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Narratology (Hardcover)
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Narratology (Hardcover)
Series: Classics in Theory Series
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This volume explores the extraordinary contribution that classical
poetics has made to twentieth and twenty-first century theories of
narrative, aiming not to argue that modern narratologies simply
present 'old wine in new wineskins', but rather to identify the
diachronic affinities shared between ancient and modern stories
about storytelling. By recognizing that modern narratologists bring
a particular expertise to bear upon ancient literary theory, and by
interrogating ancient and modern narratologies through the mutually
imbricating dynamics of their reception, it seeks to arrive at a
better understanding of both. Each chapter selects a key moment in
the history of narratology on which to focus, providing an overview
of significant phases before offering detailed analyses of core
theories and texts, from the Russian formalists and Chicago school
neo-Aristotelians, through the prestructuralists, structuralists,
and poststructuralists, up to the latest unnatural and antimimetic
narratologists. The reception history that thus unfolds offers some
remarkable plot twists and yields valuable insights into the
interpretation of some notoriously difficult ancient works. Plato
in the Republic is unmasked as an unreliable narrator and theorist,
while Aristotle's On Poets reveals a rare glimpse of the
philosopher putting narrative theory into practice in the role of
storyteller. Horace's Ars Poetica and the works of ancient scholia
by critics and commentators evince a rhetorically conceived poetics
and sophisticated reader-response-based narratology which indicate
a keen interest in audience affect and cognition - anticipating the
cognitive turn in narratology's most recent postclassical phase.
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