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...

In this innovative collection, an international group of scholars come together to discuss literary metaphors and cognitive metaphor theory.

This groundbreaking work of synthesis combines insights from literary theory and linguistics to provide a challenging new theory of narrative. The author argues that recent literature represents the epitome of a century-long developmental process.

Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature is the first study to provide transhistorical perspectives and cutting-edge critical analyses of debates concerning idleness in English literature. The topicality of the subject is emphasized by two pieces of sociological analysis.

The study of narrative—the object of the rapidly growing discipline of narratology—has been traditionally concerned with the fictional narratives of literature, such as novels or short stories. But narrative is a transdisciplinary and transmedial concept whose manifestations encompass both the fictional and the factual. In this volume, which provides a companion piece to Tobias Klauk and Tilmann Köppe’s Fiktionalität: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, the use of narrative to convey true and reliable information is systematically explored across media, cultures and disciplines, as well...