The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative
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The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative

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The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative

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What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, film, and theatre, but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives. This widely used introduction, now revised and expanded in its third edition, is informed throughout by recent developments in the field and includes one new chapter. The glossary and bibliography have been expanded, and new sections explore unnatural narrative, retrograde narrative, reader-resistant narratives, intermedial narrative, narrativity, and multiple interpretation. With its lucid exposition of concepts, and suggestions for further reading, this book is not only an excellent introduction for courses focused on narrative but also an invaluable resource for students and scholars across a wide range of fields, including literature and drama, film and media, society and politics, journalism, autobiography, history, and still others throughout the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Preface to the Third Edition
  9. Preface to the Second Edition
  10. Preface to the First Edition
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. 1 Narrative and Life
  13. 2 Defining Narrative
  14. 3 The Borders of Narrative
  15. 4 The Rhetoric of Narrative
  16. 5 Closure
  17. 6 Narration
  18. 7 Interpreting Narrative
  19. 8 Three Ways to Interpret Narrative
  20. 9 Adaptation Across Media
  21. 10 Character and Self in Narrative
  22. 11 Narrative and Truth
  23. 12 Narrative Worlds
  24. 13 Narrative Contestation
  25. 14 Narrative Negotiation: Conflict Revisited
  26. 15 Narrative Negotiation: Closure Revisited
  27. Notes
  28. Select Bibliography
  29. Glossary and Topical Index
  30. Index of Authors and Narratives
  31. Cambridge Introductions to…