Narratology
Subtitle: an introduction
By: by Wolf Schmid.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9783110226317
Subjects: Narration (Rhetoric)
Work titles: Narratologii︠a︡.
Description: This book is a standard work for modern narrative theory. It provides a terminological and theoretical system of reference for future research. The author explains and discusses in detail problems of communication structure and entities of a narrative work, point of view, the relationship between narrator's text and character's text, narrativity and eventfulness, and narrative transformations of happenings. The book outlines a theory of narration and analyses central narratological categories such as fiction, mimesis, author, reader, narrator etc. A detailed bibliography and glossary of narratological terms make this book a compendium of narrative theory which is of relevance for scholars and students of all literary disciplines. --Book Jacket.
Notes: English translation of: Elemente der Narratologie, which is a German translation and expansion of the Russian work Narratologija (Moscow 2003).

Includes bibliographical references and index.