Experimentation with the speech of characters has been hailed by Gerard Genette as one of the main paths of emancipation in the modern novel. Dialogue as a stylistic and narrative device is a key feature in the development of the novel as a genre, yet it is also a phenomenon little acknowledged or explored in the critical literature. Fictional Dialogue demonstrates the richness and versatility of dialogue as a narrative technique in twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels by focusing on extended extracts and sequences of utterances. It also examines how different versions of...
Experimentation with the speech of characters has been hailed by Gerard Genette as one of the main paths of emancipation in the modern novel. Dialogue...
From reality television to celebrity gossip magazines, today's technologies have enabled a vast number of personal narratives that document our existence and that of others. Multiple academic disciplines now define the self as fluid and entirely changeable: little more than a performance that is chosen according to the situation. While news journalists still pursue the authentic narrative, advertising and politics might be accused of exploiting the narrative tendency, and across media the personal and public become increasingly merged.
Real Lives, Celebrity Stories collects...
From reality television to celebrity gossip magazines, today's technologies have enabled a vast number of personal narratives that document our exi...
Providing an up-to-date and accessible overview of the essentials of narrative theory, "Narrative: The Basics "guides the reader through the major approaches to the study of narrative, using contemporary examples from a wide range of narrative forms to answer key questions including:
What is narrative?
What are the "universals" of narrative?
What is the relationship between narrative and ideology?
Does the reader have a role in narrative?
Has the digital age brought radically new forms of narrative?
Each chapter...
Providing an up-to-date and accessible overview of the essentials of narrative theory, "Narrative: The Basics "guides the reader through the major ...
Providing an up-to-date and accessible overview of the essentials of narrative theory, "Narrative: The Basics "guides the reader through the major approaches to the study of narrative, using contemporary examples from a wide range of narrative forms to answer key questions including:
What is narrative?
What are the "universals" of narrative?
What is the relationship between narrative and ideology?
Does the reader have a role in narrative?
Has the digital age brought radically new forms of narrative?
Each chapter...
Providing an up-to-date and accessible overview of the essentials of narrative theory, "Narrative: The Basics "guides the reader through the major ...
