Essays in Narrative and Fictionality - Reassessing Nine Central Concepts (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)

This book brings together several major essays on foundational topics of narrative studies and the theory of fictionality by one of the preeminent figures of postclassical narrative theory. It reexamines and reconceives the role of the author, the status of implied authors, the model for unnatural narrative theory, the nature of narrative, and the ideological implications of narrative forms. It also explores the status of historical characters in fictional texts, the paradoxes of realism, the presence of multiple implied readers, the role of actual readers, and the question of fictionality. In addition, an appendix offers a useful approach for teaching narrative theory. The book includes analyses of works by Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Nabokov, Beckett, Jeanette Winterson, Deborah Eisenberg, and others. Throughout, it argues for a more expansive conception of narrative theory and keen attention to the nature and difference of fiction. This provocative book makes crucial interventions in ongoing critical debates about narrative theory, literary theory, and the theory of fictionality, and is essential reading for all students of narrative.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2021
Authors:	Brian Richardson
Dimensions:	212 x 148 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	180
Edition:	Unabridged edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-5275-6748-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General Promotions
LSN:	1-5275-6748-6
Barcode:	9781527567481

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