An Introduction to Narratology

ISBN-13: 9780415450294 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 200 str.

Monika Fludernik

Opis

An Introduction to Narratology is an accessible, practical guide to narratological theory and terminology and its application to literature. In this book, Monika Fludernik outlines: the key concepts of style, metaphor and metonymy, and the history of narrative forms; narratological approaches to interpretation and the linguistic aspects of texts, including new cognitive developments in the field; how students can use narratological theory to work with texts, incorporating detailed practical examples; and, a glossary of useful narrative terms, and suggestions for further reading. This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of the key aspects of narratology by a leading practitioner in the field. It demystifies the subject in a way that is accessible to beginners, but also reflects recent theoretical developments and narratology's increasing popularity as a critical tool.

An Introduction to Narratology is an accessible and practical guide to narratological theory and terminology and its application to literature.

This accessible, practical guide includes:

• discussions on style, metaphor, metonymy and the history of narrative forms
• narratology in its most recent inception, including cognitive developments
• a broad spectrum of the field, including a focus on interpretation, but using linguistic aspects of texts as a foreground
• a pragmatic orientation emphasizing how students can work with texts
• demonstrations of the application of these theories through detailed examples using three popular texts.
• a chapter confronting the frequent problems that students have with narratological concepts
• a glossary of narrative terms.

The textbook covers all of the key aspects of narratology in a way that is accessible to beginners and yet reflects recent theoretical developments.

Spis treści

Preface  1. Narrative and Narrating  2. The Theory of Narrative  3. Text and Authorship  4. The Structure of Narrative  5. The Surface of Narrative  6. Realism, Illusionism and Metafiction  7. Language, the Representation of Speech, and the Stylistics of Narrative  8. Thoughts, Feelings and the Unconscious  9. Narrative Typologies  10. Diachronic Approaches to Narrative  11. Practical Applications  12. Guidelines for Budding Narratologists.  Glossary of Narratological Terms.  Works Cited.  Index

O autorze

Monika Fludernik is Professor of English at the University of Freiburg/Germany. She is the author of The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction (Routledge, 1993) and Towards a 'Natural' Narratology (Routledge, 1996), which was the co-winner of the Perkins Prize of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature.