Narrative Concepts and Techniques in International Literary Fiction

The Handbook examines the role of narrative concepts and techniques in literary fiction, introducing key topics with concise entries in a transparent format. It uses a wide range of illustrative examples from Western and non-Western sources to foreground the universal value and relevance of narrative features.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Authors
2 Narrators and Readers
3 Narrative Forms
4 Narrative Components
5 Beginnings, Middles and Endings
6 Time and Space
7 Language and Style
8 Imagery
9 Characters and Speech
10 Genre
11 Intertexts and Transmedia
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Ken Ireland is a former literature panel tutor at the University of Cambridge. Author of Thomas Hardy: Time and Narrative (2014), Cythera Regained? The Rococo Revival in European Literature and the Arts, 1830-1910 (2006), and The Sequential Dynamics of Narrative (2001), he has taught at universities in the US, Nigeria, and Japan, as well as for the Open University, the universities of London, Essex, and the UEA. He has published many articles and conference papers, and his research interests include international contemporary fiction, comparative literature, narrative theory and transmedia studies.

Product details

• Authors: Ken Ireland, Ireland Ken
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032912059
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3291205-9
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers