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What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? What featuers turn a discourse into a narrative text? Now widely acknowledged as one of the most significant volumes in its field, Narrative Fiction turns its attention to these and other questions.
In contrast to many other studies, Narrative Fiction is organized arround issues – such as events, time, focalization, characterization, narration, the text and its reading – rather than individual theorists or approaches. Within this structure, Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan addresses key approaches to narrative fiction, including New Criticism, formlaism, structuralism and phenomenology, but also offers views of the modifications to these theroies. While presenting an analysis of the system governing all fictional narratives, whether in the form of novel, short story or narrative poem, she also suggests how individual narratives can be studied against the background of this general system. A broad range of literary examples illustrate key aspects of the study.
This edition is brought fully up-to-date with an invaluable new chapter, reflecting on recent developments in narratology. Readers are also directed to key recent works in the field. These additions to a classic text ensure that Narrative Fiction will remain the ideal starting point for anyone new to narrative theory.
Editore : Routledge; 2° edizione (13 giugno 2002)
Lingua : Inglese
Copertina flessibile : 208 pagine
ISBN-10 : 0415280222
ISBN-13 : 978-0415280228
Peso articolo : 227 g
Dimensioni : 12.9 x 1.19 x 19.81 cm
Quite a neat book.
I keep buying copies of this book because I end up giving them away to colleagues who find it useful. This text provides an excellent framework for considering narrative in all its forms, and we have used it very successfully with both undergrad and grad courses on literature and film. It provides germane examples although, depending on the course, I often supplement with applications that are more explicitly related to the course’s focus. This is also a great starting point for students writing a critical analysis of a narrative work.
A good buy! A good book!
Un must have pour les étudiant littéraire. Tout les concepts narratologiques y sont expliqués impeccablement avec renforts d’exemple. Une bonne base de narratologie.
This is an excellent introduction to Narratology. Rimmon-Kenan approaches the key concepts and problems of the field with balance and clarity. The text is very well written, concise, and surprisingly thorough for such a diminutive text. If you are even remotely interested, I would strongly recommend buying it. If you are really interested, complement this text with a copy of Mieke Bal’s Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative. Although the two texts cover essentially the same ground, they shine a great deal more light on the topics together than they do separately.