Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates addresses two frequently asked questions about narrative studies: "what is narrative theory?" and "how do different approaches to narrative relate to each other?
' This book addresses both questions and, more significantly, also demonstrates the extent to which the questions themselves are intertwined.
' In engaging with these questions, the book demonstrates the diversity and vitality of the field and promotes a broader dialogue about its assumptions, methods, and purposes.
Narrative Theory offers an introduction to the field's critical and philosophical approaches towards narrative throughout history.
tradition that works explicitly to understand the general rules of narrative alongside the many particular forms that ... This narrative theory focuses, in other words, on the necessary relation between two aspects of narrative: (1) the ...
Narrative Theory: Special topics
Mieke Bal. Notes 1 Roland Barthes , " Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives , " Image , Music , Text ... History , trans . J. Sibree ( New York , 1956 ) , pp . 60–61 ; all further references to Hegel's introduction 79 THE ...
Mieke Bal. 6 INTRODUCTION TO THE STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF NARRATIVES Roland Barthes Source : Stephen Heath ( ed . and trans . ) , Image , Music , Text , New York : Hill and Wang , 1977 , pp . 79-124 . Originally published as Roland Barthes ...