Narratology
Subtitle: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative
By: Mieke Bal.
Edition: 2d ed.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 254
Copyright date: 1997
Subjects: Narration (Rhetoric)
Description: Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become a classic introduction to the major elements of a comprehensive theory of narrative texts. In this second edition, Professor Bal broadens the spectrum of her theoretical model, updating the chapters on literary narrative and adding new examples from outside the field of literary studies.

Some specific additions include discussions on dialogue in narrative, translation as transformation (including translation between different media), intertextuality, interdiscursivity, and the place of the subject in narratology.

Two new sections, one on visualization and visual narrative with examples from art and film and the other an examination of anthropological views of narrative, lead Bal to conclude with a re-evaluation of narratology in light of its applications outside the realm of the literary.
Notes: This second edition is a complete revision of *Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative*, which was a translation, revised for English-language readers, by Christine Van Boheemen, of the second, revised edition of *De Theorie van vertellen en verhalen* (Muiderberg Coutinho 1980).