Narrative in fiction and film : an introduction
by
Lothe, Jakob.
Title
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Narrative in fiction and film : an introduction
Author
:
Lothe, Jakob.
ISBN
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9780198752325
Personal Author
:
Lothe, Jakob.
Uniform Title
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Fiksjon og film. English
Publication Information
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2000.
Physical Description
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xii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents
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Introduction -- Narrative communication -- Narrative time and repetition -- Events, characters, and characterization -- The parable as narrative illustration: from the parable of the sower to Franz Kafka's The trial and Orson Welles's The trial -- James Joyce's 'The dead' and John Huston's The dead -- Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse now -- Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse and Colin Gregg's To the lighthouse.
Abstract
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This introductory text presents key concepts of narrative theory - for example, author, narrator, time, perspective, event, characterization and analyzes five prose texts, and film versions of four of them, in terms of narrative theory.
Subject Term
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Fiction -- Technique.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Motion pictures and literature.
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