How to Do Things with Narrative
Subtitle: Cognitive and Diachronic Perspectives
Publisher: de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9783110569957
Subjects: Narration (rhetoric); Discourse analysis, narrative; Discourse analysis, literary
Description: "This volume combines narratological analyses with an investigation of the ideological ramifications of the use of narrative strategies. The collected essays do not posit any intrinsic or stable connection between narrative techniques and world views. Rather, they demonstrate that world views are inevitably expressed through highly specific formal strategies. This insight leads the contributors to investigate why and how particular narrative techniques are employed and under what conditions"--