ABSTRACT

This text provides an excellent introduction and overview of Narratology, a rapidly growing field in the humanities. Literary narratologists have provided many key concepts and analytical tools which are widely used in the interdisciplinary analysis of such narrative features as plot, point of view, speech presentation, ideological perspective and interpretation.

The introduction explains the central concepts of narratology, their historical development, and draws together contemporary trends from many different disciplines into common focus. It offers a compendium of the development of narratology from classical poetics to the present.

The essays are all prefaced by individual forewords helping the reader to place each individual selection in context. Recent developments are assessed across disciplines, highlighting the mutual influences of narratology and deconstruction, psychoanalysis, feminism, film and media studies.


chapter |41 pages

Introduction

part 1|47 pages

Narrative structure: fabula

part 3|72 pages

Narrative structure: text

part 4|34 pages

Narratology and film

chapter 14|17 pages

Focalisation in Film Narrative*

chapter 15|15 pages

Story World and Screen *

part 5|47 pages

Post-structuralist narratology

chapter 16|11 pages

Reading for the Plot*

chapter 17|11 pages

Desire in Narrative *

chapter 19|10 pages

Line*