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An introduction to narratology

Author: Monika Fludernik
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A guide to narratological theory and terminology and its application to literature. It outlines the key concepts of style, metaphor and metonymy, and the history of narrative forms.

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Monika Fludernik
ISBN: 9780415450294 0415450292 9780415450300 0415450306 9780203882887 0203882881
OCLC Number: 176946020
Description: x, 190 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents: Narrative and narrating --
The theory of narrative --
Text and authorship : The author --
The structure of narrative : Text-internal narrative structures ; Narrative and plot ; The narrator: person ; Time ; Presentational modes ; Focalization, perspective, point of view --
The surface of narrative Space/time --
Fictional characters: how characters are introduced ; Story and contouring ; Oral storytelling and the episodic model ; Episodic structure ; The creative use of pronouns in texts ; Experiments with tense in narratives --
Realism, illusionism and metafiction : Narrative realism ; Roland Barthes ; The authenticity of the narrative voice ; Fictionality ; Metafiction and metanarration --
Language, the representation of speech and the stylistics of narrative : Language ; Representing speech ; Language and style ; Stylistic variation ; Metaphor and metonymy --
Thoughts, feelings and the unconscious --
Narrative typologies : Franz Karl Stanzel's theory of narrative ; Gérard Genette's theory of narrative ; Recent theories of narrative --
Diachronic approaches to narrative : From speech to writing ; The development of new narrative modes and their cognitive bases --
Narratological firsts ; New media ; Changing functions and theoretical readjustments ; Open research questions --
Practical applications : Great expectations and Mister Pip: childhood selves ; Authorial narrative: the perspective form above ; Reading people's minds --
Guidelines for budding narratologists : How to write about narratological issues ; Some do's and don't's: how to avoid narratologically infelicitous phrases.
Other Titles: Einführung in die Erzähltheorie.
Responsibility: Monika Fludernik ; translated from the German by Patricia Häusler-Greenfield and Monika Fludernik.
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