D. Herman (dir.), The Cambridge Companion to Narrative

The Cambridge Companion to Narrative, Cambridge University Press, coll. "Cambridge Companions to Literature", 2007, 328 p.

Sous la direction de David Herman

David Herman (Ohio State University), Marie-Laure Ryan, H. Porter Abbott, Teresa Bridgeman, Uri Margolin, Bronwen Thomas, Manfred Jahn, Heta Pyrhönen, Neal R. Norrick, Brian Richardson, Jason Mittell, Nick Montfort, Ruth Page, James Phelan, Luc Herman, Bart Vervaeck, Michael Toolan, Monika Fludernik

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• ISBN 978-0-521-85696-6 hardback
• ISBN 978-0-521-67366-2 paperback

Présentation de l'éditeur:

The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to-face interaction, to literary fiction. Each chapter presents a survey of scholarly approaches to topics such as character, dialogue, genre or language, shows how those approaches can be brought to bear on a relatively well-known illustrative example, and indicates directions for further research. Featuring a chapter reviewing definitions of narrative, a glossary of key terms and a comprehensive index, this is an essential resource for both students and scholars in many fields, including language and literature, composition and rhetoric, creative writing, jurisprudence, communication and media studies, and the social sciences.

• Includes a glossary of key terms and concepts
• Accessible overview of the main issues in the field and of current trends in narrative studies
• Includes examples from literature, film and daily life

Sommaire:

PART I PRELIMINARIES

1 Introduction 3
DAVID HERMAN
2 Toward a definition of narrative 22
MARIE-LAURE RYAN


PART II STUDYING NARRATIVE FICTION: A STARTER-KIT
3 Story, plot, and narration 39
H. PORTER ABBOTT
4 Time and space 52
TERESA BRIDGEMAN
5 Character 66
URI MARGOLIN
6 Dialogue 80
BRONWEN THOMAS
7 Focalization 94
MANFRED JAHN
8 Genre 109
HETA PYRHNEN


PARTIII OTHER NARRATIVE MEDIA (A SELECTION)
9 Conversational storytelling 127
NEAL R. NORRICK
10 Drama and narrative 142
BRIAN RICHARDSON
11 Film and television narrative 156
JASON MITTELL
12 Narrative and digital media 172
NICK MONTFORT


PART IV FURTHER CONTEXTS FOR NARRATIVE STUDY
13 Gender 189
RUTH PAGE
14 Rhetoric/ethics 203
JAMES PHELAN
15 Ideology 217
LUC HERMAN AND BART VERVAECK
16 Language 231
MICHAEL TOOLAN
17 Cognition, emotion, and consciousness 245
DAVID HERMAN
18 Identity/alterity 260
MONIKA FLUDERNIK
Glossary 274
Further reading 283
Index 293