
Narrative Form
Suzanne Keen(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 13. November 2003
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-333-96096-7 (ISBN)
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Description
This new handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction. With clearly-defined terms and up-to-date references to a broad array of narrative studies, 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. In clear, readable and accessible style, Keen defines terms and describes debates about: * Major Approaches to Narrative * Shapes of Narrative: A Whole of Parts * Narrative Situation: Who's Who and What's its Function * People on Paper: Character, Characterisation and Represented Minds * Plot and Causation: Related Events * Timing: How Long and How Often? * Order and Disorder * Levels: Realms of Existence * Fictional Worlds and Fictionality * Disguises: Fiction in the Form of Non-Fiction Texts * Genres and Conventions
Reviews / Votes
'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 CaliforniaMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
465 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-96096-7 (9780333960967)
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Person
SUZANNE KEEN is Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, where she teaches modern, contemporary and postcolonial narrative fiction. She is the author of two books on English fiction and articles on Thomas Hardy, Jeanette Winterson, Anthony Burgess, Peter Ackroyd and Seamus Heaney.
Content
Contents Preface: Studying Narrative Form Major Approaches to and Theorists of Narrative Shapes of Narrative: A Whole of Parts Narrative Situation: Who's Who and What's its Function People on Paper: Character, Characterization, and Represented Minds Plot and Causation: Related Events Timing: How Long and How Often? Order and Disorder Levels: Realms of Existence Fictional Worlds and Fictionality Disguises: Fiction in the Form of Non-Fiction Texts Genres and Conventions Appendix A. Terms Listed by Chapter Appendix B. Representative Texts: A List of Suggested Reading Bibliography Index