On narrative / edited by W.J.T. Mitchell.

Other author Mitchell, W. J. T. (William John Thomas), 1942- editor.
Format Book
PublicationChicago : University of Chicago Press, 1981.
Descriptionx, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Subjects

Contents The value of narrativity in the representation of reality / Hayden White -- Narration in the psychoanalytic dialogue / Roy Schafer -- The law of genre / Jacques Derrida -- Secrets and narrative sequence / Frank Kermode -- Twisted tales / Nelson Goodman -- What novels can do that films can't (and vice versa) / Seymour Chatman -- Social dramas and stories about them / Victor Turner -- Narrative time / Paul Ricoeur -- It was a dark and stormy night / Ursula K. LeGuin -- Afterthoughts on narrative -- On the how, what, and why of narrative / Paul Hernadi -- Language, narrative, and anti-narrative / Robert Scholes -- Narrative versions, narrative theories / Barbara Herrnstein Smith -- Critical response -- Everyman his or her own annalist / Louis O. Mink -- "The otherwise unnoteworthy year 711": A reply to Hayden White / Marilyn Robinson Waldman -- The narrativization of real events / Hayden White -- The telling and the told / Nelson Goodman -- Reply to Barbara Herrnstein Smith / Seymour Chatman.
Abstract Essays examine the way stories are told, understood, and used to represent and make sense of the world.
General note"The articles in this volume originally appeared in Critical inquiry, volume 7, number 1 (Autumn 1980) and volume 7, number 4 (Summer 1981)."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Other formsAlso issued online.
Issued in other formOnline version: On narrative. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1981
Other title Critical inquiry.
LCCN 80053137
ISBN0226532178 (paperback)
ISBN9780226532172 (paperback)

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Joyner General Stacks P302 .O6 1981 ✔ Available Place Hold