The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative - H. Porter Abbott

The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative

Buch | Hardcover
294 Seiten
2020 | 3rd Revised edition
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-83078-2 (ISBN)
88,50 inkl. MwSt
This text helps readers understand what narrative is, how it is constructed, how it is transmitted, and how it changes when the medium or the cultural context change. It is a key resource for students and scholars across a wide range of fields, including literature and drama, film and media, society and politics, journalism, and autobiography.
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.

A specialist in narrative, autobiography, modernism, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, H. Porter Abbott is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of narrative and the work of Samuel Beckett. He taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 1966 to 2005, with stints as Chair of English and Acting Dean of Arts and Humanities, and continues as Research Professor Emeritus.

1. Narrative and life; 2. Defining narrative; 3. The borders of narrative; 4. The rhetoric of narrative; 5. Closure; 6. Narration; 7. Interpreting narrative; 8. Three ways to interpret narrative; 9. Adaptation across media; 10. Character and Self in narrative; 11. Narrative and truth; 12. Narrative worlds; 13. Narrative contestation; 14. Narrative negotiation: conflict revisited; 15. Narrative negotiation: closure revisited.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Introductions to Literature
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 590 g
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-108-83078-1 / 1108830781
ISBN-13 978-1-108-83078-2 / 9781108830782
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