S. Keen

Narrative Form (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction. Beginning with a survey of major theorists and approaches, and using clearly defined terms, Narrative Form explains critical vocabulary and offers a variety of strategies for analyzing the formal qualities of fiction. Keen suggests that interpretations of form can be effectively integrated with contemporary approaches to literature, including feminist, postcolonial, and cultural studies methodologies. Narrative Form shows how to use the language of formal analysis accurately and innovatively.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230503489
• Artikelnr.: 38155513

Autorenporträt

SUZANNE KEEN is Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, where she teaches modern, contemporary and postcolonial narrative fiction. She is the author of two books on English fiction and articles on Thomas Hardy, Jeanette Winterson, Anthony Burgess, Peter Ackroyd and Seamus Heaney.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Studying Narrative Form
1. Major Approaches to and Theorists of Narrative
2. Shapes of Narrative: A Whole of Parts
3. Narrative Situation: Who's Who and What's its Function
4. People on Paper: Character, Characterization, and Represented Minds
5. Plot and Causation: Related Events
6. Timing: How Long and How Often?
7. Order and Disorder
8. Levels: Realms of Existence
9. Fictional Worlds and Fictionality
10. Nonfiction and Fiction in Disguise
11. Genres and Conventions
12. Narrative Emotions
Appendix A. Terms Listed by Chapter
Appendix B. Representative Texts: A List of Suggested Readings
Notes
Bibliography
Index