UID:
almafu_9961294040902883
Format:
1 online resource (xix, 276 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Third edition.
ISBN:
1-108-91585-X
,
1-108-91659-7
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1-108-91392-X
Series Statement:
Cambridge introductions to literature
Content:
What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, film, and theatre, but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives. This widely used introduction, now revised and expanded in its third edition, is informed throughout by recent developments in the field and includes one new chapter. The glossary and bibliography have been expanded, and new sections explore unnatural narrative, retrograde narrative, reader-resistant narratives, intermedial narrative, narrativity, and multiple interpretation. With its lucid exposition of concepts, and suggestions for further reading, this book is not only an excellent introduction for courses focused on narrative but also an invaluable resource for students and scholars across a wide range of fields, including literature and drama, film and media, society and politics, journalism, autobiography, history, and still others throughout the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020).
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Narrative and life -- Defining narrative -- The borders of narrative -- The rhetoric of narrative -- Closure -- Narration -- Interpreting narrative -- Three ways to interpret narrative -- Adaptation across media -- Character and self in narrative -- Narrative and truth -- Narrative worlds -- Narrative contestation -- Narrative negotiation : conflict revisited -- Narrative negotiation : closure revisited.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-83078-1
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108913928
