Cobley Paul (London Metropolitan University Uk)
Cobley Paul (London Metropolitan University Uk) - Narrative - Paperback
Cobley Paul (London Metropolitan University Uk) - Narrative - Paperback
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Description: Human beings have constantly told stories presented events and placed the world into narrative form. This activity suggests a very basic way of looking at the world yet this book argues even the most seemingly simple of stories is embedded in a complex network of relations. Paul Cobley traces these relations considering the ways in which humans have employed narrative over the centuries to re - present time space and identity. This second revised and fully updated edition of the successful guidebook to narrative covers a range of narrative forms and their historical development from early oral and literate forms through to contemporary digital media encompassing Hellenic and Hebraic foundations the rise of the novel realist representations narratives of imperialism modernism cinema postmodernism and new technologies. A final chapter reviews the way that narrative theory in the last decade has re - orientated definitions of narrative. Written in a clear engaging style and featuring an extensive glossary of terms this is the essential introduction to the history and theory of narrative.
Title: Narrative
Author(s): Cobley Paul (London Metropolitan University Uk)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415834445
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 11/20/2013
Series: The New Critical Idiom
Category: Literary Studies: General
Description: Human beings have constantly told stories presented events and placed the world into narrative form. This activity suggests a very basic way of looking at the world yet this book argues even the most seemingly simple of stories is embedded in a complex network of relations. Paul Cobley traces these relations considering the ways in which humans have employed narrative over the centuries to re - present time space and identity. This second revised and fully updated edition of the successful guidebook to narrative covers a range of narrative forms and their historical development from early oral and literate forms through to contemporary digital media encompassing Hellenic and Hebraic foundations the rise of the novel realist representations narratives of imperialism modernism cinema postmodernism and new technologies. A final chapter reviews the way that narrative theory in the last decade has re - orientated definitions of narrative. Written in a clear engaging style and featuring an extensive glossary of terms this is the essential introduction to the history and theory of narrative.
Title: Narrative
Author(s): Cobley Paul (London Metropolitan University Uk)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415834445
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 11/20/2013
Series: The New Critical Idiom
Category: Literary Studies: General
