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Title: Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film by Seymour Chatman ISBN: 0-8014-9186-X Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1980 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Rhetoric and Narrative
Comment: Chatman's book has been around for a while, but it is still probably the best summary of structuralist narrative theory out there. Chatman makes the very important connection beetween narrative theory and its rhetorical effects on audience. His treatment of the construction of time in narrative summarizes several other prominent narrative theorists, but his terminology is perhaps the most useful. His clear presentation of the distinction between "story" and "discourse" (often called "l'histoire" and "recit" after Genette) and the linking of discourse to rhetorical theory is perhaps the book's most useful feature. Chatman, whose early works included a treatise on poetic meter, is known primarily as a film theorist, but his work analyzes narrative in many media and in many forms. I have used this book as an introduction to narrative theory in my classes.
Rating: 5
Summary: Useful for analyzing written and film narratives
Comment: This book offers, for me, the most understandable model of a narrative I've read so far. Chatman offers helpful concepts for analyzing both written and film narratives. He tries to create a synthesis of all narrative theory before his book, and he does a very good job. Instead of getting lost in a collection of different approaches, you actually find yourself connecting them all, seeing where they fit together.
Among all the books on narratology and narrative analysis I've read, this is the one most helpful not only for analyzing film narratives but also written narratives (although I would always recommend you also read "Narratology: An Introduction", "Narrative Fiction" and perhaps Bordwell and Thompson's " Film Art : An Introduction", if you want to focus especially on films).
This book and the way Chatman dissects the narrative are also interesting for people more interested in writing than in analysis: I believe the parts Chatman splits the narrative into resemble very closely those writers use in putting one together. So this book may actually help writers gain new insights into what they are doing instinctively.
First and foremost, however, it is a very useful book for the student and scholar of literature.
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Title: Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative by Mieke Bal, Mike Bal ISBN: 0802078060 Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Recent Theories of Narrative by Wallace Martin ISBN: 0801493552 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1986 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method by Gerard Genette, Jane E. Lewin, Jonathan Culler ISBN: 0801492599 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 1983 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative by H. Porter Abbott ISBN: 0521659698 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 11 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: A Dictionary of Narratology by Gerald Prince ISBN: 0803287763 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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