Narrative Theory

An exciting new Companion exploring the study of how stories work and of how we make them work.

List of contents

Part I. Foundations: 1. Narrative theory's Longue durée Kent Puckett; 2. Questions of scale: narrative theory and literary history Yoon Sun Lee; 3. The body of plot: Viktor Shklovsky's theory of narrative Ilya Kalinin; 4. Adventures in structuralism: reading with Barthes and Genette Hannah Freed-Thall; 5. The feminist foundations of narrative theory Judith Roof; 6. Philosophies of history Matthew Garrett; Part II. Motifs: 7. Character John Frow; 8. Time David Wittenberg; 9. Pleasure David Kurnick; Part III. Coordinates: 10. Breaks, borders, utopia: race and critical narrative poetics Amy C. Tang; 11. Queer narrative theory Valerie Rohy; 12. Screenarration: the plane and place of the image Garrett Stewart; 13. Narrative theory and the lyric Jonathan Culler; 14. Contemporary formalisms Mark Currie; 15. Digital games and narrative Patrick Jagoda; 16. Narrative theory and novel theory Margaret Cohen.

About the author

Matthew Garrett is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Wesleyan University, Connecticut where he directs the Certificate in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory. He is the author of Episodic Poetics: Politics and Literary Form after the Constitution (2014), and essays in American Literary History, American Quarterly, Critical Inquiry, ELH, the Journal of Cultural Economy, and Radical History Review, among other journals.

Summary

Narrative theory explores how stories work and how we make them work. This Companion is both an introduction and a substantial contribution to the field. It takes the long historical view, outlines essential concepts, and reflects on the way narrative forms connect with and rework social forms.

Product details

• Authors: EDITED BY MATTHEW GA, Matthew Garrett, Matthew (Wesleyan University Garrett
• Assisted by: Matthew Garrett (Editor), Matthew (Wesleyan University Garrett (Editor), Garrett Matthew (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781108449724
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44972-4
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 228 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge companion
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Englisch, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, England / Sprache, Anglistik / Literaturwissenschaft, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Literary theory