Small Quarto, ix, xvi, xvii, 571 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Paperback binding. Spine white with black and green lettering. Covers show very light wear including minimal soiling. Text block has very mild wear including sparse, tiny marks to the edges and slight pencil interiorly. Illustrated. First paperback edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column K (ND-K). 1394841. FP New Rockville Stock.

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Title

A COMPANION TO NARRATIVE THEORY

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Limited, Malden and Oxford

Publication Date

2008

Language

English

ISBN 10

1405184388

ISBN 13

9781405184380

Binding

Softcover

Edition

First Paperback Edition.

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Synopsis

The 35 original essays in A Companion to Narrative Theory constitute the best available introduction to this vital and contested field of humanistic enquiry.

Comprises 35 original essays written by leading figures in the field
Includes contributions from pioneers in the field such as Wayne C. Booth, Seymour Chatman, J. Hillis Miller and Gerald Prince
Represents all the major critical approaches to narrative and investigates and debates the relations between them
Considers narratives in different disciplines, such as law and medicine
Features analyses of a variety of media, including film, music, and painting
Designed to be of interest to specialists, yet accessible to readers with little prior knowledge of the field

About the Author

James Phelan is Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is the editor of the journal Narrative and the author of several books in narrative theory, the most recent of which are Living to Tell About It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration (2005) and Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative (2007).

Peter J. Rabinowitz is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College. His previous publications include Before Reading (1987) and Authorizing Readers (coauthored with Michael Smith, 1998). He is also a music critic and serves as a contributing editor of Fanfare.

Phelan and Rabinowitz are coeditors of the Ohio State University Press series on the Theory and Interpretation of Narrative, which now has more than twenty-five titles to its credit.

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