NarrativePsychology Press, 2001 - 267 pages This comprehensive, accessible guidebook traces the ways in which human beings have used narrative to make sense of time, space and identity over the centuries. Particular attention is given to: * early narrative, from Hellenic and Hebraic * the rise of the novel * realist representation * imperialism and narrative * modernism and cinema * postmodern narrative * narrative and new technologies. With a strong emphasis on clarity and a range of examples from oral cultures to cyberspace, this is the ideal guide to an essential critical topic. |
Contents
In the beginning the end | 8 |
Story plot and narrative | 8 |
Sequence | 8 |
Space | 12 |
Time | 16 |
Phylogeny and ontogeny | 21 |
Early narrative | 29 |
Narrative and history | 30 |
Realism and the voices of narrative | 104 |
Narrative with dirt under its fingernails | 107 |
Beyond realism | 117 |
Imperialism and repression | 121 |
Imperialism and sexuality | 125 |
Narrative imperialism and the conflict of Western identity | 130 |
The reader and the narrative | 132 |
Narrative levels | 136 |
Orality literacy and narrative | 32 |
Universality and narrative | 33 |
Narrative and identity | 37 |
Hellenic and Hebraic foundations | 41 |
Hybridity and the Western tradition | 51 |
A voyage to the self | 53 |
The rise and rise of the novel | 56 |
Mimesis | 57 |
Aristotelian mimesis | 61 |
Imitation quotation and identity | 63 |
Epic identity and the mixed mode | 67 |
Questioning the voice in the Middle Ages | 70 |
The low form of the romance and the rise of the novel | 74 |
The triple rise thesis and beyond | 77 |
Instruction telling and narrative mode | 81 |
Realist representation | 88 |
Secretaries to the nineteenth century | 89 |
Battles over realism | 91 |
Middlemarch and classic realism | 94 |
Omniscient narration | 100 |
Modernism and the cinema | 144 |
Writing in light | 151 |
The cinema and modernism | 161 |
Just another realism? | 165 |
Postmodernism | 169 |
Meta levels | 172 |
History | 177 |
The decline of the grand narrative | 181 |
New technologies | 187 |
In the end the beginning | 199 |
Narrative in cyberspace | 200 |
Reading narrative | 203 |
Diversity and genres | 207 |
Closure verisimilitude | 213 |
The future of the narrative sign | 221 |
GLOSSARY | 227 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 244 |
INDEX | 259 |
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