Phelan / Rabinowitz A Companion to Narrative Theory

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5196-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 592 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

The 35 original essays in A Companion to Narrative Theoryconstitute the best available introduction to this vital andcontested field of humanistic enquiry.
* Comprises 35 original essays written by leading figures in thefield
* Includes contributions from pioneers in the field such as WayneC. Booth, Seymour Chatman, J. Hillis Miller and Gerald Prince
* Represents all the major critical approaches to narrative andinvestigates and debates the relations between them
* Considers narratives in different disciplines, such as law andmedicine
* Features analyses of a variety of media, including film, music,and painting
* Designed to be of interest to specialists, yet accessible toreaders with little prior knowledge of the field

Autoren/Hrsg.

Phelan, James

Rabinowitz, Peter J.

Über Autor(innen)

James Phelan is Humanities Distinguished Professor ofEnglish at Ohio State University. He is the editor of the journalNarrative and the author of several books in narrativetheory, the most recent of which are Living to Tell About It: ARhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration (2005) andExperiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and theRhetorical Theory of Narrative (2007).
Peter J. Rabinowitz is Professor and Chair of ComparativeLiterature at Hamilton College. His previous publications includeBefore Reading (1987) and Authorizing Readers(coauthored with Michael Smith, 1998). He is also a music criticand serves as a contributing editor of Fanfare.
Phelan and Rabinowitz are coeditors of the Ohio State UniversityPress series on the Theory and Interpretation of Narrative, whichnow has more than twenty-five titles to its credit.