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Structuralism and Interpretation Ernest Hemingway's Cat in Ther Ain
Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics

Analysis and Interpretation of the Realist Text: A Pluralistic Approach to Ernest Hemingway's "Cat in the Rain" Author(s): David Lodge Source: Poetics Today, Vol. 1, No. 4, Narratology II: The Fictional Text and the Reader (Summer, 1980), pp. 5-22 Published by: Duke University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1771885 . Accessed: 14/03/2011 05:14
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ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF THE REALIST TEXT
A Pluralistic Approach to Ernest Hemingway's "Cat in the Rain' * DAVID LODGE
English, Birmingham

I It is a commonplace that the systematic study of narrative was founded by Aristotle, and scarcely an exaggeration to say that little of significance

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