The narrator : a problem in narrative theory / Sylvie Patron and Catherine Porter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patron, Sylvie, 1969- author.

Porter, Catherine, 1941- author.

Series:

Frontiers of Narrative Series

Standardized Title:

Narrateur. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Narration (Rhetoric).

First person narrative.

Direct discourse in literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]

Summary:

The Narrator questions the dominance of the communicational paradigm in the theory and analysis of fictional narratives.

Contents:

Cover Page

Frontiers of Narrative

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1. Communicational Theories of Narrative: The Narrator in All Narratives

1. Genette: A Primitive Concept

2. Doležel (I): The Theory of Narrative Modes

3. Chatman (I): A Continuum Approach to the Issue of the Narrator

4. Stanzel: The Narrator and the Tripartition of Fictional Narrative

5. Speech Act Theory and Narratology

6. Fludernik, Nünning: The Cognitive Turn of Narratology

Part 2. Poetic Theories of Narrative: The Optional Narrator

7. Toward Another Reading of Hamburger

8. Kuroda: Communicational and Noncommunicational Theories of Language and of Narrative

9. Banfield: The Free Indirect Style at the Core of a Poetic Theory of Narrative

10. Deictic Shift Theory

Conclusion

Appendix 1: Enunciative Narratology: A French Speciality

Appendix 2: Selected Texts on the Narrator

Notes

References

Index of Names

Index of Subjects.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Patron, Sylvie The Narrator

ISBN:

9781496236968

1496236963

9781496236975

1496236971