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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"An authoritative and comprehensive advanced introduction to the terminology and concepts of narratology. Professor Keen is an expert in this area." - Professor J. Hillis Miller, UCI Distinguished Research Professor, University of California Irvine
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One of the most striking commonalities of handbooks for writers of fiction and theoretical works for advanced students lies in the evasiveness of their opening gambits of definition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contextual narratology, authorial narrative situation, figural narrative situation, quoted monologue, overt narrator, narrated monologue, narrative subgenres, feminist narratology, narrative annexes, fictional consciousness, distant reading, secondary narrator, nonfictional narratives, nonfictional texts, authorial audience, narrative theorists, epistolary fiction, hopkins guide, narrative theory, formal traits, narrative fiction, plot events, narrative level, structuralist theorists, narrative audience Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cornell University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Russian Formalists, Henry James, Mikhail Bakhtin, Ohio State University Press, Seymour Chatman, University of Chicago Press, Brian Richardson, Miss Kilman, Princeton University Press, Wayne Booth, Charles Dickens, Dorrit Cohn, Four Essays, Gerald Prince, New Critical, New Criticism, Poetics Today, University of Nebraska Press, William Faulkner, Cambridge University Press, David Herman, George Eliot, Glenn Boyer New!
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One of the most striking commonalities of handbooks for writers of fiction and theoretical works for advanced students lies in the evasiveness of their opening gambits of definition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contextual narratology, authorial narrative situation, figural narrative situation, quoted monologue, overt narrator, narrated monologue, narrative subgenres, feminist narratology, narrative annexes, fictional consciousness, distant reading, secondary narrator, nonfictional narratives, nonfictional texts, authorial audience, narrative theorists, epistolary fiction, hopkins guide, narrative theory, formal traits, narrative fiction, plot events, narrative level, structuralist theorists, narrative audience Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cornell University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Russian Formalists, Henry James, Mikhail Bakhtin, Ohio State University Press, Seymour Chatman, University of Chicago Press, Brian Richardson, Miss Kilman, Princeton University Press, Wayne Booth, Charles Dickens, Dorrit Cohn, Four Essays, Gerald Prince, New Critical, New Criticism, Poetics Today, University of Nebraska Press, William Faulkner, Cambridge University Press, David Herman, George Eliot, Glenn Boyer New!
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- On Narrative (A Critical Inquiry Book) by W. J. T. Mitchell on 7 pages
- NARRATIVE DYNAMICS: ESSAYS ON TIME, PLOT, CLOSURE, AND FRAME (THEORY INTERPRETATION NARRATIV) by BRIAN RICHARDSON on 5 pages
- Theory Of Literature: New Revised Edition by Rene Wellek on 5 pages
- Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel by Lennard J. Davis on 5 pages
- An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy): Revised and Expanded Third Edition by Philip Sidney on 4 pages
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- Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790-1870: Politics, History, and the Family from Edgeworth to Arnold by Mary Jean Corbett in Back Matter
- A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture) by James F. English in Front Matter
- A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture) by James F. English in Front Matter
- Writing Against Revolution: Literary Conservatism in Britain, 1790-1832 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) by Kevin Gilmartin in Back Matter
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