Narrative retellings : stylistic approaches / edited by Marina Lambrou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lambrou, Marina, editor.

Series:

Advances in stylistics.

Advances in stylistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narration (Rhetoric).

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Literary style.

Translation and Interpretation in Literary Studies.

Linguistics.

Stylistics.

Local Subjects:

Translation and Interpretation in Literary Studies.

Linguistics.

Stylistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

System Details:

text file

HTML

Summary:

"Presenting pioneering work at the intersection of stylistics and narrative study, this volume explores the many ways in which narratives are retold in literary and non-literary texts. Taking an empirical stylistic approach, chapters analyse the process of retelling across a rich variety of genres and contexts, including literary classics, contemporary horror, personal traumatic experience, news stories and cosmetic advertising. The volume reconceptualises common retellings, such as translation, adaptation and modernisation, and offers fresh insights into experiences retold as autofiction, witness statements and advertorials on social media"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction to Narrative Retellings, Marina Lambrou

Part I. Fictional Retellings

2. Restorying: The Creative Act of Re-telling, Jeremy Scott

3. Adaptation as a Communicative Act: Pride and Prejudice in a Hall of Mirrors, Anne Furlong

4. Narrative Retelling in McGahern's "Swallows": The Intensifying Power of Repetition and Return, Michael Toolan

5. Modern Retellings of Jane Austen, Joe Bray

6. Rewriting Misdirection: A Stylistic Approach to Crime Fiction Writing, Christiana Gregoriou

Part II. Factual Retellings

7. Siegfried Sassoon, Autofiction and Style: Retelling the Experience of War, Marcello Giovanelli

8. Retelling Catastrophe through Translation, Jean Boase-Beier

9. Retelling Hillsborough: A Critical Stylistic Analysis of Witness Statements, Patricia Canning

10. 'This is a Sponsored Post, But All Opinions Are My Own': Advertising (Re)tellings on Social Media, Helen Ringrow

Part III. Pedagogical Applications of Retellings

11. Intervening in Text-Worlds: Retelling, Text World Theory and Pedagogy, Ian Cushing

12. Retelling Stories across Languages and Cultures: Literary Imagination and Symbolic Competence, Chantelle Warner

13. Rereading as Retelling: Re-evaluations of Perspective in Narrative Fiction, Chloe Harrison and Louise Nuttall

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350120044

1350120049

9781350120037

1350120030

9781350120051

1350120057

OCLC:

1232279137