Rhetorical Narratology

by Michael Kearns

Narratology attempts to determine the rules or codes of composition of a narrative and to formulate the "grammar" of narrative, that is, the structures and formulas that recur across stories with very different content. Since its inception some thirty years ago, narratology has adopted a largely formalist and structuralist focus and thus has tended to pass over contextual factors that affect a reader's experience of narratives. In Rhetorical Narratology,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803227426
• ISBN13: 9780803227422
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"