Basic elements of narrative
"Basic Elements of Narrative outlines a way of thinking about what narrative is and how to identify its basic elements across various media, introducing key concepts developed by previous theorists and contributing original ideas to the growing body of scholarship on stories."--Jacket.
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- Full title :Basic elements of narrative / David Herman.
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"Basic Elements of Narrative outlines a way of thinking about what narrative is and how to identify its basic elements across various media, introducing key concepts developed by previous theorists and contributing original ideas to the growing body of scholarship on stories."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:2009.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Wiley-Blackwell
- Place of Publication:Chichester, U.K
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
The Physical Object
- Description:xv, 249 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781405141536, 1405141530, 9781405141543, 1405141549
- oclc:ocn229467488
- LC Classification:PN212
- Dewey Decimal:808
Table of Contents
Getting started: a thumbnail sketch of the approach -- Toward a working definition of narrative -- Profiles of narrative -- Narrative: basic elements -- Framing the approach: some background and context -- Interdisciplinary perspectives on narrative and narrative theory -- Major trends in recent scholarship on narrative -- Back to the elements: narrative occasions -- Situating stories -- Sociolinguistic approaches -- Positioning theory -- The narrative communication model -- Conclusion -- Temporality, particularity, and narrative: an excursion into the theory of text types -- From contexts of narration to narrative as a type of text -- Text types and categorization processes -- Narrative as a text-type category: descriptions versus stories versus explanations -- Coda: text types, communicative competence, and the roles of stories in science -- The third element; or, how to build a storyworld -- Narratives as blueprints for worldmaking -- Narrative ways of worldmaking -- Narrative worlds: a survey of approaches -- Configuring narrative worlds: the what, where, and when dimensions of storyworlds -- Worlds disrupted: narrativity and noncanonical events -- The nexus of narrative and m…
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