Narrative Form

Informationen zum Autor Suzanne Keen is Dean of the College at Washington and Lee University, USA. She writes about narrative empathy and the impact of immersion reading, and her books include Thomas Hardy's Brains, Empathy and the Novel, Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction, Victorian Renovations of the Novel, and a volume of poetry. Klappentext This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions. Zusammenfassung This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing! with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative! nonfiction! and narrative emotions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Studying Narrative Form 1. Major Approaches to and Theorists of Narrative 2. Shapes of Narrative: A Whole of Parts 3. Narrative Situation: Who's Who and What's its Function 4. People on Paper: Character, Characterization, and Represented Minds 5. Plot and Causation: Related Events 6. Timing: How Long and How Often? 7. Order and Disorder 8. Levels: Realms of Existence 9. Fictional Worlds and Fictionality 10. Nonfiction and Fiction in Disguise 11. Genres and Conventions 12. Narrative Emotions Appendix A. Terms Listed by Chapter Appendix B. Representative Texts: A List of Suggested Readings Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Suzanne Keen
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.07.2015
• EAN: 9781137439581
• ISBN: 978-1-137-43958-1
• No. of pages: 229
• Subjects: Guides; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); B, Media Studies, Communication, computer science, Film History, Media and Communication, Literary theory, Stylistics, Information technology: general issues, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Film and TV History, Motion pictures—History, Film history, theory & criticism, Popular Computer Science, Medieval Literature, Literature, Medieval, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Language and languages—Style