A companion to narrative theory [[electronic resource] /] / edited by James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (594 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.923
• Soggetto topico: Narration (Rhetoric); Rhetoric; Narració (Retòrica); Retòrica
• Soggetto genere / forma: Llibres electrònics
• Altri autori: PhelanJames <1951-> RabinowitzPeter J. <1944->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A Companion to Narrative Theory; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Narrative Theory; Prologue; 1 Histories of Narrative Theory (I): A Genealogy of Early Developments; 2 Histories of Narrative Theory (II): From Structuralism to the Present; 3 Ghosts and Monsters: On the (Im)Possibility of Narratingthe History of Narrative Theory; PART I New Light on Stubborn Problems; 4 Resurrection of the Implied Author: Why Bother?; 5 Reconceptualizing Unreliable Narration: SynthesizingCognitive and Rhetorical Approaches ; 6 Authorial Rhetoric, Narratorial (Un)Reliability,Divergent Readings: Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata7 Henry James and ''Focalization,'' or Why James Loves Gyp; 8 What Narratology and Stylistics Can Do for Each Other; 9 The Pragmatics of Narrative Fictionality; PART II Revisions and Innovations; 10 Beyond the Poetics of Plot: Alternative Forms of NarrativeProgression and the Multiple Trajectories of Ulysses; 11 They Shoot Tigers, Don't They?: Path and Counterpointin The Long Goodbye; 12 Spatial Poetics and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things ; 13 The ''I'' of the Beholder: Equivocal Attachments and theLimits of Structuralist Narratology14 Neonarrative; or, How to Render the Unnarratable inRealist Fiction and Contemporary Film; 15 Self-consciousness as a Narrative Feature and Force:Tellers vs. Informants in Generic Design; 16 Effects of Sequence, Embedding, and Ekphrasis in Poe's''The Oval Portrait''; 17 Mrs. Dalloway's Progeny: The Hours as Second-degree Narrative; PART III Narrative Form and its Relationship to History, Politics, and Ethics; 18 Genre, Repetition, Temporal Order: SomeAspects of Biblical Narratology ; 19 Why Won't Our Terms Stay Put? The NarrativeCommunication Diagram Scrutinized and Historicized20 Gender and History in Narrative Theory: The Problem of RetrospectiveDistance in David Copperfield and Bleak House; 21 Narrative Judgments and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative:Ian McEwan's Atonement; 22 The Changing Faces of Mount Rushmore: Collective Portraiture andParticipatory National Heritage; 23 The Trouble with Autobiography: Cautionary Notesfor Narrative Theorists; 24 On a Postcolonial Narratology ; 25 Modernist Soundscapes and the Intelligent Ear:An Approach to Narrative Through Auditory Perception26 In Two Voices, or: Whose Life/Death/Story Is It, Anyway?; PART IV Beyond Literary Narrative; 27 Narrative in and of the Law; 28 Second Nature, Cinematic Narrative, the HistoricalSubject, and Russian Ark; 29 Narrativizing the End: Death and Opera; 30 Music and/as Cine-Narrative or: Ceci n'est pas un leitmotif; 31 Classical Instrumental Music and Narrative; 32 ''I'm Spartacus!''; 33 Shards of a History of Performance Art: Pollockand Namuth Through a Glass, Darkly; Epilogue ; 34 Narrative and Digitality: Learning to Think With the Medium
• Sommario/riassunto: The 35 original essays in A Companion to Narrative Theory constitute the best available introduction to this vital and contested field of humanistic enquiry.Comprises 35 original essays written by leading figures in the fieldIncludes contributions from pioneers in the field such as Wayne C. Booth, Seymour Chatman, J. Hillis Miller and Gerald PrinceRepresents all the major critical approaches to narrative and investigates and debates the relations between themConsiders narratives in different disciplines, such as law and medicineFeatures analyses of a variety
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to narrative theory
• ISBN: 1-78268-622-3; 1-280-28599-0; 9786610285990; 1-4051-6503-0; 0-470-99693-5; 1-4051-5196-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996214594003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; ; 33.