Full Description
Narrative Retellings presents pioneering work at the intersection of stylistics and narrative study to provide new insights into the diverse forms of fictional and factual narratives and their retellings. Common types of retelling, such as translation, adaptation, textual intervention and reader responses are reconceptualised in the chapters, and fresh insights are offered into experiences retold as autofiction, witness statements and advertorials on social media. From modernising the most cherished novels of Jane Austen to deciphering conflicting testimonials following the Hillsborough disaster, this volume reveals the complexities involved in all forms of narrative retellings. As such, it makes a valuable contribution to the interdisciplinary study of stylistics and to the understanding of narrative texts.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction to Narrative Retellings, Marina Lambrou
Part I. Fictional Retellings
2. Restorying: The Creative Act of Re-telling, Jeremy Scott
3. Adaptation as a Communicative Act: Pride and Prejudice in a Hall of Mirrors, Anne Furlong
4. Narrative Retelling in McGahern's "Swallows": The Intensifying Power of Repetition and Return, Michael Toolan
5. Modern Retellings of Jane Austen, Joe Bray
6. Rewriting Misdirection: A Stylistic Approach to Crime Fiction Writing, Christiana Gregoriou
Part II. Factual Retellings
7. Siegfried Sassoon, Autofiction and Style: Retelling the Experience of War, Marcello Giovanelli
8. Retelling Catastrophe through Translation, Jean Boase-Beier
9. Retelling Hillsborough: A Critical Stylistic Analysis of Witness Statements, Patricia Canning
10. 'This is a Sponsored Post, But All Opinions Are My Own': Advertising (Re)tellings on Social Media, Helen Ringrow
Part III. Pedagogical Applications of Retellings
11. Intervening in Text-Worlds: Retelling, Text World Theory and Pedagogy, Ian Cushing
12. Retelling Stories across Languages and Cultures: Literary Imagination and Symbolic Competence, Chantelle Warner
13. Rereading as Retelling: Re-evaluations of Perspective in Narrative Fiction, Chloe Harrison and Louise Nuttall
Index
