List of figures
Figure 1.
Front cover and copyright page of
Challenge
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Figure 2.
Front cover and copyright page of
Tiaozhan
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Figure 1.1
Cohn’s (1999: 19) taxonomy of four familiar genres
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Figure 1.2
Matrix of life-writing
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Figure 1.3
Three modes of autobiography (Renza 1977, 1980)
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Figure 1.4
Binary oppositions in autobiography
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Figure 1.5
Chain of relationship in autobiography (Howarth 1980)
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Figure 2.1
A cline of “literariness”
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Figure 2.2
The concept of foregrounding (Short 1996: 11)
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Figure 2.3
Chain effect of style, foregrounding and defamiliarization
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Figure 2.4
A checklist of linguistic and stylistic categories
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Figure 2.5
Metafunction of language (Halliday and Matthiessen 2004)
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Figure 2.6
Integrated model of stylistic analysis
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Figure 2.7
Syntactic contrast in Example (1)
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Figure 3.1
Narrative-communicative situation (Chatman 1978: 151)
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Figure 3.2
Level of analysis in the narrative-communicative situation
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Figure 3.3
Hypothetical narrative situations in autobiography
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Figure 3.4
Narrative device and linguistic indicators of point of view
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Figure 4.1
Three constituting consciousnesses and story-telling schemata
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Figure 4.2
Deictic shifts in the narrative-communicative situation
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Figure 4.3
Cline of speech and thought presentation
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Figure 4.4
Narrative-communicative situation in
Challenge
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Figure 5.1
Narrative-communicative situation in a translated narrative (Schiavi 1996: 14)
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Figure 6.1
Constituting consciousness and the “other” consciousness in a translated narrative
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Figure 6.2
Hypothetical narrative situations I and II in a translated autobiography
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Figure 6.3
Secret “ironic” message on an unreliable narrator (Chatman 1990: 151)
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Figure 6.4
Secret “ironic” message on a fallible filter (Chatman 1990: 151)
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Figure 6.5
Narrative-communicative situation in
Tiaozhan
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