Narratology : introduction to the theory of narrative
Title:
Narratology : introduction to the theory of narrative
Author:
Bal, Mieke, 1946-
ISBN:
9780802007599
9780802078063
9780802096876
9780802096319
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Uniform Title:
Theorie van vertellen en verhalen. English
Edition:
2nd ed.
Publication Information:
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1997.
Physical Description:
xv, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
Translation of: De theorie van vertellen en verhalen.
Contents:
Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Introduction -- Remarks and sources -- Test : words -- Preliminary remarks -- The narrator -- Non-narrative comments -- Description. Delimitation ; Motivation ; A rhetoric of description -- Level of narration. Intermediate forms : indirect speech and free indirect speech ; Relations between primary and embedded texts ; Embedded narrative texts ; Relations between primary fabula and embedded text ; Relations between primary fabula and embedded fabula ; An indication to the reader ; An indication to the actor ; Non-narrative embedded texts -- Remarks and sources -- Story : aspects. Preliminary remarks -- Sequential ordering. Direction : possibilities ; Nuances of anarchrony ; Distance : kinds ; Functions ; Span ; Anticipations ; Achrony -- Rhythm. Background ; General rhythm ; Ellipsis ; summary ; Scene ; Slow-down ; Pause -- Frequency -- From actors to characters. Problems ; Predictability ; Construction of contents ; Filling in the outline ; Sources of information ; The problem of the hero -- From place to space. Place and space ; Spatial aspects and perception ; Content and function ; Relations to other elements ; Information -- Focalization. Background ; Focalizor ; The focalized object ; Levels of focalization ; Suspense -- Visual stories. the point of a visual narratology ; Visual narratology in a nutshell ; Novel and film ; Vision in language -- Remarks and sources -- Fabula : elements. Preliminary remarks -- Events. Selection ; First criterion : change ; Second criterion : choice ; Third criterion : confrontation ; Relationships ; the narrative cycle ; Other principles of structure -- Actors. Selection ; Classes of actors ; Subject and object ; Power and receiver ; Helper and opponent ; Further specification ; Doubling ; Competence ; Truth value ; Other divisions into classes -- Time. duration : two kinds ; Motivation of this distinction ; Chronology : interruption and parallelism ; Logical sequence -- Location -- Remarks and sources -- Afterword : theses on the use of narratology for cultural analysis -- For those who wish to know more -- Appendix on quoted Dutch novelists.
Abstract:
Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become a classic introduction to the major elements of a comprehensive theory of narrative texts. In this second edition, Professor Bal broadens the spectrum of her theoretical model, updating the chapters on literary narrative and adding new examples from outside the field of literary studies. Some specific additions include discussions on dialogue in narrative, translation as transformation (including translation between different media), intertextuality, interdiscursivity, and the place of the subject in narratology. Two new sections, one on visualization and visual narrative with examples from art and film and the other an examination of anthropological views of narrative, lead Bal to conclude with a re-evaluation of narratology in light of its applications outside the realm of the literary.
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