Reading Narrative Discourse: Studies in the Novel from Cervantes to Beckett

by Andrew Gibson

The book deals with narrative material of primarily two sorts-that produced for a reading audience and that produced for a viewing audience. The author looks at the relationships between audiences and their needs fro narrative, audiences and their pleasures from narrative, and audiences and their judgments of narrative.

177 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1990

Reviews

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These are some really nice against-the-grain readings. I read them out of order, but sequentially they build a larger argument about a narrative logic based on contradiction rather than coherence very nicely.