Code
3E007313
Duration
01 October 2013 → 22 September 2014
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of language studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of literary studies
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
literary criticism the novel narratology literary history
 
Project description
 

Back story consists of events and information situated before the fictive present, dealing with characters, events, or the story itself. This project has two goals: to develop a general theoretical framework through which back story can be analysed and to show the historical variation in the forms and functions of back story.