Narrative theory : core concepts and critical debates /
Explores the scope and aims of narrative from four distinct perspectives: rhetorical, feminist, mind-oriented, and unnatural. Using case studies (Huckleberry Finn, Persuasion, On Chesil Beach, and Midnight's children, respectively), the authors explain their different takes on the same core con...
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
©2012.
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| Series: | Theory and interpretation of narrative series
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Perspectives: rhetorical, feminist, mind-oriented, antimimetic
- 1. Introduction: the approaches
- Narrative as rhetoric / James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz
- A feminist approach to narrative / Robyn Warhol
- Exploring the nexus of narrative and mind / David Herman
- Antimimetic, unnatural, and postmodern narrative theory / Brian Richardson
- 2. Authors, narrators, narration
- 3. Time, plot, and progression
- 4. Narrative worlds: space, setting, perspective
- 5. Character
- 6. Reception and the reader
- 7. Narrative values, aesthetic values
- Part 2. Responses
- Response: To Robyn Warhol's feminist approach ; To David Herman's approach to narrative as worldmaking ; To Brian Richardson's theory of antimimetic narrative / by James Phelan and Peter Rabinowitz
- Response: To James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz's rhetorical narrative approach ; To David Herman's cognitive approach ; To Brian Richardson's antimimetic narrative approach / by Robyn Warhol
- Response: Paradigms in dispute: contrasting assumptions for narrative theory / by David Herman
- Response: General ; Character ; Specific points ; Missing theory / by Brian Richardson.