Frontiers of Narrative – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Frontiers of Narrative. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
60 produkter
Imagining Kashmir
Emplotment and Colonialism
Inbunden, 2016
792 kr
Lägg i varukorg
During the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent, Kashmir-a Muslim-majority area ruled by a Hindu maharaja-became a hotly disputed territory. Divided between India and Pakistan, the region has been the focus of international wars and the theater of political and military struggles for …
Coincidence and Counterfactuality
Plotting Time and Space in Narrative Fiction
Inbunden, 2008
661 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In Coincidence and Counterfactuality, a groundbreaking analysis of plot, Hilary P. Dannenberg sets out to answer the perennial question of how to tell a good story. While plot is among the most integral aspects of storytelling, it is perhaps the least studied aspect of narrative. Using plot theory …
Emergence of Mind
Representations of Consciousness in Narrative Discourse in English
Av David Herman
Häftad, 2011
449 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From Chaucer's Pardoner to Eliot's Edward Casaubon, from Behn's Oroonoko to Woolf's Clarissa Dalloway—the multifarious perceptions, inferences, memories, attitudes, and emotions of such characters are in some cases as vividly familiar to us readers as those of the living, breathing individuals we …
Telling Children's Stories
Narrative Theory and Children's Literature
Häftad, 2011
449 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The most accessible approach yet to children's literature and narrative theory, Telling Children's Stories is a comprehensive collection of never-before-published essays by an international slate of scholars that offers a broad yet in-depth assessment of narrative strategies unique to children's …
Pseudo-Memoirs
Life and Its Imitation in Modern Fiction
Inbunden, 2021
792 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Pseudo-Memoirs redefines the notion of fiction itself, a form that has all too often been understood in terms of its capacity to produce a seeming reality. Rochelle Tobias argues that the verisimilitude of the novel derives not from its object but from the subjectivity at its base. What generates …
New Narratives
Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age
Häftad, 2011
514 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Just as the explosive growth of digital media has led to ever-expanding narrative possibilities and practices, so these new electronic modes of storytelling have, in their own turn, demanded a rapid and radical rethinking of narrative theory. This timely volume takes up the challenge, deeply and …
Spaces of the Mind
Narrative and Community in the American West
Häftad, 2008
449 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Spaces of the Mind reveals how both immigrant European and modern Native communities and individuals use oral and written narratives to define and center themselves in time and space. Elaine A. Jahner skillfully weaves together years of fieldwork among the Standing Rock Sioux in North Dakota, her …
Fictional Minds
Av Alan Palmer
Häftad, 2008
317 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Fictional Minds suggests that readers understand novels primarily by following the functioning of the minds of characters in the novel storyworlds. Despite the importance of this aspect of the reading process, traditional narrative theory does not include a complete and coherent theory of fictional …
Storying Domestic Violence
Constructions and Stereotypes of Abuse in the Discourse of General Practitioners
Häftad, 2009
219 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Globally, at least one in four women experiences domestic violence at some point in her life, according to World Bank figures, which are confirmed by local surveys throughout the world. Since domestic violence can cause both acute physical injuries and long-term chronic illness, an abused woman is …
Imagined Moment
Time, Narrative, and Computation
Inbunden, 2010
655 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Time is a key aspect of narrative. It can advance a story, illuminate its role in our daily lives, and help us understand how events unfold. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Inderjeet Mani uses recent developments in linguistics and computer science to analyze the use of time in …
Affective Narratology
The Emotional Structure of Stories
Inbunden, 2011
792 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Stories engage our emotions. We've known this at least since the days of Plato and Aristotle. What this book helps us to understand now is how our own emotions fundamentally organize and orient stories. In light of recent cognitive research and wide reading in different narrative traditions, …
Useful Fictions
Evolution, Anxiety, and the Origins of Literature
Inbunden, 2011
596 kr
Lägg i varukorg
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live," Joan Didion observed in The White Album. Why is this? Michael Austin asks, in Useful Fictions. Why, in particular, are human beings, whose very survival depends on obtaining true information, so drawn to fictional narratives? After all, virtually every …
Storying Domestic Violence
Constructions and Stereotypes of Abuse in the Discourse of General Practitioners
Inbunden, 2007
348 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Globally, at least one in four women experiences domestic violence at some point in her life, according to World Bank figures, which are confirmed by local surveys throughout the world. Since domestic violence can cause both acute physical injuries and long-term chronic illness, an abused woman is …
Writing at the Limit
The Novel in the New Media Ecology
Inbunden, 2012
785 kr
Lägg i varukorg
While some cultural critics are pronouncing the death of the novel, a whole generation of novelists have turned to other media with curiosity rather than fear. These novelists are not simply incorporating references to other media into their work for the sake of verisimilitude, they are also …
Affective Narratology
The Emotional Structure of Stories
E-bok, 2011
696 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Stories engage our emotions. We've known this at least since the days of Plato and Aristotle. What this book helps us to understand now is how our own emotions fundamentally organize and orient stories. In light of recent cognitive research and wide reading in different narrative traditions, …
