Format:
Online-Ressource (305 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
ISBN:
9781135049706
Series Statement:
The New Critical Idiom
Content:
Human beings have constantly told stories, presented events and placed the world into narrative form. This activity suggests a very basic way of looking at the world, yet, this book argues, even the most seemingly simple of stories is embedded in a complex network of relations. Paul Cobley traces these relations, considering the ways in which humans have employed narrative over the centuries to 're-present' time, space and identity.This second, revised and fully updated edition of the successful guidebook to narrative covers a range of narrative forms and their historical development from earl
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Narrative; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 In the beginning: the end; Story, plot and narrative; Sequence; Space; Time; Phylogeny and ontogeny; 2 Early narrative; Narrative and history; Orality, literacy and narrative; Universality and narrative; Narrative and identity; Hellenic and Hebraic foundations; Hybridity and the Western tradition; A voyage to the self; 3 The rise and rise of the novel; Mimesis; Aristotelian mimesis; Imitation, quotation and identity; Epic, identity and the mixed mode
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Questioning the voice in the Middle AgesThe low form of the romance and the rise of the novel; The triple rise thesis and beyond; Instruction, telling and narrative mode; 4 Realist representation; Secretaries to the nineteenth century; Battles over realism; Middlemarch and 'classic realism'; Omniscient narration; Realism and the voices of narrative; Narrative with dirt under its fingernails; 5 Beyond realism; Identity and the analysis of Heart of Darkness; Imperialism and repression; Imperialism and sexuality; Narrative, imperialism and the conflict of Western identity
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The reader and the narrativeNarrative levels; 6 Modernism and the cinema; Writing in light; The cinema and modernism; Just another 'realism'?; 7 Postmodernism; 'Meta' levels; History; The decline of the 'grand narrative'; New technologies; 8 In the end: the beginning; Narrative entertainment now; Reading narrative; Diversity and genres; Closure, verisimilitude and the narrative sign; The future of the narrative sign; 9 What is narrative?; Narrative in social science; Narrative and cognition; Narrative and identity revisited; Narrative modelling; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415834438
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Narrative
Language:
English
Keywords:
Erzählung
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Narrativität
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Electronic books
Author information:
Cobley, Paul 1963-
