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Story and discourse : narrative structure in fiction and film
Barcode:
R27251M2250
Author:
Chatman, Seymour
Volume:
Serial Title:
Subject:
Moving pictures -- History;; Narration (Rhetoric);; Narrative - Discourse analysis;; Moving pictures;; Arts, Language;
Publisher:
Cornell University Press
Publish Year:
1993
Keywords:
STORY DISCOURSE FICTION FILM NARRATIVE
Type of Material:
Book
Call Number:
3SV 700.1 CHA
ISBN:
080149186X
Notes:
Contents: 1. Introduction. Narrative and poetics ; Elements of a narrative theory ; Is narrative a semiotic structure ; Manifestation and physical object ; Narrative inference selection and coherence ; A sketch of narrative structure ; A comic strip example ; "Reading" and "Reading out" -- 2. Story : events. Sequence contingency causality ; Verisimilitude and motivation ; Kernels and satellites ; Stories ans antistories ; Suspense and suprise ; Time and plot ; Order duration and frequency ; How time distinctions are manifested ; Narrative macrostructure and the typology of plot -- 3. Story : existents. Story-space and discourse-space ; Story-space in cinematice narrative ; Story-space in verbal narrative ; Story-existents : character ; Aristotle's theory of character ; Formalist and structuralist conceptions of character ; Todorov and Barthes on character ; Are characters open or closed constructs ; Toward an open theory of character ; Character : a paradigm of traits ; Kinds of character ; A.C. Bradley and the analysis of character ; Setting. 4. Discourse : nonnarrated stories ; Real author, implied author, narrator, real reader, implied reader, narratee ; Point of view and its relation to narrative voice ; Point of view in film ; Narrators' and characters' speech acts ; Nonnarrated representation in general ; Nonnarrated types : written records ; Pure speech records ; Soliloquy ; Records of thought : direct free style = interior monologue ; Stream of consciousness = free association ; Interior monologue ; Stream of consciousness = free association ; Interior monologue in the cinema -- 5. Discourse : covert versus overt narrators. Covert narrators ; Indirect tagged and free style ; The manipulation of sentences for narrative purposes : presupposition as an example ; Limitation of authority in narrative transmission ; Shifting limited versus omniscient mental access ; Overt narration : set descriptions ; Overt narration : temporal summaries ; Reports of what characters did not think or say ; Ethos and commentary ; Commentary ; Implicit commentary : ironic narrator and unreliable narrator ; Commentary on the story : interpretation ; Commentary on the story : judgement ; Commentary on the story : generalization ; Commentary on the discourse ; The narratee.
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