Cambridge Introduction to Narrative

Name: Cambridge Introduction to Narrative
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ISBN: 9780521659697

ISBN-10: 0521659698

ISBN-13: 9780521659697

Edition: 2001

Authors: H. Porter Abbott

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The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative 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. Porter Abbott emphasises that narrative is found not just in the arts but everywhere in the ordinary course of peoples lives. Abbott grounds his treatment of narrative by introducing it as a human phenomenon that is not restricted to literature, film, and theatre, but is found in all activities involving the representation of events in time. At the same time, he honours the fact that out of this common capability have come rich and meaningful…

Book details

List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/11/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 218
Size: 5.80" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface



Narrative and life: The universality of narrative


Narrative and time


Narrative perception



Defining narrative: The bare minimum


Story and narrative discourse


The mediation (construction) of story


Constituent and supplementary events


Narrativity



The borders of narrative: Framing narratives


Paratexts


The outer limits of narrative


Is it narrative or is it life itself?



The rhetoric of narrative: Causation


Normalization


Masterplots


Narrative rhetoric at work



Closure: Conflict: the agon


Closure and endings


Closure, suspense, and surprise


Closure at the level of expectations


Closure at the level of questions


Absence of closure



Narration: a few words on interpretation: The narrator


Voice


Focalization


Distance


Reliability


Free indirect style


Narration on stage and screen



Interpretation: The implied author


Underreading


Overreading


Gaps


Cruxes


Repetition: themes and motifs



Three ways to interpret narrative: The question of wholeness in narrative


Intentional readings


Symptomatic readings


Adaptive readings



Adaptation across media: Adaptation as creative destruction


Duration and pace


Character


Figurative language


Gaps


Focalization


Constraints of the marketplace



Character and self in narrative: Character vs. action


Flat and round characters


Can characters be real?


Types


Autobiography


Life writing as performative



Narrative contestation: A contest of narratives


A narrative lattice-work


Shadow stories


Motivation and personality


Masterplots and types


Revising cultural masterplots


Battling narratives are everywhere



Narrative negotiation


Critical reading as narrative negotiation


Closure one more time


The end of closure?


Glossary


Index