Recent Theories of Narrative
Author: Wallace Martin
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780801493553
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Narrative Theory
Author: David Herman
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780814211861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf we were to compile a list of frequently asked questions about narrative theory, we would put the following two at or near the top: 'what is narrative theory?' and 'how do different approaches to narrative relate to each other?' This book addresses both questions and, more significantly, also demonstrates the extent to which the questions themselves are intertwined.
Theories and Narratives
Author: Alex Callinicos
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780822316459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPursuing this objective, Alex Callinicos critically confronts a number of leading attempts to reconceptualize the meaning of history, including Francis Fukuyama's rehabilitation of Hegel's philosophy of history and the postmodernist efforts of Hayden White and others to deny the existence of a past independent of our representations of it. In these cases philosophical arguments are pursued in tandem with discussions of historical interpretations of, respectively, Stalinism and the Holocaust.
Postmodern Narrative Theory
Author: Mark Currie
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2010-12-09
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1137268123
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow have developments in literary and cultural theory transformed our understanding of narrative? What has happened to narrative in the wake of poststructuralism? What is the role and function of narrative in the contemporary world? In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores these central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Postmodern Narrative Theory, Second Edition: • establishes direct links between the workings of fictional narratives and those of the non-fictional world • charts the transition in narrative theory from its formalist beginnings, through deconstruction, towards its current concerns with the social, cultural and cognitive uses of narrative • explores the relationship between postmodern narrative and postmodern theory more closely • presents detailed illustrative readings of known literary texts such as Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and now features a new chapter on Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and Slow Man. Approachable and stimulating, this is an essential introduction for anyone studying postmodernism, the theory of narrative or contemporary fiction.
Optional-Narrator Theory
Author: Sylvie Patron
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2021-02
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1496224507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwentieth-century narratology fostered the assumption, which distinguishes narratology from previous narrative theories, that all narratives have a narrator. Since the first formulations of this assumption, however, voices have come forward to denounce oversimplifications and dangerous confusions of issues. Optional-Narrator Theory is the first collection of essays to focus exclusively on the narrator from the perspective of optional-narrator theories. Sylvie Patron is a prominent advocate of optional-narrator theories, and her collection boasts essays by many prominent scholars--including Jonathan Culler and John Brenkman--and covers a breadth of genres, from biblical narrative to poetry to comics. This volume bolsters the dialogue among optional-narrator and pan-narrator theorists across multiple fields of research. These essays make a strong intervention in narratology, pushing back against the widespread belief among narrative theorists in general and theorists of the novel in particular that the presence of a fictional narrator is a defining feature of fictional narratives. This topic is an important one for narrative theory and thus also for literary practice. Optional-Narrator Theory advances a range of arguments for dispensing with the narrator, except when it can be said that the author actually "created" a fictional narrator.
Narrative Beginnings
Author: Brian Richardson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2008-12-01
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0803219385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge Eliot wrote that "man cannot do without the make-believe of a beginning." Beginnings, it turns out, can be quite unusual, complex, and deceptive. The first major volume to focus on this critical but neglected topic, this collection brings together theoretical studies and critical analyses of beginnings in a wide range of narrative works spanning several centuries and genres. The international and interdisciplinary scope of these essays, representing every major theoretical perspective--including feminist, cognitive, postcolonial, postmodern, rhetorical, ethnic, narratological, and hypert.
Narrative Theory Unbound
Author: Robyn R. Warhol
Publisher:
Published: 2016-01-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780814252031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first edited collection to bring feminist, queer, and narrative theories into direct conversation with one another, this anthology places gender and sexuality at the center of contemporary theorizing about the production, reception, forms, and functions of narrative texts.
Fictional Worlds
Author: Thomas G. Pavel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780674299665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCreated worlds may resemble the actual world, but they can just as easily be deemed incomplete, precarious, or irrelevant. Why, then, does fiction continue to pull us in and, more interesting perhaps, how? In this beautiful book Pavel provides a poetics of the imaginary worlds of fiction, their properties, and their reason for being.
Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory
Author: Marie-Laure Ryan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780253350046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this important contribution to narrative theory, Marie-Laure Ryan applies insights from artificial intelligence and the theory of possible worlds to the study of narrative and fiction. For Ryan, the theory of possible worlds provides a more nuanced way of discussing the commonplace notion of a fictional "world," while artificial intelligence contributes to narratology and the theory of fiction directly via its researches into the congnitive processes of texts and automatic story generation. Although Ryan applies exotic theories to the study of narrative and to fiction, her book maintains a solid basis in literary theory and makes the formal models developed by AI researchers accessible to the student of literature. By combining the philosophical background of possible world theory with models inspired by AI, the book fulfills a pressing need in narratology for new paradigms and an interdisciplinary perspective.
Playing at Narratology: Digital Media as Narrative Theory
Author: Daniel Punday
Publisher:
Published: 2022-12-08
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780814255506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that digital media allows us to see unresolved tensions, ambiguities, and gaps in core narrative concepts, revealing complexity and unexplored potential.
