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This study is designed to help readers understand what narrative is, how it is constructed, how it acts upon us, how we act upon it, how it is transmitted, and how it changes when the medium or the cultural context change. In this indispensable guidebook, Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is f...

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Main Author: Abbott, H. Porter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Narration (Rhetoric)
Fiction > Technique.
Narration.
Roman > Technique.
Verteltheorie.
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Summary:This study is designed to help readers understand what narrative is, how it is constructed, how it acts upon us, how we act upon it, how it is transmitted, and how it changes when the medium or the cultural context change. In this indispensable guidebook, Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not only in the arts but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives.
Physical Description:xiv, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-186) and index.
ISBN:052165033X
0521659698 (pbk.)