Description
This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions.
Table of Contents
Preface: Studying Narrative Form
1. Major Approaches to and Theorists of Narrative
2. Shapes of Narrative: A Whole of Parts
3. Narrative Situation: Who's Who and What's its Function
4. People on Paper: Character, Characterization, and Represented Minds
5. Plot and Causation: Related Events
6. Timing: How Long and How Often?
7. Order and Disorder
8. Levels: Realms of Existence
9. Fictional Worlds and Fictionality
10. Nonfiction and Fiction in Disguise
11. Genres and Conventions
12. Narrative Emotions
Appendix A. Terms Listed by Chapter
Appendix B. Representative Texts: A List of Suggested Readings
Notes
Bibliography
Index
