Narrative Discourse

Narrative Discourse
Author: Gérard Genette
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1980
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780801492594

Genette uses Proust's Remembrance of Things Past as a work to identify and name the basic constituents and techniques of narrative. Genette illustrates the examples by referring to other literary works. His systemic theory of narrative deals with the structure of fiction, including fictional devices that go unnoticed and whose implications fulfill the Western narrative tradition.

Story and Discourse

Story and Discourse
Author: Seymour Chatman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2019-06-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1501741616

"For the specialist in the study of narrative structure, this is a solid and very perceptive exploration of the issues salient to the telling of a story—whatever the medium. Chatman, whose approach here is at once dualist and structuralist, divides his subject into the 'what' of the narrative (Story) and the 'way' (Discourse)... Chatman's command of his material is impressive."—Library Journal

Discourse and Narrative Methods

Discourse and Narrative Methods
Author: Mona Livholts
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2015-04-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1473927757

Discourses and narratives are crucial in how we understand a world of rapid changes. This textbook constitutes a unique introduction to two major influential theoretical and methodological fields - discourse and narrative methods - and examines them in their interrelation. It offers readers an orientation within the broad and contested area of discourse and narrative methods and develops concrete analytical strategies to those who wish to explore both or one of these fields as well as their overlaps. Illustrated with examples from real life and real research, this book: Maps the theoretical influence from poststructuralist, postmodern, postcolonial and feminist ideas on the field of discourse and narrative. Acts as a guide to the most central analytical approaches in discourse and narrative studies supported by concrete examples of analytical strategies. Presents a variety of oral, textual, visual and other ’data’ for the purpose of analyzing discourse and narrative. Offers deeper insight into discourse and narrative methods within three themes of crucial importance for changing global context: media and society, gender and space, and autobiography and life writing. Acts as a helpful guide to situated writing based on concrete workshop exercises, which promotes ethical reflexivity, analytical thinking and creative engagement in the study of discourses and narratives.

Narrative Discourse Revisited

Narrative Discourse Revisited
Author: Gérard Genette
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1988
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780801495359

In Narrative Discourse Revisited Genette both answers critics of the earlier work and provides a better-defined, richer, and more systematic view of narrative form and functioning. This book not only clarifies some of the more complex issues in the study of narrative but also provides a vivid tableau of the development of narratology over the decade between the two works.

Patterns of Narrative Discourse

Patterns of Narrative Discourse
Author: Allyssa McCabe
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2003
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Multicultural backgrounds are taken into consideration when dealing with assessment, intervention and education."--BOOK JACKET.

Fictions of Discourse

Fictions of Discourse
Author: Patrick O'Neill
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780802079480

O'Neill investigates the extent to which narrative discourse subverts the story it tells in foregrounding its own performance.

Analyzing Narrative

Analyzing Narrative
Author: Anna De Fina
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2011-11-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1139502581

The socially minded linguistic study of storytelling in everyday life has been rapidly expanding. This book provides a critical engagement with this dynamic field of narrative studies, addressing long-standing questions such as definitions of narrative and views of narrative structure but also more recent preoccupations such as narrative discourse and identities, narrative language, power and ideologies. It also offers an overview of a wide range of methodologies, analytical modes and perspectives on narrative from conversation analysis to critical discourse analysis, to linguistic anthropology and ethnography of communication. The discussion engages with studies of narrative in multiple situational and cultural settings, from informal-intimate to institutional. It also demonstrates how recent trends in narrative analysis, such as small stories research, positioning analysis and sociocultural orientations, have contributed to a new paradigm that approaches narratives not simply as texts, but rather as complex communicative practices intimately linked with the production of social life.

Narrative Prosthesis

Narrative Prosthesis
Author: David T. Mitchell
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2014-05-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0472120808

Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting their experience, the marginality of disabled people has occurred in the midst of the perpetual circulation of images of disability in print and visual media. The manuscript's six chapters offer comparative readings of key texts in the history of disability representation, including the tin soldier and lame Oedipus, Montaigne's "infinities of forms" and Nietzsche's "higher men," the performance history of Shakespeare's Richard III, Melville's Captain Ahab, the small town grotesques of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and Katherine Dunn's self-induced freaks in Geek Love. David T. Mitchell is Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies, Northern Michigan University. Sharon L. Snyder is Assistant Professor of Film and Literature, Northern Michigan University.

Herodotean Narrative and Discourse

Herodotean Narrative and Discourse
Author: Mabel L. Lang
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1984
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780674389854

Mabel Lang offers a new interpretation of Herodotus. Her reading of the "Father of History" pinpoints the aspects of his style that clearly derive from oral composition. Lang examines oral techniques in storytelling, known from folktales and other oral literature as well as from Homer. She shows how the dramatic use of speeches--so characteristic of folk literature--played an important part in Herodotus' development of history out of the chronologies and geographies that he knew. Story form and speeches attributed to historical persons, she demonstrates, follow traditional formulas. She also studies in detail Herodotus' distinctive use of proverbs and rhetorical questions. Throughout, Lang draws on a variety of materials and offers particularly revealing comparisons of Homeric and Herodotean styles. This analysis of the evidence for oral composition in Herodotus' Histories opens a new perspective for students and scholars of Greek history.

Selves and Identities in Narrative and Discourse

Selves and Identities in Narrative and Discourse
Author: Michael G. W. Bamberg
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2007
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027226495

The different traditions that have inspired the contributors to this volume can be divided along three different orientations, one that is rooted predominantly in sociolinguistics, a second that is ethnomethodologically informed, and a third that came in the wake of narrative interview research. All three share a commitment to view self and identity not as essential properties of the person but as constituted in discursive practices and particularly in narrative. Moreover, since self and identity are held to be phenomena that are contextually and continually generated, they are defined and viewed in the plural, as selves and identities. In the attempt of moving closer toward a process-oriented approach to the formation of selves and identities, this volume sets the stage for future discussions of the role of narrative and discourse in this generation process and for how a close analysis of these processes can advance an understanding of the world around us and within this world, of identities and selves.