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Narratives And Narrators
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Author : Gregory Currie
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2010-02-18
Narratives And Narrators written by Gregory Currie and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Gregory Currie offers a reflection on the nature and significance of narrative in human communication. He shows that narratives are devices for manifesting the intentions of their makers in stories, argues that human tendencies to imitation and to joint attention underlie the pleasure of narrative, and discusses authorship, character, and irony.
Narratives And Narrators
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Author : Gregory Currie
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-02-18
Narratives And Narrators written by Gregory Currie and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-18 with Philosophy categories.
Narratives are artefacts of a special kind: they are intentionally crafted devices which fulfil their story-telling function by manifesting the intentions of their makers. But narrative itself is too inclusive a category for much more to be said about it than this; we should focus attention instead on the vaguely defined but interesting category of things rich in narrative structure. Such devices offer significant possibilities, not merely for the representation of stories, but for the expression of point of view; they have also played an important role in the evolution of reliable communication. Narratives and narrators argues that much of the pleasure of narrative communication depends on deep-seated and early developing tendencies in human beings to imitation and to joint attention, and imitation turns out to be the key to understanding such important literary techniques as free indirect discourse and character-focused narration. The book also examines irony in narrative, with an emphasis on the idea of the expression of ironic points of view. It looks closely at the idea of character, or robust, situation-independent ways of acting and thinking, as it is represented in narrative. It asks whether scepticism about the notion of character should have us reassess the dramatic and literary tradition which places such emphasis on character.
Narrators Narratees And Narratives In Ancient Greek Literature
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Author : Irene J. F. De Jong
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2004
Narrators Narratees And Narratives In Ancient Greek Literature written by Irene J. F. De Jong and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is the first part of a new narratological history of Greek literature, which deals with the definition and boundaries of narrative and the role of narrators and narratees.
Prose Fiction An Introduction To The Semiotics Of Narrative
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Author : Ignasi Ribó
language : en
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Release Date : 2019-12-13
Prose Fiction An Introduction To The Semiotics Of Narrative written by Ignasi Ribó and has been published by Open Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-13 with Education categories.
This concise and highly accessible textbook outlines the principles and techniques of storytelling. It is intended as a high-school and college-level introduction to the central concepts of narrative theory – concepts that will aid students in developing their competence not only in analysing and interpreting short stories and novels, but also in writing them. This textbook prioritises clarity over intricacy of theory, equipping its readers with the necessary tools to embark on further study of literature, literary theory and creative writing. Building on a ‘semiotic model of narrative,’ it is structured around the key elements of narratological theory, with chapters on plot, setting, characterisation, and narration, as well as on language and theme – elements which are underrepresented in existing textbooks on narrative theory. The chapter on language constitutes essential reading for those students unfamiliar with rhetoric, while the chapter on theme draws together significant perspectives from contemporary critical theory (including feminism and postcolonialism). This textbook is engaging and easily navigable, with key concepts highlighted and clearly explained, both in the text and in a full glossary located at the end of the book. Throughout the textbook the reader is aided by diagrams, images, quotes from prominent theorists, and instructive examples from classical and popular short stories and novels (such as Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Franz Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis,’ J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter, or Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, amongst many others). Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative can either be incorporated as the main textbook into a wider syllabus on narrative theory and creative writing, or it can be used as a supplementary reference book for readers interested in narrative fiction. The textbook is a must-read for beginning students of narratology, especially those with no or limited prior experience in this area. It is of especial relevance to English and Humanities major students in Asia, for whom it was conceived and written.
We Narratives
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Author : Natalya Bekhta
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2025-08
We Narratives written by Natalya Bekhta and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Winner, 2021 Perkins Prize from the International Society for the Study of Narrative Natalya Bekhta's We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction analyzes a storytelling form shaped by the pronoun "we," probing the tensions between individuality and collectivity in more recent narratives in English. Despite a growing interest in collective characters and the we-form in narratology and beyond, narrative theory has not yet done justice to the plural voice in fiction. In fact, the formulation of a poetics of collective expression needs clear theoretical conventions and a reassessment of established concepts in order to approach plural voices and agents on their own terms. We-Narratives addresses this demand by distinguishing between indicative and performative uses of the first-person plural pronoun in fiction and by identifying formal and rhetorical possibilities of stories told by group narrators. What does it mean for a multitude to speak as one? How can a truly collective narrative voice be achieved or lost? What are its aesthetic and political repercussions? In order to tackle these questions, Bekhta reads a range of contemporary novels and short stories by Jeffrey Eugenides, Joshua Ferris, Toby Litt, Zakes Mda, Joyce Carol Oates, and Julie Otsuka. She also focuses on narrative innovation by Margaret Atwood, William Faulkner, and Susan Sontag. These narratives feature group protagonists and narrators and therefore offer insight into collective narrative discourse and focalization, construction of communal knowledge and unreliability. We-narrative, taken as a distinct storytelling form, illuminates fiction's expressive potential and nuances models of narrative analysis.
Narration As Argument
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Author : Paula Olmos
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-05-09
Narration As Argument written by Paula Olmos and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-09 with Philosophy categories.
This book presents reflections on the relationship between narratives and argumentative discourse. It focuses on their functional and structural similarities or dissimilarities, and offers diverse perspectives and conceptual tools for analyzing the narratives’ potential power for justification, explanation and persuasion. Divided into two sections, the first Part, under the title “Narratives as Sources of Knowledge and Argument”, includes five chapters addressing rather general, theoretical and characteristically philosophical issues related to the argumentative analysis and understanding of narratives. We may perceive here how scholars in Argumentation Theory have recently approached certain topics that have a close connection with mainstream discussions in epistemology and the cognitive sciences about the justificatory potential of narratives. The second Part, entitled “Argumentative Narratives in Context”, brings us six more chapters that concentrate on either particular functions played by argumentatively-oriented narratives or particular practices that may benefit from the use of special kinds of narratives. Here the focus is either on the detailed analysis of contextualized examples of narratives with argumentative qualities or on the careful understanding of the particular demands of certain well-defined situated activities, as diverse as scientific theorizing or war policing, that may be satisfied by certain uses of narrative discourse.
The Narrative Subject
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Author : Christina Schachtner
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2020-10-26
The Narrative Subject written by Christina Schachtner and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-26 with Social Science categories.
This open access book considers the stories of adolescents and young adults from different regions of the world who use digital media as instruments and stages for storytelling, or who make the media the subject of story telling. These narratives discuss interconnectedness, self-staging, and managing boundaries. From the perspective of media and cultural research, they can be read as responses to the challenges of contemporary society. Providing empirical evidence and thought-provoking explanations, this book will be useful to students and scholars who wish to uncover how ongoing processes of cultural transformation are reflected in the thoughts and feelings of the internet generation.
Emotion And Narrative
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Author : Tilmann Habermas
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019
Emotion And Narrative written by Tilmann Habermas and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The way we tell stories influences how others react to our emotions, and impacts how we cope with emotions ourselves.
Mind Brain And Narrative
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Author : Anthony J. Sanford
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-12-20
Mind Brain And Narrative written by Anthony J. Sanford and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
An examination of the scientific evidence for the mechanisms which underlie the effect a writer's language has on the reader.
Relating Narratives
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Author : Adriana Cavarero
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2000
Relating Narratives written by Adriana Cavarero and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Drawing from a diverse array of thinkers from philosophical and literary traditions, this text shows how narrative models can open new ways of thinking about formation of human identities.