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Abstract Abstract: The narrative theory and the related criticism have been extended to deal with various disciplines, media and narrative forms. It for one thing offers a sufficient room for critical practice; for another promotes the formation and development of the narrative theory that comes down to some subfields of narrative studies and make us reflect on the development of narrative theory. The present narrative theory that is based on fiction entails an accommodation and opens up some subfields for the formation and development of narrative theory on the basis of theoretical potentiality and possibility. Poetic narrative theory is a case in point, which, based on the particular features of poetic text, borrows those fit for the analysis of poetic narrative from narrative theories and methods. To argue about these, three aspects are stressed in the present essay as below: cancel the supposed oppositional dichotomy between lyrical and narrative; redefine the meaning of content and form; and stress the metaphorical poetic features. It might be a good starting point for the construction of poetic narrative theory.
Key words: narrative theory and criticism; poetic narratology; textual analysis; lyric and narration; metaphorical thinking
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