The 35 original essays in A Companion to Narrative Theory
constitute the best available introduction to this vital and
contested field of humanistic enquiry.
* Comprises 35 original essays written by leading figures in the
field
* Includes contributions from pioneers in the field such as Wayne
C. Booth, Seymour Chatman, J. Hillis Miller and Gerald Prince
* Represents all the major critical approaches to narrative and
investigates and debates the relations between them
* Considers narratives in different disciplines, such as law and
medicine
* Features analyses of a variety of media, including film, music,
and painting
* Designed to be of interest to specialists, yet accessible to
readers with little prior knowledge of the field
Mengenai Pengarang
James Phelan is Humanities Distinguished Professor of
English at Ohio State University. He is the editor of the journal
Narrative and the author of several books in narrative
theory, the most recent of which are Living to Tell About It: A
Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration (2005) and
Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the
Rhetorical Theory of Narrative (2007).
Peter J. Rabinowitz is Professor and Chair of Comparative
Literature at Hamilton College. His previous publications include
Before Reading (1987) and Authorizing Readers
(coauthored with Michael Smith, 1998). He is also a music critic
and serves as a contributing editor of Fanfare.
Phelan and Rabinowitz are coeditors of the Ohio State University
Press series on the Theory and Interpretation of Narrative, which
now has more than twenty-five titles to its credit.
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