H Porter Abbott

The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 3rd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 196mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781108830782
• ISBN-10: 1108830781
• Artikelnr.: 60064377

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.