Essays in narrative and fictionality : reassessing nine central concepts / by Brian Richardson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richardson, Brian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narration (Rhetoric).

Fiction--Technique.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 pages)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021.

Summary:

This book brings together several major essays on foundational topics of narrative studies and the theory of fictionality by one of the preeminent figures of postclassical narrative theory. It reexamines and reconceives the role of the author, the status of implied authors, the model for unnatural narrative theory, the nature of narrative, and the ideological implications of narrative forms. It also explores the status of historical characters in fictional texts, the paradoxes of realism, the presence of multiple implied readers, the role of actual readers, and the question of fictionality. In addition, an appendix offers a useful approach for teaching narrative theory. The book includes analyses of works by Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Nabokov, Beckett, Jeanette Winterson, Deborah Eisenberg, and others. Throughout, it argues for a more expansive conception of narrative theory and keen attention to the nature and difference of fiction. This provocative book makes crucial interventions in ongoing critical debates about narrative theory, literary theory, and the theory of fictionality, and is essential reading for all students of narrative.

Contents:

Intro

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Conclusion

Appendix I

Appendix II

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-5275-7146-7

OCLC:

1259590854