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The Cambridge companion to narrative

David Herman (Editor of compilation, Contributor)
"The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to-face interaction, to literary fiction. Each chapter presents a survey of scholarly approaches to topics such as character, dialogue, genre or language, shows how those approaches can be brought to bear on a relatively well-known illustrative example, and indicates directions for further research. Featuring a chapter reviewing definitions of narrative, a glossary of key terms and a comprehensive index, this is an essential resource for both students and scholars in many fields, including language and literature, composition and rhetoric, creative writing, jurisprudence, communication and media studies, and the social sciences." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0729/2006038545-d.html
Print Book, English, 2007
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007
Aufsatzsammlung
xiii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780521856966, 9780521673662, 0521856965, 0521673666
76794778
Preliminaries
Introduction / David Herman
Toward a definition of narrative / Marie-Laure Ryan
Studying narrative fiction : a starter-kit
Story, plot, and narration / H. Porter Abbott
Time and space / Teresa Bridgeman
Character / Uri Margolin
Dialogue / Bronwen Thomas
Focalization / Manfred Jahn
Genre / Heta Pyrhönen
Other narrative media (a selection)
Conversational storytelling / Neal R. Norrick
Drama and narrative / Brian Richardson
Film and television narrative / Jason Mittell
Narrative and digital media / Nick Montfort
Further contexts for narrative study
Gender / Ruth Page
Rhetoric/ethics / James Phelan
Ideology / Luc Herman and Bart Vervaeck
Language / Michael Toolan
Cognition, emotion, and consciousness / David Herman
Identity/alterity / Monika Fludernik