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Narrative Fiction : Contemporary Poetics
Paperback Edition: 2
What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? What features turn a discourse into a narrative text? This book turns its attention to these and other questions.
Narrative Fiction is organised around issues - such as events, time, focalisation, characterisation, narration the text and its reading - rather than individual theorists or approaches. In following such a course, Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan addresses key approaches to narrative fiction, from New Criticism to Phenomenology, but also offers views on and modifications to these theories. While presenting an analysis of the system governing all fictional narratives, whether in the form of novel, short story or narrative poem, she also suggests how individual narratives can be studied against the background of this general system. Throughout, she illustrates aspects of her study with numerous examples drawn from texts of different periods and national literatures.
This edition is brought up-to-date with a new concluding chapter, which includes references to significant recent works in the field.
Pages : 208
Publisher : Routledge
Publication date : 2002-06-13
Subjects: Non-fiction, Education / Language / ESOL