1st Edition
Telling Stories A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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... Read more
General editor’s preface 1 Theorizing language 2 Analyzing textuality 3 The structures of narrative: story 4 The structures of narrative: narration 5 Decoding texts: ideology, subjectivity, discourse 6 The subject of narrative
Biography
Steven Cohan and Linda M. Shires are both Associate Professors of English at Syracuse University.
