Cambridge Companion To Narrative

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The Cambridge Companion to Narrative first published in 1997 provides a unique & valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling & methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry & in connection with a variety of media from film & television to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to-face interaction to literary fiction. Each chapter presents a survey of scholarly approaches to topics such as character dialogue genre or language shows how those approaches can be brought to bear on a relatively well-known illustrative example & indicates directions for further research. Featuring a chapter reviewing definitions of narrative a glossary of key terms & a comprehensive index this is an essential resource for both students & scholars in many fields including language & literature composition & rhetoric creative writing jurisprudence communication & media studies & the social sciences.