The Cambridge Companion to Narrative

by Edited by David Herman

• ISBN13: 9780521673662
• ISBN10: 0521673666
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to-face interaction, to literary fiction. Each chapter presents a survey of scholarly approaches to topics such as character, dialogue, genre or language, shows how those approaches can be brought to bear on a relatively well-known illustrative example, and indicates directions for further research. Featuring a chapter reviewing definitions of narrative, a glossary of key terms and a comprehensive index, this is an essential resource for both students and scholars in many fields, including language and literature, composition and rhetoric, creative writing, jurisprudence, communication and media studies, and the social sciences.

Table of Contents

Preliminaries

Introduction

Toward a definition of narrative

Studying Narrative Fiction

Story, plot, and narration

Time and space

Character

Dialogue

Focalization

Genre

Other Narrative Media (A Selection)

Conversational storytelling

Drama and narrative

Film and television narrative

Narrative and digital media

Further Contexts for Narrative Study

Gender

Rhetoric/ethics

Ideology

Language

Cognition, emotion, and consciousness

Identity/alterity

Further reading

Glossary

Index

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