The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative

What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, film, and theatre, but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives. This widely used introduction, now revised and expanded in its third edition, is informed throughout by recent developments in the field and includes one new chapter. The glossary and bibliography have been expanded, and new sections explore unnatural narrative, retrograde narrative, reader-resistant narratives, intermedial narrative, narrativity, and multiple interpretation. With its lucid exposition of concepts, and suggestions for further reading, this book is not only an excellent introduction for courses focused on narrative but also an invaluable resource for students and scholars across a wide range of fields, including literature and drama, film and media, society and politics, journalism, autobiography, history, and still others throughout the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Product details

• Authors: H Porter Abbott, H. Porter Abbott, Abbott H. Porter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781108823357
• ISBN: 978-1-108-82335-7
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 227 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature; Cambridge Introductions to Lit; Cambridge introduction to
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Literary Criticism & Collections, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Educational: English Literature, Educational: First / native language: Literature studies