Kent Puckett's Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction provides
an account of a methodology increasingly central to literary
studies, film studies, history, psychology and beyond. In addition
to introducing readers to some of the field's major figures and
their ideas, Puckett situates critical and philosophical approaches
towards narrative within a longer intellectual history. The book
reveals one of narrative theory's founding claims - that narratives
need to be understood in terms of a formal relation between story
and discourse, between what they narrate and how they narrate it -
both as a necessary methodological distinction and as a problem
characteristic of modern thought. Puckett thus shows that narrative
theory is not only a powerful descriptive system but also a complex
and sometimes ironic form of critique. Narrative Theory offers
readers an introduction to the field's key figures, methods and
ideas, and it also reveals that field as unexpectedly central to
the history of ideas.
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