Narrative theory: a critical introduction

by Puckett, Kent

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Full title :Narrative theory : a critical introduction / Kent Puckett.

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"Kent Puckett's Narrative Theory provides an account of a methodology increasingly central to literary studies, film studies, history, psychology and beyond. In addition to introducing readers to some of the field's major figures and their ideas, Puckett situates critical and philosophical approaches towards narrative within a longer intellectual history. The book reveals one of narrative theory's founding claims - that narratives need to be understood in terms of a formal relation between story and discourse, between what they narrate and how they narrate it - both as a necessary methodological distinction and as a problem characteristic of modern thought. Puckett thus shows that narrative theory is not only a powerful descriptive system but also a complex and sometimes ironic form of critique. Narrative Theory offers readers an introduction to the field's key figures, methods, and ideas and also reveals that field as unexpectedly central to the history of ideas"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2016

The Physical Object

Description:vii, 351 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781107033665, 1107033667, 9781107684744, 1107684749
oclc:ocn945564317
LC Classification:PN212
Dewey Decimal:808/.036

Introduction: Story / disclosure -- Action, event, conflict: the uses of narrative in Aristotle and Hegel -- Lost illusions: narrative in Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud -- Epic, novel, narrative theory: Henry James, Georg Lukács, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Erich Auerbach -- Form, structure, narrative: Propp, Shklovsky, Saussure, Lévi-Strauss -- Narratology and narrative theory: Kristeva, Barthes, and Genette.