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Narrative Theory Books
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Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 545 ratings — published 1979
The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 634 ratings — published 2002
Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.80 — 301 ratings — published 1978
Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 542 ratings — published 1978
Time and Narrative, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 766 ratings — published 1983
Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 270 ratings — published 1984
Transparent Minds (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 114 ratings — published 1978
The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 161 ratings — published 1986
Intertextuality (New Critical Idiom)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 296 ratings — published 2000
A Companion to Narrative Theory (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 19 ratings — published 2005
Towards a 'Natural' Narratology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 26 ratings — published 1996
Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 40 ratings — published 1991
Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 206 ratings — published 1987
On Meaning: Selected Writings in Semiotic Theory (Theory and History of Literature)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 31 ratings — published 1983
Unspeakable sentences: Narration and representation in the language of fiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.62 — 8 ratings — published 1982
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,627 ratings — published 1975
S/Z: An Essay (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,928 ratings — published 1970
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,304 ratings — published 1961
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,051 ratings — published 1927
The Theory of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,518 ratings — published 1916
Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 30 ratings — published 2005
The Cambridge Companion to Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 87 ratings — published 2007
Affective Narratology: The Emotional Structure of Stories (Frontiers of Narrative)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.49 — 37 ratings — published 2011
Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 50 ratings — published 1999
The Novel and The Police (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 95 ratings — published 1989
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,988 ratings — published 1957
Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 58 ratings — published 2006
The Cambridge Companion to Narrative Theory (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.25 — 8 ratings — published
Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 19 ratings — published
Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates (Theory and Interpretation of Narrative)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.82 — 51 ratings — published 2012
Towards a Postmodern Theory of Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.43 — 7 ratings — published 1996
Narrative as Rhetoric: Technique, Audiences, Ethics, Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.68 — 22 ratings — published 1996
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,618 ratings — published -335
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,050 ratings — published 1949
The Political Unconscious (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,172 ratings — published 1981
The Poetics of Prose (English and French Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.77 — 131 ratings — published 1971
The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.85 — 972 ratings — published 1957
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,234 ratings — published 1928
Characters & Viewpoint (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,736 ratings — published 1988
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,826 ratings — published 1942
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,828 ratings — published 1987
Theory of Prose (Russian Literature)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 278 ratings — published 1925
A Dictionary of Narratology (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 72 ratings — published 1987
Postmodern Narrative Theory (Transitions)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.77 — 52 ratings — published 1998
Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative (Frontiers of Narrative)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 22 ratings — published 2002
Reading the Times: Temporality and History in Twentieth-Century Fiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Time and Narrative, Volume 3 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 194 ratings — published 1983
Reading Narrative: Form, Ethics, Ideology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-theory)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1989
Narrative Fiction: Contemporay Poetics (Routledge New Accents)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.61 — 319 ratings — published 1983
The Narrative Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.67 — 24 ratings — published 2000
“The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being lost; a text's unity lies not in its origin but in its destination. Yet this destination cannot any longer be personal: the reader is without history, biography, psychology; he is simply that someone who holds together in a single field all the traces by which the written text is constituted…Classic criticism has never paid any attention to the reader; for it, the writer is the only person in literature…we know that to give writing its future, it is necessary to overthrow the myth: the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author. [Final passage in "The Death of the Author," in Image-Music-Text, by Roland Barthes, Trans. Stephen Heath (1977)]”
― The Death of the Author
― The Death of the Author
“When governments talk of truth and reconciliation, and then push unwanted infrastructure projects, please remember this: There can be no truth unless we admit to the 'why' behind centuries of abuse and land theft. And there can be no reconciliation when the crime is still in progress.
Only when we have the courage to tell the truth about our old stories will the new stories arrive to guide us. Stories that recognize that the natural world and all its inhabitants have limits. Stories that teach us how to care for each other and regenerate life within those limits. Stories that put an end to the myth of endlessness once and for all.”
― On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
Only when we have the courage to tell the truth about our old stories will the new stories arrive to guide us. Stories that recognize that the natural world and all its inhabitants have limits. Stories that teach us how to care for each other and regenerate life within those limits. Stories that put an end to the myth of endlessness once and for all.”
― On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal