Narrative Form Revised and Expanded Second Edition

by Keen, Suzanne

• ISBN13: 9781137439574
• ISBN10: 1137439572
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-07-29
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions. Beginning with an updated survey of major theorists and approaches, and using clearly defined terms, Narrative Form explains critical vocabulary and offers a variety of strategies for analyzing the formal qualities of narrative. Narrative Form shows how to use the language of formal analysis accurately and innovatively when discussing fictional and nonfictional narratives in a variety of media: stories, novels, films, graphic narratives, and video games.

Author Biography

Suzanne Keen is Dean of the College at Washington and Lee University, USA. She writes about narrative empathy and the impact of immersion reading, and her books include Thomas Hardy's Brains, Empathy and the Novel, Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction, Victorian Renovations of the Novel, and a volume of poetry.

Table of Contents

Preface: Studying Narrative Form
1. Major Approaches to and Theorists of Narrative
2. Shapes of Narrative: A Whole of Parts
3. Narrative Situation: Who's Who and What's its Function
4. People on Paper: Character, Characterization, and Represented Minds
5. Plot and Causation: Related Events
6. Timing: How Long and How Often?
7. Order and Disorder
8. Levels: Realms of Existence
9. Fictional Worlds and Fictionality
10. Nonfiction and Fiction in Disguise
11. Genres and Conventions
12. Narrative Emotions
Appendix A. Terms Listed by Chapter
Appendix B. Representative Texts: A List of Suggested Readings
Notes
Bibliography
Index