Narratology
Subtitle: introduction to the theory of narrative
By: Mieke Bal.
Contributors: Boheemen, Christine van.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780802096876; 9780802096319
Subjects: Narration (Rhetoric)
Work titles: Theorie van vertellen en verhalen.
Description: Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become the international classic and comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts. Narratology is a systematic account of narrative techniques, methods, their transmission, and reception, in which Bal distills years of study of the ways in which we understand both literary and non-literary works. In this third edition, Bal updates the book to include more analysis of film narratives while also sharpening and tightening her language to make it the most readable and student-friendly edition to date. Bal also introduces new sections that treat and clarify several modernist texts that pose narratological challenges. With changes prompted by ten years of feedback from scholars and teachers, Narratology remains the most important contribution to the study of the way narratives work, are formed, and are received.
Notes: "This third 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: Countinho 1980)."--T.p. verso.

Translation of: De theorie van vertellen en verhalen.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-247) and indexes.