Narrative is a powerful element of human culture, storing and
sharing the cherished parts of our personal memories and giving
structure to our laws, entertainment, and history. We experience
narrative in words, pictures, and film, yet regardless of how the
tale is told, story remains independent from the media that makes
it concrete. Narrative follows humans wherever they travel and
adapts readily to new forms of communication. Constantly evolving
and always up-to-date, narrative is a necessary strategy of human
expression and a fundamental component of human identity.
In order to understand human interaction, award-winning scholar
Rick Altman launches a close study of narrative's nature, its
variation in different contexts, and the method through which it
makes meaning. Altman's approach breaks away from traditional forms
of analysis, identifying three basic strategies: single-focus,
dual-focus, and multiple-focus. Unpacking an intentionally diverse
selection of texts, Altman demonstrates how these strategies
function in context and illustrates their theoretical and practical
applications in terms of textual analysis, literary and film
history, social organization, religion, and politics. He employs
inventive terminology and precise analytical methods throughout his
groundbreaking work, making this volume ideal for teaching literary
and film theory and for exploring the anatomy of narrative on a
more general level.
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