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by Suzanne Keen (Author) "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..." (more)
Key Phrases: contextual narratology, authorial narrative situation, figural narrative situation, Cornell University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Russian Formalists (more...)
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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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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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  • Paperback: 225 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (March 4, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0333960971
  • ISBN-13: 978-0333960974
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #716,446 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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
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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
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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
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5.0 out of 5 stars Accessible and informative, March 7, 2008
This text on narrative in fiction condenses the most recent studies in narrative criticism in an accessible, readable way - an indispensible text.
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