Overview
In this ground-breaking work, Monika Fludernik combines insights from literary theory and linguistics to provide a challenging new theory of narrative. This theory is based upon insights from three areas of research: 'natural' cognitive linguistics; the sociolinguistic concept of 'natural' narrative; and the argument for 'naturalization', ie: our ability to impose meaning on seemingly diverse textual elements. This book is both an historical survey and theoretical study, with the author drawing on an enormous range of examples from the earliest oral narratives to contemporary experimental fiction. She uses these examples to prove that recent literature, far from heralding the final collapse of narrative represents the epitome of a centuries-long developmental process. Unlike traditional narrative theories, Fludernik's 'natural narratology' is capable of embracing all types of narrative, such as the joke, the medieval poem and the post-modern novel.
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Author: Monika Fludernik
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.884kg
ISBN: 9780415124829
ISBN 10: 0415124824
Pages: 472
Publication Date: 01 August 1996
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print 
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Table of Contents
Preface, Acknowledgements, Prologue in the wilderness, 1 Towards a `natural' narratology, 2 Natural narrative and other oral modes, 3 From the oral to the written: narrative structure before the novel, 4 The realist paradigm: consciousness, mimesis and the reading of the `real', 5 Reflectorization and figuralization: the malleability of language, 6 Virgin territories: the strategic expansion of deictic options, 7 Games with tellers, telling and told, 8 Natural Narratology, In lieu of an epilogue, Notes, Reference, Texts, Criticism, Author index, Subject index
Reviews
'Meticulously researched and cogently argued, this landmark work in narratology is perhaps the most distinguished recent contribution to the study of narrative....This highly recommendable book will be essential reading not only for all graduate students of English literature, literary theory, and narrative texts, but for the growing number of people concerned with building bridges between the traditionally separate disciplines of literary studies, linguistics, and cognitive theory' - European Journal of English Studies
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Fludernik, Monika
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