Narrative Form by Suzanne Keen

Narrative Form by Suzanne Keen

This new handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction. With clearly-defined terms and up-to-date references to a broad array of narrative studies, Narrative Form explains critical vocabulary and offers a variety of strategies for analyzing the formal qualities of fiction. Keen suggests that interpretations of form can be effectively integrated with contemporary approaches to literature, including feminist, postcolonial and cultural studies methodologies. Narrative Form shows how to use the language of formal analysis accurately and innovatively. In clear, readable and accessible style, Keen defines terms and describes debates about: * Major Approaches to Narrative * Shapes of Narrative: A Whole of Parts * Narrative Situation: Who's Who and What's its Function * People on Paper: Character, Characterisation and Represented Minds * Plot and Causation: Related Events * Timing: How Long and How Often? * Order and Disorder * Levels: Realms of Existence * Fictional Worlds and Fictionality * Disguises: Fiction in the Form of Non-Fiction Texts * Genres and Conventions

'An authoritative and comprehensive advanced introduction to the terminology and concepts of narratologyProfessor Keen is an expert in this area.' - Professor J. Hillis Miller, UCI Distinguished Research Professor, University of California

SUZANNE KEEN is Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, where she teaches modern, contemporary and postcolonial narrative fiction. She is the author of two books on English fiction and articles on Thomas Hardy, Jeanette Winterson, Anthony Burgess, Peter Ackroyd and Seamus Heaney.

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ISBN 13	9780333960974
ISBN 10	0333960971
Title	Narrative Form
Author	Suzanne Keen
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Year published	2003-11-14
Number of pages	224
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