The Narrative ReaderMartin McQuillan The Narrative Reader provides a comprehensive survey of theories of narrative from Plato to Post-Structuralism. The selection of texts is bold and broad, demonstrating the extent to which narrative permeates the entire field of literature and culture. It shows the ways in which narrative crosses disciplines, continents and theoretical perspectives and will fascinate students and researchers alike, providing a long overdue point of entry to the complex field of narrative theory. Canonical texts are combined with those which are difficult to obtain elsewhere, and there are new translations and introductory material. The texts cover crucial issues including: * formalism * responses to narratology * psychoanalysis * phenomenology * deconstruction * structuralism * narrative and sexual difference * race * history The final section is designed to guide the student reader through the texts, and includes a helpful chronology of narrative theory, a glossary of narrative terms, and a checklist of narrative theories. |
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Contents
openings | 35 |
Twentiethcentury Analysis | 44 |
Mikhail Bakhtin from The Dialogic Imagination | 53 |
Stylistic Commentary | 63 |
Wayne Booth from The Rhetoric of Fiction | 69 |
Structuralism | 75 |
Mieke Bal from Narratology | 81 |
Theories | 91 |
Stephen Heath Narrative Space | 184 |
Elizabeth Bronfen Spectral Stories | 192 |
Sexual Difference | 198 |
Teresa de Lauretis Desire in Narrative | 204 |
Sexuality and Narrative | 212 |
Deconstruction | 220 |
Paul de Man Reading Proust | 227 |
BartheSBalZac | 238 |
Gerald Prince Introduction to the Study of the Narratee | 99 |
Readings | 109 |
Umberto Eco Narrative Structure in Ian Fleming | 115 |
Gerald Prince On Narratology Past Present Future | 129 |
Responses | 138 |
Peter Brooks from Reading for the Plot | 145 |
Andrew Gibson from Towards a Postmodern Theory of Narrative | 152 |
Donald N McCloskey Storytelling in Economics | 161 |
John Berger Stories | 170 |
PART II | 177 |
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