1st Edition

Narrative Concepts and Techniques in International Literary Fiction

By Ken Ireland Copyright 2025
242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

The omnipresence of narrative in our real-life experience and in the media world makes it a vital and relevant factor for study. This book presents an easily accessible guide to a series of key narrative topics, with concise entries in a transparent format of compact paragraphs allowing quick reference and omitting footnotes and endnotes to aid fluency. It uses throughout a wide range of... Read more

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1     Authors

2     Narrators and Readers

3     Narrative Forms

4     Narrative Components

5     Beginnings, Middles and Endings

6     Time and Space

7     Language and Style

8     Imagery

9     Characters and Speech

10   Genre

11   Intertexts and Transmedia

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

 

 

 

Biography

Ken Ireland is a former literature panel tutor at the University of Cambridge. Author of Thomas Hardy: Time and Narrative (2014), Cythera Regained? The Rococo Revival in European Literature and the Arts, 1830-1910 (2006), and The Sequential Dynamics of Narrative (2001), he has taught at universities in the US, Nigeria, and Japan, as well as for the Open University, the universities of London, Essex, and the UEA. He has published many articles and conference papers, and his research interests include international contemporary fiction, comparative literature, narrative theory and transmedia studies.