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I Met Myself Coming and Going: Co(?)-Referential Noun Phrases and Point of View in Time Travel Stories

Mary Ellen Ryder

Boise State University, USA, mryder{at}boisestate.edu

This article explores the way characters are tracked in two time travel stories by Robert Heinlein, `By His Bootstraps' and `All You Zombies -', using Emmott's (1997) model of narrative comprehension. The analysis shows the contributions made by Emmott's model in explaining an author's choice of devices to aid or obstruct the reader's identification of characters. In addition, a minor extension to Emmott's theory is proposed to account for some aspects of the style in `All You Zombies -'.

Key Words: character • focalization • Heinlein, Robert • narrative comprehension • noun phrases • science fiction • thought presentation

Language and Literature, Vol. 12, No. 3, 213-232 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/09639470030123003
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