
Kent Puckett's Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction provides an account of a methodology increasingly central to literary studies, film studies, history, psychology and beyond. In addition to introducing readers to some of the field's major figures and their ideas, Puckett situates critical and philosophical approaches towards narrative within a longer intellectual history. The book reveals o...
Hardcover: 360 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (November 14, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781107033665
ISBN-13: 978-1107033665
ASIN: 1107033667
Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 0.9 x 9.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 9307383
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I’m only half way through this illuminating and original approach to a history of narrative theory. But I am exasperated by the sheer number of typographical errors that intrude on and mar the author’s well wrought argument. Shameful for any press, b...
tive theory's founding claims - that narratives need to be understood in terms of a formal relation between story and discourse, between what they narrate and how they narrate it - both as a necessary methodological distinction and as a problem characteristic of modern thought. Puckett thus shows that narrative theory is not only a powerful descriptive system but also a complex and sometimes ironic form of critique. Narrative Theory offers readers an introduction to the field's key figures, methods and ideas, and it also reveals that field as unexpectedly central to the history of ideas.