A Companion To Narrative Theory,9781405114769

A Companion To Narrative Theory

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ISBN13: 9781405114769
ISBN10: 1405114762
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-08-26
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

The 35 original essays in A Companion to Narrative Theory constitute the best available introduction to this vital and contested field of humanistic enquiry. Comprises 35 original essays written by leading figures in the field Includes contributions from pioneers in the field such as Wayne C. Booth, Seymour Chatman, J. Hillis Miller and Gerald Prince Represents all the major critical approaches to narrative and investigates and debates the relations between them Considers narratives in different disciplines, such as law and medicine Features analyses of a variety of media, including film, music, and painting Designed to be of interest to specialists, yet accessible to readers with little prior knowledge of the field

Author Biography

James Phelan is Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is the editor of the journal Narrative and the author of several books in narrative theory, the most recent of which are Living to Tell About It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration (2005) and Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative (2007).


Peter J. Rabinowitz is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College. His previous publications include Before Reading (1987) and Authorizing Readers (coauthored with Michael Smith, 1998). He is also a music critic and serves as a contributing editor of Fanfare.


Phelan and Rabinowitz are coeditors of the Ohio State University Press series on the Theory and Interpretation of Narrative, which now has more than twenty-five titles to its credit.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors x
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction: Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Narrative Theory 1(18)
James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz
Prologue
1 Histories of Narrative Theory (I): A Genealogy of Early Developments
19(17)
David Herman
2 Histories of Narrative Theory (II): From Structuralism to the Present
36(24)
Monika Fludernik
3 Ghosts and Monsters: On the (Im)Possibility of Narrating the History of Narrative Theory
60(105)
Brian McHale
PART I New Light on Stubborn Problems 73(92)
4 Resurrection of the Implied Author: Why Bother?
75(14)
Wayne C. Booth
5 Reconceptualizing Unreliable Narration: Synthesizing Cognitive and Rhetorical Approaches
89(19)
Ansgar F. Nünning
6 Authorial Rhetoric, Narratorial (Un)Reliability, Divergent Readings: Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata
108(16)
Tamar Yacobi
7 Henry James and "Focalization," or Why James Loves Gyp
124(12)
J. Hillis Miller
8 What Narratology and Stylistics Can Do for Each Other
136(14)
Dan Shen
9 The Pragmatics of Narrative Fictionality
150(15)
Richard Walsh
PART II Revisions and Innovations 165(118)
10 Beyond the Poetics of Plot: Alternative Forms of Narrative Progression and the Multiple Trajectories of Ulysses
167(14)
Brian Richardson
11 They Shoot Tigers, Don't They?: Path and Counterpoint in The Long Goodbye
181(11)
Peter J. Rabinowitz
12 Spatial Poetics and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
192(14)
Susan Stanford Friedman
13 The "I" of the Beholder: Equivocal Attachments and the Limits of Structuralist Narratology
206(14)
Susan S. Lanser
14 Neonarrative; or, How to Render the Unnarratable in Realist Fiction and Contemporary Film
220(12)
Robyn R. Warhol
15 Self-consciousness as a Narrative Feature and Force: Tellers vs. Informants in Generic Design
232(21)
Meir Sternberg
16 Effects of Sequence, Embedding, and Ekphrasis in Poe's "The Oval Portrait"
253(16)
Emma Kafalenos
17 Mrs. Dalloway's Progeny: The Hours as Second-degree Narrative
269(14)
Seymour Chatman
PART III Narrative Form and its Relationship to History, Politics, and Ethics 283(130)
18 Genre, Repetition, Temporal Order: Some Aspects of Biblical Narratology
285(14)
David H. Richter
19 Why Won't Our Terms Stay Put? The Narrative Communication Diagram Scrutinized and Historicized
299(13)
Harry E. Shaw
20 Gender and History in Narrative Theory: The Problem of Retrospective Distance in David Copperfield and Bleak House
312(10)
Alison Case
21 Narrative Judgments and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative: Ian McEwan's Atonement
322(15)
James Phelan
22 The Changing Faces of Mount Rushmore: Collective Portraiture and Participatory National Heritage
337(19)
Alison Booth
23 The Trouble with Autobiography: Cautionary Notes for Narrative Theorists
356(16)
Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson
24 On a Postcolonial Narratology
372(10)
Gerald Prince
25 Modernist Soundscapes and the Intelligent Ear: An Approach to Narrative Through Auditory Perception
382(17)
Melba Cuddy-Keane
26 In Two Voices, or: Whose Life/Death/Story Is It, Anyway?
399(14)
Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan
PART IV Beyond Literary Narrative 413(102)
27 Narrative in and of the Law
415(12)
Peter Brooks
28 Second Nature, Cinematic Narrative, the Historical Subject, and Russian Ark
427(14)
Alan Nadel
29 Narrativizing the End: Death and Opera
441(10)
Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon
30 Music and/as Cine-Narrative or: Ceci n'est pas un leitmotif
451(15)
Royal S. Brown
31 Classical Instrumental Music and Narrative
466(18)
Fred Everett Maus
32 "I'm Spartacus!"
484(15)
Catherine Gunther Kodat
33 Shards of a History of Performance Art: Pollock and Namuth Through a Glass, Darkly
499(16)
Peggy Phelan
Epilogue
34 Narrative and Digitality: Learning to Think With the Medium
515(14)
Marie-Laure Ryan
35 The Future of All Narrative Futures
529(13)
H. Porter Abbott
Glossary 542(10)
Index 552

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