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The Cambridge Companion to Narrative Theory
Narrative theory is essential to everything from history to lyric poetry, from novels to the latest Hollywood blockbuster. Narrative theory explores how stories work and how we make them work. This Companion is both an introduction and a contribution to the field. It presents narrative theory as an approach to understanding all kinds of cultural from literary texts to historiography, from film and videogames to philosophical discourse. It takes the long historical view, outlines essential concepts, and reflects on the way narrative forms connect with and rework social forms. The volume analyzes central premises, identifies narrative theory's feminist foundations, and elaborates its significance to queer theory and issues of race. The specially commissioned essays are exciting to read, uniting accessibility and rigor, traditional concerns with a renovated sense of the field as a whole, and analytical clarity with stylistic dash. Topical and substantial, The Cambridge Companion to Narrative Theory is an engaging resource on a key contemporary concept.
302 pages, Paperback
Published October 31, 2018
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April 29, 2019
I had a hard time understanding the purpose of this book.
Many of the articles are brilliant and interesting but they space from videogames to gender theory and it is hard not to lose the way through it.
I do not know who is supposed to read this book, I guess is to people who are very knowledgeable about narratives and want to spark their interest with a broad variety of thoughts about the narrative world.
Many of the articles are brilliant and interesting but they space from videogames to gender theory and it is hard not to lose the way through it.
I do not know who is supposed to read this book, I guess is to people who are very knowledgeable about narratives and want to spark their interest with a broad variety of thoughts about the narrative world.
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