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Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 302 ratings — published 1978
Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 542 ratings — published 1978
Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 548 ratings — published 1979
The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 636 ratings — published 2002
Time and Narrative, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 767 ratings — published 1983
Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 272 ratings — published 1984
Transparent Minds (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 115 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 — 163 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 4.22 — 18 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 — 3,930 ratings — published 1970
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,311 ratings — published 1961
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,082 ratings — published 1927
The Theory of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,530 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 3.82 — 88 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 — 1,992 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 4.22 — 9 ratings — published
Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 20 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 3.29 — 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 — 30,871 ratings — published -335
Fictional Minds (Frontiers of Narrative)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.79 — 39 ratings — published 2004
The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 220 ratings — published 1987
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,268 ratings — published 1949
Narrative Causalities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 2006
Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 86 ratings — published 2000
The Political Unconscious (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,178 ratings — published 1981
Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature (Routledge Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 194 ratings — published 1975
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 3.84 — 973 ratings — published 1957
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,252 ratings — published 1928
Characters & Viewpoint (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,746 ratings — published 1988
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,857 ratings — published 1942
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,913 ratings — published 1987
Theory of Prose (Russian Literature)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 280 ratings — published 1925
A Dictionary of Narratology (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 73 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
“It doesn't matter whether a sequence of words is called a history or a story: that is, whether it is intended to follow a sequence of actual events or not. As far as its verbal shape is concerned, it will be equally mythical in either case. But we notice that any emphasis on shape or structure or pattern or form always throws a verbal narrative in the direction we call mythical rather than historical.(p.21)”
― Biblical and Classical Myths: The Mythological Framework of Western Culture
― Biblical and Classical Myths: The Mythological Framework of Western Culture
“I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.”
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