Author: K. Ayyappa Paniker
Publisher: Sterling Publishers Pvt.Ltd
Keywords: narratology, indian
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 8120725026
ISBN-13: 9788120725027

This book identifies ten major models of narration, with occasional comments on their possible impact on the Western narrators. These models are: the Vedic, the Puranic, the Itihasa, the Srnkhla, the Anyapadesha, the Mahakavya, the Dravidian, the Folk-Tribal, and the Mishra. The introductory chapter outlines the theory and practice of the narrative in India, while the concluding chapter discusses the relation between narrative and narratoloy. The Appendix briefly outlines the Asian narrative tradition.

Author: Monika Fludernik
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: narratology, introduction
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2009-04-02
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0415450306
ISBN-13: 9780415450300

An Introduction to Narratology is an accessible, practical guide to narratological theory and terminology and its application to literature. In this book, Monika Fludernik outlines: the key concepts of style, metaphor and metonymy, and the history of narrative forms narratological approaches to interpretation and the linguistic aspects of texts, including new cognitive developments in the field how students can use narratological theory to work with texts, incorporating detailed practical examples a glossary of useful narrative terms, and suggestions for further reading. This t

Author: Mieke Bal
Publisher: University of Toronto Pre
Keywords: narrative, theory, introduction, narratology
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1997-12-31
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0802078060
ISBN-13: 9780802078063

Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal’s Narratology has become a classic introduction to the major elements of a comprehensive theory of narrative texts. In this second edition, Professor Bal broadens the spectrum of her theoretical model, updating the chapters on literary narrative and adding new examples from outside the field of literary studies. Some specific additions include discussions on dialogue in narrative, translation as transformation (including translation between different media), intertextuality, interdiscursivity, and the place of the subject in narra

Author: Michael Kearns
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: stages, narratology, rhetorical
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0803227426
ISBN-13: 9780803227422

Narratology attempts to determine the rules or codes of composition of a narrative and to formulate the “grammar” of narrative, that is, the structures and formulas that recur across stories with very different content. Since its inception some thirty years ago, narratology has adopted a largely formalist and structuralist focus and thus has tended to pass over contextual factors that affect a reader’s experience of narratives. In Rhetorical Narratology, Michael Kearns redresses this one-sidedness by combining traditional narratology’s tools for analyzing texts with rhetoric’s tools

Author: Daniel Punday
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: narratology, corporeal, bodies, narrative
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 2003-06-14
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 1403962413
ISBN-13: 9781403962416

Although the body has recently emerged throughout the humanities and social sciences as an object revealing the power and limits of representation, the study of narrative has almost entirely ignored human corporeality. As this book shows, attention to the body raises uncomfortable questions about the historicity of basic narrative concepts like character, plot, and narration--questions that critics would often prefer to ignore. Daniel Punday argues that narrative itself is a concept constructed by modern-day critics based on assumptions about identity, desire, movement and place that depend on

Author: Gerald Prince
Publisher: University of Nebraska Pre
Keywords: revised, narratology, dictionary
Number of Pages: 126
Published: 2003-12-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0803287763
ISBN-13: 9780803287761

History, literature, religion, myth, film, psychology, theory, and daily conversation all rely heavily on narrative. Cutting across many disciplines, narratology describes and analyzes the language of narrative with its regularly recurring patterns, deeply established conventions for transmission, and interpretive codes, whether in novels, cartoons, or case studies. Indispensable to writers, critics, and scholars in many fields, A Dictionary of Narratology provides quick and reliable access to terms and concepts that are defined, illustrated, and cross-referenced. All entries are keyed to art

Author: Peter Verstraten
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Keywords: narrative, theory, introduction, narratology, film
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2009-10-24
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0802095054
ISBN-13: 9780802095053

Most modern studies of narrative tend to focus predominantly on literature with only some reference to film. In Film Narratology, Peter W.J. Verstraten makes film narratives his primary focus, while noting the unexplored and essentially different narrative effects that film can produce with mise-en-scène, cinematography, and editing.Reworking the definitive theory of narration offeredby literary scholar Mieke Bal, Film Narratology examines cinematic techniques such as external and internal narration, visual and auditive focalization, the narrative force of sound, and the ambiguities caused by