1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784486003321

Autore

Coste Didier

Titolo

Narrative as communication [[electronic resource] /] / Didier Coste ; foreword by Wlad Godzich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1989

ISBN

0-8166-8296-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (394 p.)

Collana

Theory and history of literature ; ; v. 64

Disciplina

808/.0014

Soggetti

Discourse analysis, Literary

Discourse analysis, Narrative

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. The Nature and Purpose of Narratology; 2. The Structure and Formation of Narrative Meaning; 3. Narrative and Verbal Art: Literariness in Communication; 4. A Manmade Universe? or, The Question of Fictionality; 5. Who's Who and Who Does What in the Tale Told; 6. Voices: Knowing, Telling, and Showing It or Not; 7. Binding and Unfolding: on Narrative Syntax; 8. Narrative Economy: A Dissident Approach to Logic and Necessity; 9. Narrative within Genres and Media; 10. What Tales Tell Us to Do and Think, and How (Narrative and Didactic Constructions of Meaning)

NotesBibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The first major treatise on narrative and narrative theory to make use of all the analytic tools developed in the last two decades.