Telling Stories
A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction
Series: New Accents
List Price: $34.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-01387-1
- Binding: Paperback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 10/20/1988
- Pages: 208
- Trim Size: 198X129
About the Book
Telling Stories overturns traditional definitions of narrative by arguing that any story, whether a Bette Davis film, a jeans ad, a Jane Austen novel of a 'Cathy' comic, must be related to larger cultural networks. The authors show how meanings and subjectivity do not exist in isolation, but are manufactured by the narratives our culture reads and watches every day. They call for a critical practice that, through the fracturing of texts, can alter the grounds of knowledge and interpretation. This timely study will interest critics of narrative and culture, as well as students wanting to extend post-Saussurean theories to poopular and canonical cultures, and to the dynamics of story-telling itself.You may also be interested in:
Myth
Laurence Coupe offers students a comprehensive overview of the development of myth, showing how mythic themes, structures and symbols persist in literature and entertainment today....
To be published 12/09/2008 | 978-0-415-44284-8
The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitré
This two-volume set collects 300 of the most entertaining and important folk and fairy tales of Giuseppe Pitré, a nineteenth century Sicilian folklorist whose significance...
Published 07/23/2008 | 978-0-415-98030-2
more information about The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitré
The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitré
This two-volume set collects 300 of the most entertaining and important folk and fairy tales of Giuseppe Pitré, a nineteenth century Sicilian folklorist whose significance...
Published 07/23/2008 | 978-0-415-98031-9
more information about The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitré