On Narrative

Informationen zum Autor W. J. T. Mitchellis the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago and editor of "Critical Inquiry". Klappentext The fourteen distinguished contributors to this volume explore ways we tell, understand, and use stories. More important, through their exploration they collectively demonstrate that the study of narrative, like the study of other significant human creations, has taken a quantum leap in the modern era. No longer the province of literary specialists who borrow their terms from psychology or linguistics, the study of narrative has become and invaluable source of insight for all the branches of human and natural science. Multidisciplinary in scope, these essays dramatize and and clarify the most fundamental debates about the nature and value of narrative as a means by which human beings attempt to represent and make sense of the world. Zusammenfassung Essays examine the way stories are told! understood! and used to represent and make sense of the world.

Product details

• Authors: W J T Mitchell, W. J. T. Mitchell, W. J. Thomas Mitchell
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1981
• EAN: 9780226532172
• ISBN: 978-0-226-53217-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Critical Inquiry Book; A Critical Inquiry Book (CHUP); A Critical Inquiry Book
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Literary studies: general, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc