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"The influential and widely respected narrative theorist, H. Porter Abbott, breaks new ground in Real Mysteries: Narrative and the Unknowable. In it, he revisits the ancient theme of what we cannot know about ourselves and others. But in a sharp departure, he shifts the focus from the representation of this theme to the ways narrative can be manipulated to immerse "the willing reader" in the actual experience of unknowing. As he shows, this difficult and risky art, which was practiced so inventively by Samuel Beckett, was also practiced by other modern writers. Abbott demonstrates their surprising diversity in texts by Beckett, Gabriel García Márquez, Herman Melville, Emily Brontë, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, J.M. Coetzee, Tim O'Brien, Kathryn Harrison, and Jeanette Winterson, together with supporting roles by J.G. Ballard, Gertrude Stein, Michael Haneke, and Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. The demands of this art bear directly on key issues of narrative inquiry, including the nature and limits of reader-resistant texts, the function of permanent narrative gaps, the relation between experiencing a text and its interpretation, the fraught issue of aligning grammatical and narrative syntax, the mixed blessing of our mind-reading capability, and the ethics of reading. Despite its challenges, this book has also been written with an eye to the general reader. In accessible language, Abbott shows how narrative fiction may create spaces in which our ignorance, when it is by its nature absolute, can be not only acknowledged but felt, and why this is important." ; Publisher's description.

Fiction --- Literary rhetorics --- 82-3 --- Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Knowledge, Theory of, in literature. --- Fiction. --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- Erzähltechnik. --- Erzähltheorie. --- Literatur. --- History and criticism. --- 82-3 Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Knowledge, Theory of, in literature --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- History and criticism --- 82-3 Fiction. Prose narrative --- Fiction. Prose narrative

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Fiction --- Autobiographical fiction --- Diaries --- Diary fiction --- Epistolary fiction --- Letter writing in literature. --- Letters in literature. --- Self in literature. --- History and criticism.

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The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative is designed to help readers understand what narrative is, how it is constructed, how it acts upon us, how we act upon it, how it is transmitted, and how it changes when the medium or the cultural context change. Porter Abbott emphasises that narrative is found not just in the arts but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives. Abbott grounds his treatment of narrative by introducing it as a human phenomenon that is not restricted to literature, film, and theatre, but is found in all activities involving the representation of events in time. At the same time, he honours the fact that out of this common capability have come rich and meaningful narratives that we come back to and reflect on repeatedly in our lives. An indispensable tool for students and teachers alike, this book will guide readers through the fundamental aspects of narrative.

82-3 --- Fiction --- -Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- 82-3 Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Technique --- Philosophy --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Fiction writing --- Writing, Fiction --- Authorship --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- Technique. --- 82-3 Fiction. Prose narrative --- Fiction. Prose narrative --- NARRATION --- ROMAN --- TECHNIQUE

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A collection of original essays establishing how wide the intellectual boundaries of narrative theory have becomeThe Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories showcases the latest approaches to diverse narratives across many media and in numerous disciplines. Attending to literary, digital, visual, cinematic, televisual, and aural forms of storytelling, this book brings founders of the field of post-classical narrative theory together with senior and emerging scholars.This is the first anthology to consider what narrative is and what it can do in the wake of various turns in literary studies which have been appearing in the context of digital media and algorithmic capital. From mind-centred and philosophical approaches to theories focusing on gender, race, and sexuality, the chapters touch on poetry, drama, digital games, podcasts, coding, speculative fiction, the law, medical narrative, oral storytelling, and comics as well as the more traditional areas of fiction, TV, and film. This is the future of narrative theory.Key Features:Includes popular culture genres (comics, video games, coding) not covered in depth in other companions to narrative theoryShowcases essays on narrative dimensions of law, medical ethics, linguistics, and philosophy as well as more obviously narrative genresAttention given to race, gender, sexuality distributed throughout the volume, not isolated in a single sectionNew essays by superstars in narrative theory (Phelan, McHale, Lanser, Richardson, Abbott, Currie) as well as other well respected and emerging scholars

Fiction --- Literary rhetorics --- Literary semiotics --- Narration --- Analyse du discours --- Storytelling in literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Narration. --- Analyse du discours. --- Storytelling in literature.