Cambridge Companion to Narrative

Name: Cambridge Companion to Narrative
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ISBN: 9780521673662

ISBN-10: 0521673666

ISBN-13: 9780521673662

Edition: 2007

Authors: David Herman

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The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to-face interaction, to literary fiction. Each chapter presents a survey of scholarly approaches to topics such as character, dialogue, genre or language, shows how those approaches can be brought to bear on a relatively well-known illustrative example, and indicates directions for further research.…

Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/19/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 325
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English




Preliminaries



Introduction




Toward a definition of narrative




Studying Narrative Fiction




Story, plot, and narration




Time and space




Character




Dialogue




Focalization




Genre




Other Narrative Media (A Selection)



Conversational storytelling




Drama and narrative




Film and television narrative




Narrative and digital media




Further Contexts for Narrative Study



Gender




Rhetoric/ethics




Ideology




Language




Cognition, emotion, and consciousness




Identity/alterity



Further reading


Glossary


Index