{"product_id":"a-companion-to-narrative-theory-hardback-9781405114769","title":"A Companion to Narrative Theory (Hardback) 9781405114769","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Companion to Narrative Theory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames Phelan (Edited by), J Phelan (Author), Peter J. Rabinowitz (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781405114769, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 June 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e592 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 3.8 cm, 1.152 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Written by major narrative theorists, these essays are original to this volume and are impressively accessible. The editors include ample notes, suggestions for further reading, and a brief glossary. Highly recommended.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe 35 original essays in \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Narrative Theory\u003c\/i\u003e constitute the best available introduction to this vital and contested field of humanistic enquiry.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eComprises 35 original essays written by leading figures in the field\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes contributions from pioneers in the field such as Wayne C. Booth, Seymour Chatman, J. Hillis Miller and Gerald Prince\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRepresents all the major critical approaches to narrative and investigates and debates the relations between them\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders narratives in different disciplines, such as law and medicine\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures analyses of a variety of media, including film, music, and painting\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDesigned to be of interest to specialists, yet accessible to readers with little prior knowledge of the field\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes on Contributors x\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments xvii\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Narrative Theory 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrologue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Histories of Narrative Theory (I): A Genealogy of Early Developments 19\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Herman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Histories of Narrative Theory (II): From Structuralism to the Present 36\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMonika Fludernik\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Ghosts and Monsters: On the (Im)Possibility of Narrating the History of Narrative Theory 60\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBrian McHale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I New Light on Stubborn Problems 73\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Resurrection of the Implied Author: Why Bother? 75\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWayne C. Booth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Reconceptualizing Unreliable Narration: Synthesizing Cognitive and Rhetorical Approaches 89\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnsgar F. Nünning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Authorial Rhetoric, Narratorial (Un)Reliability, Divergent Readings: Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata 108\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTamar Yacobi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Henry James and ‘‘Focalization,’’ or Why James Loves Gyp 124\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJ. Hillis Miller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 What Narratology and Stylistics Can Do for Each Other 136\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDan Shen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Pragmatics of Narrative Fictionality 150\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard Walsh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II Revisions and Innovations 165\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Beyond the Poetics of Plot: Alternative Forms of Narrative Progression and the Multiple Trajectories of Ulysses 167\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBrian Richardson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 They Shoot Tigers, Don’t They?: Path and Counterpoint in The Long Goodbye 181\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeter J. Rabinowitz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Spatial Poetics and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things 192\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSusan Stanford Friedman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The ‘‘I’’ of the Beholder: Equivocal Attachments and the Limits of Structuralist Narratology 206\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSusan S. Lanser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Neonarrative; or, How to Render the Unnarratable in Realist Fiction and Contemporary Film 220\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobyn R. Warhol\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Self-consciousness as a Narrative Feature and Force: Tellers vs. Informants in Generic Design 232\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMeir Sternberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Effects of Sequence, Embedding, and Ekphrasis in Poe’s ‘‘The Oval Portrait’’ 253\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEmma Kafalenos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Mrs. Dalloway’s Progeny: The Hours as Second-degree Narrative 269\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSeymour Chatman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III Narrative Form and its Relationship to History, Politics, and Ethics 283\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Genre, Repetition, Temporal Order: Some Aspects of Biblical Narratology 285\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid H. Richter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Why Won’t Our Terms Stay Put? The Narrative Communication Diagram Scrutinized and Historicized 299\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHarry E. Shaw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Gender and History in Narrative Theory: The Problem of Retrospective Distance in David Copperfield and Bleak House 312\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlison Case\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Narrative Judgments and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative: Ian McEwan’s Atonement 322\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames Phelan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 The Changing Faces of Mount Rushmore: Collective Portraiture and Participatory National Heritage 337\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlison Booth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 The Trouble with Autobiography: Cautionary Notes for Narrative Theorists 356\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSidonie Smith and Julia Watson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 On a Postcolonial Narratology 372\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGerald Prince\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Modernist Soundscapes and the Intelligent Ear: An Approach to Narrative Through Auditory Perception 382\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMelba Cuddy-Keane\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 In Two Voices, or: Whose Life\/Death\/Story Is It, Anyway? 399\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eShlomith Rimmon-Kenan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART IV Beyond Literary Narrative 413\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Narrative in and of the Law 415\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeter Brooks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Second Nature, Cinematic Narrative, the Historical Subject, and Russian Ark 427\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlan Nadel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Narrativizing the End: Death and Opera 441\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLinda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Music and\/as Cine-Narrative or: Ceci n’est pas un leitmotif 451\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRoyal S. Brown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Classical Instrumental Music and Narrative 466\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFred Everett Maus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 ‘‘I’m Spartacus!’’ 484\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCatherine Gunther Kodat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Shards of a History of Performance Art: Pollock and Namuth Through a Glass, Darkly 499\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeggy Phelan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Narrative and Digitality: Learning to Think With the Medium 515\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarie-Laure Ryan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 The Future of All Narrative Futures 529\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eH. 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