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This book examines the overlaps, differences, and complementarities between narratology and stylistics, and shows the consequences of this examination for the practical analysis of prose narrative.
List of contents
Introduction 1. Distinction and relation between narratology’s story and discourse 2. Difference between narratology’s discourse and fictional stylistics’ style 3. Existing interdisciplinary studies between narratology and stylistics 4. Two most notable overlapping areas between discourse and style 5. Point of view/focalization: Distinction and classification 6. Difference behind similarity: Third-person center of consciousness and first-person retrospective narration 7. Modes of point of view or focalization: Functions and effects 8. Transgressions of modes of point of view or focalization 9. Modes of speech presentation: Functions and effects 10. Peculiarities of speech presentation in Chinese prose fiction Conclusion
About the author
Dan Shen is Boya Chair Professor of English at Peking University, China. She is on the advisory boards of Narrative and Style, and the editorial board of Language and Literature. She has published nine books, including Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction: Covert Progressions Behind Overt Plots and Dual Narrative Dynamics with Routledge.
Summary
This book examines the overlaps, differences, and complementarities between narratology and stylistics, and shows the consequences of this examination for the practical analysis of prose narrative.
