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The Cambridge introduction to narrative
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- Creator
- H. Porter Abbott
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Second edition
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521887199, 0521887194, 9780521715157, 0521715156
- OCLC
- ocn183392815
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-227) and indexes.
- Narrative and life. The universality of narrative ; Narrative and time ; Narrative perception -- Defining narrative. The bare minimum ; Story and narrative discourse ; The mediation (construction) of story ; Constituent and supplementary events ; Narrativity -- The borders of narrative. Framing narratives ; Paratexts ; The outer limits of narrative ; Hypertext narrative ; Is it narrative or is it life itself? -- The rhetoric of narrative. The rhetoric of narrative ; Causation ; Normalization ; Masterplots ; Narrative rhetoric at work -- Closure. Conflict : the agon ; Closure and endings ; Closure, suspense, and surprise ; Closure at the level of expectations; Closure at the level of questions ; The absence of closure -- Narration. A few words on interpretation ; The narrator ; Does the narrator narrate everything? ; Voice ; Focalization ; Distance ; Reliability ; Free indirect style ; Narration on stage and screen -- Interpreting narrative. The implied author ; Underreading ; Gaps ; Cruxes ; Repetition : themes and motifs -- Three ways to interpret narrative. The question of wholeness in narrative ; Intentional readings ; Symptomatic readings ; Adaptive readings -- Adaptation across media. Adaptation as creative destruction ; Duration and pace ; Character; Figurative language ; Gaps ; Focalization ; Constraints of the marketplace -- Character and self in narrative. Character vs. action ; Flat and round characters ; Can characters be real? ; Types ; Autobiography ; Life writing as performative -- Narrative and truth. Fiction and nonfiction ; How do we know if it's fiction or nonfiction ; Historical fact in fiction ; The truth of fiction -- Narrative worlds. Narrative space ; The mind of the storyworld ; Multiple worlds : forking-path narratives ; Multiple worlds : narrative metalepsis -- Narrative contestation. A contest of narratives ; A narrative lattice-work ; Shadow stories ; Motivation and personality ; Masterplots and types ; Revising cultural masterplots ; Battling narratives are everywhere -- Narrative negotiation. Narrative negotiation ; Critical reading as narrative negotiation ; Closure, one more time ; The end of closure?