The Cambridge introduction to narrative
1 online resource (xiv, 203 pages : illustrations)
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Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1 Narrative and life 1
The universality of narrative 1
Narrative and time 3
Narrative perception 6
Chapter 2 Defining narrative 12
The bare minimum 12
Story and narrative discourse 14
The mediation (construction) of story 17
Constituent and supplementary events 20
Narrativity 22
Chapter 3 The borders of narrative 25
Framing narratives 25
Paratexts 26
The outer limits of narrative 27
Is it narrative or is it life itself? 31
Chapter 4 The rhetoric of narrative 36
The rhetoric of narrative 36
Causation 37
Normalization 40
Masterplots 42
Narrative rhetoric at work 46
Chapter 5 Closure 51
Conflict: the agon 51
Closure and endings 52
Closure, suspense, and surprise 53
Closure at the level of expectations 54
Closure at the level of questions 56
The absence of closure 57
Chapter 6 Narration 62
A few words on interpretation 62
The narrator 63
Voice 64
Focalization 66
Distance 67
Reliability 69
Free indirect style 70
Narration on stage and screen 72
Chapter 7 Interpreting narrative 76
The implied author 77
Underreading 79
Overreading 82
Gaps 83
Cruxes 85
Repetition: themes and motifs 88
Chapter 8 Three ways to interpret narrative 93
The question of wholeness in narrative 93
Intentional readings 95
Symptomatic readings 97
Adaptive readings 100
Chapter 9 Adaptation across media 105
Adaptation as creative destruction 105
Duration and pace 107
Character 109
Figurative language 111
Gaps 114
Focalization 115
Constraints of the marketplace 118
Chapter 10 Character and self in narrative 123
Character vs. action 123
Flat and round characters 126
Can characters be real? 127
Types 129
Autobiography 131
Life writing as performative 134
Chapter 11 Narrative contestation 138
A contest of narratives 138
A narrative lattice-work 142
Shadow stories 144
Motivation and personality 146
Masterplots and types 148
Revising cultural masterplots 150
Battling narratives are everywhere 152
Chapter 12 Narrative negotiation 156
Narrative negotiation 157
Critical reading as narrative negotiation 162
Closure, one more time 168
The end of closure? 171
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