The Cambridge Introduction To Narrative

Helps readers understand what narrative is, how it is constructed, and how it changes when the medium changes.

What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, film, and theatre, but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives. This widely used introduction, now revised and expanded in its third edition, is informed throughout by recent developments in the field and includes one new chapter. The glossary and bibliography have been expanded, and new sections explore unnatural narrative, retrograde narrative, reader-resistant narratives, intermedial narrative, narrativity, and multiple interpretation. With its lucid exposition of concepts, and suggestions for further reading, this book is not only an excellent introduction for courses focused on narrative but also an invaluable resource for students and scholars across a wide range of fields, including literature and drama, film and media, society and politics, journalism, autobiography, history, and still others throughout the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Author:H. Porter Abbott - Х. Портер Эббот

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Language:English

Publication Date:2020

Number of pages:294 pst

Format:Paperback

Width:152 mm / 6'

Height:227 mm / 8,9'

Weight:470 g

ISBN:9781108823357