Recent Theories of NarrativeCornell University Press, 1986 - 242 páginas This book ranges over the entitle spectrum of recent theories of narrative to show how they have altered our understanding not only of fiction but of nonfictional forms such as biography and historical writing. |
Índice
Preface | 7 |
Introduction | 15 |
From Novel to Narrative | 31 |
From Realism to Convention | 57 |
Preliminary Problems | 81 |
A Comparison of Methods | 107 |
Points of View on Point of View | 130 |
Communication | 152 |
Reading | 162 |
Metafiction Fiction | 173 |
What Is Fiction? | 181 |
What Is Narrative? | 187 |
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actants action analysis argue Aristotle Bakhtin Barthes beginning Bertha Bliss causality century chapter character concept consciousness conventions create critics Culler cultural defamiliarization defined discourse discussed dramatic E. M. Forster epic example explain fact fiction first-person formalists Frye functions Genette genres Gérard Genette grammatical person happened Hemingway's Henry James hero heteroglossia husband identify implied author interpretation involved John Barth kinds language linguistic literary literature meaning metafiction methods Miss Fulton motifs myths narration narrative structure narrative theory narrator's novel novelists oral parody past patterns plot point of view present Propp prose psychoanalysis reader reading realism reality representation romance Russian formalists Scholes and Kellogg sense sentence sequence Shipman's Tale Shklovsky social story structuralists syuzhet tale techniques tell temporal tense theories of narrative theorists third-person third-person narration thought tion tive Tomashevsky traditional truth understanding Victor Shklovsky wife words writer