This analytical study provides a welcome balance to the critical practice of judging all narrative literature by standards appropriate only to the novel. Scholes and Kellogg argue that such a narrow view obscures the real tradition of narrative literature in the Western world. Examining the work of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Lawrence, Faulkner, and other writers of this century, they consider elements common to all narrative forms, including myth, folktale, epic, romance, allegory, confession, and satire.

The Nature of Narrative

Literature & Fiction

Scholes, Robert

Kellogg, Robert

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

This book is for the beginning student of fiction and deals in fundamentals rather than refinements. Part One is Elements of Fiction, and Part Two is Three Stories and Commentaries.

Elements of Fiction

Book by Scholes, Robert, Klaus, Carl H.

Elements of Drama

Klaus, Carl H.

Elements of Writing

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Science Fiction: History-Science-Vision

A concise guide to the intellectual, social, and scientific elements that comprise the history and background of science fiction, to the genre's main developments, and to its most significant writers

Rabkin, Eric S.

Classics

The Nature of Narrative: Revised and Expanded

For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg in the original edition offered a compelling history of the genre narrative from antiquity to the twentieth-century, even as they carried out their main task of describing and analyzing the nature of narrative's main elements: meaning, character, plot, and point of view. Their history emphasized the broad sweep of literary narrative from ancient times to the contemporary period, and it included a chapter on the oral heritage of written narrative and an appendix on the interior monologue in ancient texts. The fortieth anniversary edition of this groundbreaking work has been revised and expanded to include a new preface and a lengthy chapter on developments in narrative theory since 1966 by James Phelan. This chapter describes the principles and practices of structuralist, cognitive, feminist, and rhetorical approaches to narrative, paying special attention to their work on plot, character, and narrative discourse. A continued leader in the field of narrative studies, The Nature of Narrative offers unique and invaluable histories of both narrative and narrative theory.

PHELAN, JAMES

For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg in the original edition offered a compelling history of the genre narrative from antiquity to the twentieth-century, even as they carried out their main task of describing and analyzing the nature of narrative's main elements: meaning, character, plot, and point of view. Their history emphasized the broad sweep of literary narrative from ancient times to the contemporary period, and it included a chapter on the oral heritage of written narrative and an appendix on the interior monologue in ancient texts. The fortieth anniversary edition of this groundbreaking work has been revised and expanded to include a new preface and a lengthy chapter on developments in narrative theory since 1966 by James Phelan. This chapter describes the principles and practices of structuralist, cognitive, feminist, and rhetorical approaches to narrative, paying special attention to their work on plot, character, and narrative discourse. A continued leader in the field of narrative studies, The Nature of Narrative offers unique and invaluable histories of both narrative and narrative theory.

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Elements of Literature (Canadian Edition)

Comley, Nancy R.

Staines, David

Oxford Canada

FABULATION & METAFICTION

University of Illinois Press

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The Nature of Narrative

Elements of Fiction

Elements of Drama

Elements of Writing

Science Fiction: History-Science-Vision

Science Fiction: History-Science-Vision

The Nature of Narrative: Revised and Expanded

The Nature of Narrative: Revised and Expanded

Elements of Literature (Canadian Edition)

FABULATION & METAFICTION