Narratology: An Introduction Paperback - 1996 - 1st Edition

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General Editor: Stan Smith
Professor of English, University of Dundee This important series takes full account of contemporary literary theory, providing collections of key modern readings of major authors, genres and critical approaches. Prefaced by a wide-ranging editorial introduction setting the readings in context and exploring the issues they raise, individual volumes in the series offer the student authoritative and stimulating guides to the best theoretically-informed critical work on subjects from Chaucer to the present.
Narratology is a rapidly growing field in the humanities. Literary narratologists have provided many key concepts and analytical tools which are widely used in the interdisciplinary analysis of such narrative features as plot, point of view, speech presentation, ideological perspective and interpretation. This text provides an excellent introduction and overview of the subject. The introduction explains the central concepts of narratology, their historical development, and draws together contemporary trends from many different disciplines into common focus. It offers a compendium of the development of narratology from classical poetics to the present.
The essays are all prefaced by individual forewords helping the reader to place each individual selection in context. Recent developments are assessed across disciplines, highlighting the mutual influences of narratology and deconstruction, psychoanalysis, feminism, film and media studies. This reader will be an essential tool for students and teachers of literary theory, fiction and film. Susana Onega is Professor of English Literature at Zaragoza University: Jose Angel Garcia Landa is Reader in English Literature and Literary Theory, at the University of Zaragoza.