Narrative Beginnings
Theories and Practices
Häftad, 2009
449 kr
Lägg i varukorg
George Eliot wrote that “man cannot do without the make-believe of a beginning.” Beginnings, it turns out, can be quite unusual, complex, and deceptive. The first major volume to focus on this critical but neglected topic, this collection brings together theoretical studies and critical analyses of …
Storyworld Accord
Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives
Av Erin James
Inbunden, 2015
792 kr
Lägg i varukorg
"Storyworlds," mental models of context and environment within which characters function, is a concept used to describe what happens in narrative. Narratologists agree that the concept of storyworlds best captures the ecology of narrative interpretation by allowing a fuller appreciation of the …
Fictional Dialogue
Speech and Conversation in the Modern and Postmodern Novel
Inbunden, 2012
655 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Experimentation with the speech of characters has been hailed by Gérard Genette as "one of the main paths of emancipation in the modern novel." Dialogue as a stylistic and narrative device is a key feature in the development of the novel as a genre, yet it is also a phenomenon little acknowledged …
Stories and Minds
Cognitive Approaches to Literary Narrative
Av Lars Bernaerts, Dirk de Geest m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
384 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How do narratives draw on our memory capacity? How is our attention guided when we are reading a literary narrative? What kind of empathy is triggered by intercultural novels? A cast of international scholars explores these and other questions from an interdisciplinary perspective in Stories and …
Storyworlds Across Media
Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology
Av Marie-Laure Ryan, Jan-Noël Thon
Häftad, 2014
449 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The proliferation of media and their ever-increasing role in our daily life has produced a strong sense that understanding media—everything from oral storytelling, literary narrative, newspapers, and comics to radio, film, TV, and video games—is key to understanding the dynamics of culture and …
Contemporary Comics Storytelling
Inbunden, 2013
720 kr
Lägg i varukorg
What if fairy-tale characters lived in New York City? What if a superhero knew he was a fictional character? What if you could dispense your own justice with one hundred untraceable bullets? These are the questions asked and answered in the course of the challenging storytelling in Fables, Tom …
Ethos and Narrative Interpretation
The Negotiation of Values in Fiction
Inbunden, 2014
785 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Ethos and Narrative Interpretation examines the fruitfulness of the concept of ethos for the theory and analysis of literary narrative. The notion of ethos refers to the broadly persuasive effects of the image one may have of a speaker's psychology, world view, and emotional or ethical stance. How …
Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media
Inbunden, 2015
727 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How do writers represent cognition, and what can these representations tell us about how our own minds work? Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media is the first single-author book to explore these questions across media, moving from analyses of literary narratives in print to those found where so much …
Storyworlds Across Media
Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology
Av Marie-Laure Ryan, Jan-Noël Thon
E-bok, 2014
409 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The proliferation of media and their ever-increasing role in our daily life has produced a strong sense that understanding media—everything from oral storytelling, literary narrative, newspapers, and comics to radio, film, TV, and video games—is key to understanding the dynamics of culture and …
Ethos and Narrative Interpretation
The Negotiation of Values in Fiction
E-bok, 2014
696 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Ethos and Narrative Interpretation examines the fruitfulness of the concept of ethos for the theory and analysis of literary narrative. The notion of ethos refers to the broadly persuasive effects of the image one may have of a speaker's psychology, world view, and emotional or ethical stance. How …
Opening Acts
Narrative Beginnings in Twentieth-Century Feminist Fiction
Inbunden, 2015
727 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the beginning there was . . . the beginning. And with the beginning came the power to tell a story. Few book-length studies of narrative beginnings exist, and not one takes a feminist perspective. Opening Acts reveals the important role of beginnings as moments of discursive authority with power …
Story Logic
Problems and Possibilities of Narrative
Av David Herman
Häftad, 2004
580 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Featuring a major synthesis and critique of interdisciplinary narrative theory, Story Logic marks a watershed moment in the study of narrative. David Herman argues that narrative is simultaneously a cognitive style, a discourse genre, and a resource for writing. Because stories are strategies that …
Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture
Inbunden, 2016
792 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Narratives are everywhere-and since a significant part of contemporary media culture is defined by narrative forms, media studies need a genuinely transmedial narratology. Against this background, Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture focuses on the intersubjective construction of …
Talk Fiction
Literature and the Talk Explosion
Häftad, 2001
449 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Everywhere you turn today, someone (or something) is talking to you—the television, the radio, cell phones, your computer. If you think some of the novels and stories you read are talking to you too, you're not alone, and you're not mistaken. In this innovative, multidisciplinary work, Irene …
Unnatural Narrative
Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama
Av Jan Alber
Inbunden, 2016
727 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A talking body part, a character that is simultaneously alive and dead, a shape-changing setting, or time travel: although impossible in the real world, such narrative elements do appear in the storyworlds of novels, short stories, and plays. Impossibilities of narrator, character, time, and space …
