Narrative in Fiction and Film: An Introduction

by Jakob Lothe

Book Overview

This introductory book presents key concepts of narrative theory (or "narratology") and analyses five prose texts--the parable of the sower in St. Mark's Gospel, Franz Kafka's The Trial, James Joyce's 'The Dead', Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse--by applying the principles of narrative theory. This book also discusses film versions of four of these texts: Orson Welles's The Trial, John Huston's The Dead, Francis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198752326
• ISBN13: 9780198752325
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"