| Description |
xv, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Text: Words. The Narrator. Non-Narrative Comments. Description. Levels of Narration -- 2. Story: Aspects. Sequential Ordering. Rhythm. Frequency. From Actors to Characters. From Place to Space. Focalization. Visual Stories -- 3. Fabula: Elements. Events. Actors. Time. Location -- 4. Afterword: Theses on the Use of Narratology for Cultural Analysis |
| Summary |
Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become a classic introduction to the major elements of a comprehensive theory of narrative texts. In this second edition, Professor Bal broadens the spectrum of her theoretical model, updating the chapters on literary narrative and adding new examples from outside the field of literary studies. Some specific additions include discussions on dialogue in narrative, translation as transformation (including translation between different media), intertextuality, interdiscursivity, and the place of the subject in narratology. Two new sections, one on visualization and visual narrative with examples from art and film and the other an examination of anthropological views of narrative, lead Bal to conclude with a re-evaluation of narratology in light of its applications outside the realm of the literary |
| Notes |
Translation of: De theorie van vertellen en verhalen |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-240) and indexes |
| Notes |
Translation of: De theorie van vertellen en verhalen |
| Subject |
Narration (Rhetoric)
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| LC no. |
98117283 |
| ISBN |
0802078060 paperback alkaline paper |
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0802007597 alkaline paper |
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