Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction - Couverture souple

Puckett, Kent

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1107684749 ISBN 13 : 9781107684744

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Kent Puckett's Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction provides an account of a methodology increasingly central to literary studies, film studies, history, psychology and beyond. In addition to introducing readers to some of the field's major figures and their ideas, Puckett situates critical and philosophical approaches towards narrative within a longer intellectual history. The book reveals one of narrative theory's founding claims - that narratives need to be understood in terms of a formal relation between story and discourse, between what they narrate and how they narrate it - both as a necessary methodological distinction and as a problem characteristic of modern thought. Puckett thus shows that narrative theory is not only a powerful descriptive system but also a complex and sometimes ironic form of critique. Narrative Theory offers readers an introduction to the field's key figures, methods and ideas, and it also reveals that field as unexpectedly central to the history of ideas.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kent Puckett is an Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (2008) and War Pictures: Cinema, History, and Violence in Britain, 1939–1945 (forthcoming).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107684749
• ISBN 13: 9781107684744
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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