1st Edition

An Introduction to Narratology

By Monika Fludernik Copyright 2009
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

An Introduction to Narratology is an accessible, practical guide to narratological theory and terminology and its application to literature. In this book, Monika Fludernik outlines: the key concepts of style, metaphor and metonymy, and the history of narrative forms narratological approaches to interpretation and the linguistic aspects of texts, including new cognitive... Read more

Preface  1. Narrative and Narrating  2. The Theory of Narrative  3. Text and Authorship  4. The Structure of Narrative  5. The Surface of Narrative  6. Realism, Illusionism and Metafiction  7. Language, the Representation of Speech, and the Stylistics of Narrative  8. Thoughts, Feelings and the Unconscious  9. Narrative Typologies  10. Diachronic Approaches to Narrative  11. Practical Applications  12. Guidelines for Budding Narratologists.  Glossary of Narratological Terms.  Works Cited.  Index

Biography

Monika Fludernik is Professor of English at the University of Freiburg/Germany. She is the author of The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction (Routledge, 1993) and Towards a 'Natural' Narratology (Routledge, 1996), which was the co-winner of the Perkins Prize of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature.