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Chatman, Seymour

 
9780801491863: Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film
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ISBN 10: 080149186X ISBN 13: 9780801491863
Editorial: Cornell University Press, 1980

Sinopsis

"An important American contribution to the study of narrative theory."―Choice

This book is the first comprehensive approach in English to a general theory of narrative, both in verbal and in visual media.

The primary question to which Professor Chatman addresses himself is what narrative is in itself. Following such French structuralists as Roland Barthes, Tzvetan Todorov, and Gerard Genette, he posits a what and a way. "The what of narrative," he says, "I call its 'story'; the way, I call its 'discourse.'" Liberally illustrating his concepts with discussions of particular novels and films, he effects a synthesis of the latest Continental critical thinking about narrative and the Anglo-American tradition exemplified by Henry James, Percy Lubbock, Wayne Booth, and others.

A judicious and well-informed book, Story and Discourse should become a standard guide to narrative and to modern thinking about narrative.

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Acerca del autor

Seymour Chatman is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film. 'For the specialist in the study of narrative structure, this is a solid and very perceptive exploration of the issues salient to the telling of a story-whatever the medium. Chatman, whose approach here is at once dualist and structuralist, divides his subject into the 'what' of the narrative (Story) and the 'way'(Discourse)... Chatman's command of his material is impressive.'

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Editorial
Cornell University Press
Año de publicación
1980
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
080149186X
ISBN 13 
9780801491863
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
288
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9780801411311: Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0801411319 ISBN 13:  9780801411311
Editorial: Cornell University Press, 1978
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