The nature of narrative / Robert Scholes, James Phelan, Robert Kellogg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scholes, Robert, 1929-2016, author.

Phelan, James, 1951- author.

Kellogg, Robert L. (Robert Leland), 1928-2004, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (405 p.)

Edition:

Fortieth anniversary ed., rev. and expanded.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg in the original edition offered a compelling history of the genre narrative from antiquity to the twentieth-century, even as they carried out their main task of describing and analyzing the nature of narrative's main elements: meaning, character, plot, and point of view. Their history emphasized the broad sweep of literary narrative from anc

Contents:

Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; 1. The Narrative Tradition; 2. The Oral Heritage of Written Narrative; 3. The Classical Heritage of Modern Narrative; 4. Meaning in Narrative; 5. Character in Narrative; 6. Plot in Narrative; 7. Point of View in Narrative; 8. Narrative Theory, 1966-2006: A Narrative; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-377) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772543-0

0-19-983782-1

1-282-97784-9

9786612977848

1-4416-8489-1

OCLC:

707067809