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For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal
work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars.
Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of
literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg in
the original edition offered a compelling history of the genre
narrative from antiquity to the twentieth-century, even as they
carried out their main task of describing and analyzing the nature
of narrative's main elements: meaning, character, plot, and point
of view. Their history emphasized the broad sweep of literary
narrative from ancient times to the contemporary period, and it
included a chapter on the oral heritage of written narrative and an
appendix on the interior monologue in ancient texts.
The fortieth anniversary edition of this groundbreaking work has
been revised and expanded to include a new preface and a lengthy
chapter on developments in narrative theory since 1966 by James
Phelan. This chapter describes the principles and practices of
structuralist, cognitive, feminist, and rhetorical approaches to
narrative, paying special attention to their work on plot,
character, and narrative discourse.
A continued leader in the field of narrative studies, The Nature
of Narrative offers unique and invaluable histories of both
narrative and narrative theory.
For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal
work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars.
Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of
literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg in
the original edition offered a compelling history of the genre
narrative from antiquity to the twentieth-century, even as they
carried out their main task of describing and analyzing the nature
of narrative's main elements: meaning, character, plot, and point
of view. Their history emphasized the broad sweep of literary
narrative from ancient times to the contemporary period, and it
included a chapter on the oral heritage of written narrative and an
appendix on the interior monologue in ancient texts.
The fortieth anniversary edition of this groundbreaking work has
been revised and expanded to include a new preface and a lengthy
chapter on developments in narrative theory since 1966 by James
Phelan. This chapter describes the principles and practices of
structuralist, cognitive, feminist, and rhetorical approaches to
narrative, paying special attention to their work on plot,
character, and narrative discourse.
A continued leader in the field of narrative studies, The Nature
of Narrative offers unique and invaluable histories of both
narrative and narrative theory.
Icelandic literary culture was one of the richest and most
important in the medieval world. Texts that were written in Iceland
during this period include Njal's Saga, Egil's Saga, The Vinland
Sagas, as well as the Comic Sagas and Tales collected in this
volume. Comic Sagas and Tales brings together the finest comic
stories from medieval Iceland. With feuding families and moments of
grotesque violence, the sagas see such classic mythological figures
as murdered fathers, disguised beggars, corrupt chieftains and
avenging sons do battle with axes, words and cunning. The tales,
meanwhile, follow heroes and comical fools through dreams, voyages
and religious conversions in Iceland and beyond. Shaped by
Iceland's oral culture and their conversion to Christianity, these
stories are works of ironic humour and stylistic innovation. In the
introduction to these new translations, Vidar Hreinsson examines
how the stories satirised old-style sagas while exploiting their
classic themes of quests and revenge. This edition also includes a
map, glossary, index of characters, suggested further reading and
notes.
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