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The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative

ISBN: 9780521715157 | 0521715156

Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 4/7/2008

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Summary Table of Contents

This thoroughly revised second edition of this widely used textbook takes recent developments in the field into account, and includes two new chapters. Organised to be used throughout a narrative studies course, it includes many textbook features, examples and suggestions for further reading.

What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives and the texts we read? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, film, and theater, but everywhere in the ordinary course of... MORE

Preface
Preface to the second edition
Acknowledgments
Narrative and life
Defining narrative
The borders of narrative
The rhetoric of narrative
Closure
Narration
Interpreting narrative
Three ways to interpret narrative
Adaptation across media	... MORE
Character and self in narrative
Narrative and truth
Narrative worlds
Narrative contestation
Narrative negotiation
Bibliography
Glossary and topical index
Index of authors and narratives
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