Nature of Narrative

Name: Nature of Narrative
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ISBN: 9780195151763

ISBN-10: 0195151763

ISBN-13: 9780195151763

Edition: 4th 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Robert Scholes, Robert Kellogg, James Phelan

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For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg in the original edition offered a compelling history of the genre narrative from antiquity to the twentieth-century, even as they carried out their main task of describing and analyzing the nature of narrative's main elements: meaning, character, plot, and point of view. Their history emphasized the broad sweep of literary narrative from ancient times to the contemporary period, and it included a chapter on the oral heritage of written…

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List price: $19.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/25/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Robert Scholes is Research Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. He is the author of many books of literary theory.



Preface to the Second Edition



Preface to the Second Edition




The Narrative Tradition



The Oral Heritage of Written Narrative



The Classical Heritage of Modern Narrative



Meaning in Narrative



Character in Narrative



Plot in Narrative



Point of View in Narrative



Narrative Theory, 1966-2006: A Narrative


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index