{"product_id":"the-narrator-9781496231406","title":"The Narrator","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Narrator\u003c\/i\u003e questions the dominance of the communicational paradigm in the theory and analysis of fictional narratives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This ground-breaking study situates works that presume that every narrative has a narrator within communicational theories and convincingly argues instead for poetic theories, which maintain that while authors of fiction may create narrators, they are in no way compelled to do so. A major contribution to narrative theory.”—Jonathan Culler, author of \u003ci\u003eStructuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Narrator\u003c\/i\u003e is an expansive, meticulously researched, and brilliantly argued intervention in narrative theory. Powerful and compelling, its conclusions will have to be engaged with by all future students of narration.”—Brian Richardson, author of \u003ci\u003eUnnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Communicational Theories of Narrative: The Narrator in All Narratives\u003cbr\u003e 1. Genette: A Primitive Concept\u003cbr\u003e 2. Doležel (I): The Theory of Narrative Modes\u003cbr\u003e 3. Chatman (I): A Continuum Approach to the Issue of the Narrator\u003cbr\u003e 4. Stanzel: The Narrator and the Tripartition of Fictional Narrative\u003cbr\u003e 5. Speech Act Theory and Narratology\u003cbr\u003e 6. Fludernik, Nünning: The Cognitive Turn of Narratology\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Poetic Theories of Narrative: The Optional Narrator\u003cbr\u003e 7. Toward Another Reading of Hamburger\u003cbr\u003e 8. Kuroda: Communicational and Noncommunicational Theories of Language and of Narrative\u003cbr\u003e 9. Banfield: The Free Indirect Style at the Core of a Poetic Theory of Narrative\u003cbr\u003e 10. Deictic Shift Theory\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1: Enunciative Narratology: A French Speciality\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2: Selected Texts on the Narrator\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index of Names\u003cbr\u003e Index of Subjects","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409240826199,"sku":"9781496231406","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496231406.jpg?v=1730506103","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-narrator-9781496231406","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}