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The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative

Authors

H. Porter Abbott, University of Santa Barbara
Published 2020

Description

What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, film, and theatre, but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives. This widely used introduction, now revised and expanded in its third edition, is informed throughout by recent developments in the field and includes one new chapter. The glossary and bibliography have been expanded, and new sections explore unnatural narrative, retrograde narrative, reader-resistant…

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Key features

  • Applies and draws examples from conversation, the law, all major media (including electronic modes), and great works of art
  • Focuses on those terms and distinctions that are most useful in understanding narrative
  • Proceeds from the basics to the more complex and challenging dimensions of the Narrative

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