The Cambridge introduction to narrative
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 narr...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge u.a
Cambridge Univ. Press
2008
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| Ausgabe: | 2. ed. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Cambridge introductions to literature
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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 ; Hypertext narrative ; Is it narrative or is it life itself? -- The rhetoric of narrative. 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 ; The absence of closure -- Narration. A few words on interpretation ; The narrator ; Does the narrator narrate everything? ; Voice ; Focalization ; Distance ; Reliability ; Free indirect style ; Narration on stage and screen -- Interpreting narrative. The implied author ; Underreading ; 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 and truth. Fiction and nonfiction ; How do we know if it's fiction or nonfiction ; Historical fact in fiction ; The truth of fiction -- Narrative worlds. Narrative space ; The mind of the storyworld ; Multiple worlds : forking-path narratives ; Multiple worlds : narrative metalepsis -- 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. Narrative negotiation ; Critical reading as narrative negotiation ; Closure, one more time ; The end of closure? |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. 223 - 227 Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke First published 2002 Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Beschreibung: | XVII, 252 S. Ill. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780521715157 978-0-521-71515-7 9780521887199 978-0-521-88719-9 |