On Narrative (A Critical Inquiry Book)

Mitchell, W. J. T.

ISBN 10: 0226532178 / ISBN 13: 9780226532172

Published by University of Chicago Press Journals, Chicago, IL, 1981

About this Item

6th printing. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. About Fine w/curled front cover, else Fine and unmarked. x, 270pp inc. textual footnotes, Index. 280 p.

Seller Inventory # 036557

Bibliographic Details

• Title: On Narrative (A Critical Inquiry Book)
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press Journals, Chicago, IL
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226532178
• ISBN 13: 9780226532172
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Printing: 5th or later Printin
• Condition: About Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Wraps
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Non-Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

The fourteen distinguished contributors to this volume explore ways we tell, understand, and use stories. More important, through their exploration they collectively demonstrate that the study of narrative, like the study of other significant human creations, has taken a quantum leap in the modern era. No longer the province of literary specialists who borrow their terms from psychology or linguistics, the study of narrative has become and invaluable source of insight for all the branches of human and natural science. Multidisciplinary in scope, these essays dramatize and and clarify the most fundamental debates about the nature and value of narrative as a means by which human beings attempt to represent and make sense of the world.

About the Author

W. J. T. Mitchellis the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago and editor of "Critical Inquiry".