A companion to narrative theory /
The 35 original essays in A Companion to Narrative Theory constitute the best available introduction to this vital and contested field of humanistic enquiry. The essays represent all the major critical approaches to narrative - narratological, rhetorical, feminist, post-structuralist, historicist -...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
| Published: |
Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2005.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
33. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The 35 original essays in A Companion to Narrative Theory constitute the best available introduction to this vital and contested field of humanistic enquiry. The essays represent all the major critical approaches to narrative - narratological, rhetorical, feminist, post-structuralist, historicist - and investigate and debate the relations among them. In addition, they stretch the boundaries of the field by considering narratives in different disciplines, such as law and medicine, and in a variety of media, including film, music, and painting. The volume is divided into six parts: competing accounts of the history of the field; examinations of recurrent problems; suggestions for theoretical revisions and innovations; explorations of the relations among form, history, politics, and ethics; analyses of the way narrative operates in different disciplines and in media beyond the written word; and speculations about the future of narrative and of narrative theory.; At the same time, it offers provocative analyses of a wide range of works, both canonical and popular, from the Bible through novels by Dickens, Woolf, and Arundhati Roy on to Bernard Herrmann's film music and the action paintings of Jackson Pollock. Among its contributors are many of the leading figures in the field, including such early pioneers as Wayne C. Booth, Seymour Chatman, J. Hillis Miller, and Gerald Prince. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 571 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780470996935 0470996935 140515196X 9781405151962 9781405114769 1405114762 9781405165037 1405165030 1280285990 9781280285998 1782686223 9781782686224 9786610285990 6610285993 |