num_pages: 288
description: This comprehensive, accessible guidebook traces the ways in which human beings have used narrative to make sense of time, space and identity over the centuries. Particular attention is given * early narrative, from Hellenic and Hebraic* the rise of the novel* realist representation* imperialism and narrative* modernism and cinema* postmodern narrative* narrative and new technologies.With a strong emphasis on clarity and a range of examples from oral cultures to cyberspace, this is the ideal guide to an essential critical topic.
language: English
title: Narrative
titlecomplete: Narrative (The New Critical Idiom)
genres: Literature, Nonfiction, Theory, Criticism, Writing, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 52
series: New Critical Idiom
publisher: Routledge