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Author : Wallace Martin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801493553
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (935 download)
Download or read book Recent Theories of Narrative written by Wallace Martin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Herman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814211861
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (118 download)
Download or read book Narrative Theory written by David Herman and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If 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.
Author : Mari Hatavara
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317524616
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Narrative Theory, Literature, and New Media written by Mari Hatavara and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an interdisciplinary approach to narrative, this book investigates storyworlds and minds in narratives across media, from literature to digital games and reality TV, from online sadomasochism to oral history databases, and from horror to hallucinations. It addresses two core questions of contemporary narrative theory, inspired by recent cognitive-scientific developments: what kind of a construction is a storyworld, and what kind of mental functioning can be embedded in it? Minds and worlds become essential facets of making sense and interpreting narratives as the book asks how story-internal minds relate to the mind external to the storyworld, that is, the mind processing the story. With essays from social scientists, literary scholars, linguists, and scholars from interactive media studies answering these topical questions, the collection brings diverse disciplines into dialogue, providing new openings for genuinely transdisciplinary narrative theory. The wide-ranging selection of materials analyzed in the book promotes knowledge on the latest forms of cultural and social meaning-making through narrative, necessary for navigating the contemporary, mediatized cultural landscape. The combination of theoretical reflection and empirical analysis makes this book an invaluable resource for scholars and advanced students in fields including literary studies, social sciences, art, media, and communication.
Author : Alex Callinicos
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822316459
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Theories and Narratives written by Alex Callinicos and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuing 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.
Author : Mark Currie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137268123
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Postmodern Narrative Theory written by Mark Currie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How 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.
Author : Sylvie Patron
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496224507
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Optional-Narrator Theory written by Sylvie Patron and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth-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.
Author : Peer F. Bundgaard
Publisher : Automatic Press Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788792130426
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Narrative Theories and Poetics written by Peer F. Bundgaard and published by Automatic Press Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative Theories and Poetics: 5 Questions is a collection of short interviews based on five provoking questions presented to some of the most influential and prominent scholars in these fields. They present us with their views on narrative theories and poetics, its aim, scope, use, the future direction of the fields and how their work fits in these respects.
Author : Brian Richardson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803219385
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Narrative Beginnings written by Brian Richardson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George 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.
Author : Thomas G. Pavel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674299665
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Fictional Worlds written by Thomas G. Pavel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created 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.
Author : Lee Roy Beach
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527581632
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book The Theory of Narrative Thought written by Lee Roy Beach and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned naturalist, Loren Eisely, observed that we humans have given up the “certainty of the animal that what it senses is exactly there in the shape the eye beholds.” The big question is, what did we get in return? This book provides a convincing answer to this question, arguing that, instead of recording reality, your brain uses your experience to create a story, a narrative, about how what happened to you in the past led to what is happening to you now. This narrative is your private reality. The book continues by showing how replacing recorded reality with private narrative enabled humans to anticipate the fundamentally unknowable immediate and remote future and expose potential threats. It then shows how private narrative enabled complex thought and communication with others. Drawing upon a wide range of research, the book provides a stimulating new way of viewing human experience, thinking, communicating, and action.
Author : Marie-Laure Ryan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253350046
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory written by Marie-Laure Ryan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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.
Author : Robyn R. Warhol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814252031
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Narrative Theory Unbound written by Robyn R. Warhol and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.
Author : Ming Dong Gu
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 0791481484
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Chinese Theories of Fiction written by Ming Dong Gu and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative work, Ming Dong Gu examines Chinese literature and traditional Chinese criticism to construct a distinctly Chinese theory of fiction and places it within the context of international fiction theory. He argues that because Chinese fiction, or xiaoshuo, was produced in a tradition very different from that of the West, it has formed a system of fiction theory that cannot be adequately accounted for by Western fiction theory grounded in mimesis and realism. Through an inquiry into the macrocosm of Chinese fiction, the art of formative works, and theoretical data in fiction commentaries and intellectual thought, Gu explores the conceptual and historical conditions of Chinese fiction in relation to European and world fiction. In the process, Gu critiques and challenges some accepted views of Chinese fiction and provides a theoretical basis for fresh approaches to fiction study in general and Chinese fiction in particular. Such masterpieces as the Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase) and the Hongloumeng (The Story of the Stone) are discussed at length to advance his notion of fiction and fiction theory.
Author : Tory Young
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000346153
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Queer and Feminist Theories of Narrative written by Tory Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues for the importance of narrative theories which consider gender and sexuality through the analysis of a diverse range of texts and media. Classical Narratology, an allegedly neutral descriptive system for features of narrative, has been replaced by a diverse set of theories which are attentive to the contexts in which narratives are composed and received. Issues of gender and sexuality have, nevertheless, been sidelined by new strands which consider, for example, cognitive, transmedial, national or historical inflections instead. Through consideration of texts including the MTV series Faking It and the papers of a nineteenth-century activist, Queer and Feminist Theories of Narrative heeds the original call of feminist narratologists for the consideration of a broader and larger corpus of material. Through analysis of issues including the popular representation of lesbian desire, the queer narrative voice, invisibility and power in the digital age, embodiment and cognitive narratology, reading and racial codes, this book argues that a named strand of narrative theory which employs feminist and queer theories as intersectional vectors is contemporary and urgent. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Textual Practice.
Author : Daniel Punday
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814255506
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Playing at Narratology: Digital Media as Narrative Theory written by Daniel Punday and published by . This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that digital media allows us to see unresolved tensions, ambiguities, and gaps in core narrative concepts, revealing complexity and unexplored potential.
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Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 : 9401208395
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Short Story Theories written by and published by Brill. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective problematizes different aspects of the renewal and development of the short story. The aim of this collection is to explore the most recent theoretical issues raised by the short story as a genre and to offer theoretical and practical perspectives on the form. Centering as it does on specific authors and on the wider implications of short story poetics, this collection presents a new series of essays that both reinterpret canonical writers of the genre and advance new critical insights on the most recent trends and contemporary authors. Theorizations about genre reflect on different aspects of the short story from a multiplicity of perspectives and take the form of historical and aesthetic considerations, gender-centered accounts, and examinations that attend to reader-response theory, cognitive patterns, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, postcolonial studies, postmodern techniques, and contemporary uses of minimalist forms. Looking ahead, this collection traces the evolution of the short story from Chaucer through the Romantic writings of Poe to the postmodern developments and into the twenty-first century. This volume will prove of interest to scholars and graduate students working in the fields of the short story and of literature in general. In addition, the readability and analytical transparence of these essays make them accessible to a more general readership interested in fiction.
Author : David Herman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781575864686
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (646 download)
Download or read book Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences written by David Herman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
