Narrative in fiction and film : an introduction
Title:
Narrative in fiction and film : an introduction
Author:
Lothe, Jakob.
ISBN:
9780198752325
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Fiksjon og film. English
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2000.
Physical Description:
xii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
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:
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.
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