Storytelling and drama : exploring narrative episodes in plays / Hugo Bowles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowles, Hugo.

Series:

Linguistic approaches to literature ; v. 8.

Linguistic approaches to literature, 1569-3112 ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narration (Rhetoric).

Drama--Technique.

Drama.

Dialogue.

Discourse analysis, Literary.

Storytelling in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do characters tell stories in plays and for what dramatic purpose? This volume provides the first systematic analysis of narrative episodes in drama from an interactional perspective, applying sociolinguistic theories of narrative and insights from conversation analysis to literary dialogue. The aim of the book is to show how narration can become drama and how analysis of the way a character tells a story can be the key to understanding its role in the unfolding action. The book's interactional approach, which analyses the way in which the characteristic features of everyday conversational stories are used by dramatists to create literary effects, offers an additional tool for dramatic criticism. The book should be of interest to scholars and students of narrative research, conversation and discourse analysis, stylistics, dramatic discourse and theatre studies.

Contents:

Narrative and dramatic discourse

An interactional approach to storytelling

Analysing and classifying stories

Tellability : discourse features and strategies

Small stories

Remembering and dreaming

Challenging stories

Being the narrator.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612484988

9781282484986

1282484982

9789027288691

9027288690

OCLC:

649901741