The narrative modes : techniques of the short story

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The narrative modes : techniques of the short story

Helmut Bonheim

D.S. Brewer, c1982

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Includes bibliographies and index

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Description

A very simple four-point model for examining novels and short stories,based on the way in which writers employ narrative devices.`Deserves both attention and practical development.' THETIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT `Whatemerges is an understanding of the artfulness with whichmany short-story writers observe conventions only by stretching oreven breaking, them; we get a clear sense of the genre's dispositiontowards what are here called ``modal facades'', as well as of itsability to oppose the trends which are sometimes said to constituteliterary progress'. THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Theories of narrative modes: a brief history of modes
  • German studies
  • Anglo-American and French studies
  • hierarchy of modes
  • the articulation of modes
  • imbedded modes. Part 2 Mode chopping: the definition of modes
  • speech
  • report
  • description
  • comment
  • borderline cases
  • problems in mode chopping. Part 3 The modes in concert: modal deficits
  • changing tastes in narratives modes
  • modes and mediation
  • the submodes reviewed - narrative pace
  • the selectivity principle
  • reader participation. Part 4 The submodes of speech: distance
  • applications
  • the submodes of thought
  • the submodes of perception
  • a review of the submode markers. Part 5 Inquits: inquit norms
  • word order in inquits
  • the tense of the inquit verb
  • the scale of immediacy
  • the inquit and stylistic norms. Part 6 Short story beginnings: openings with comment, description, report and speech
  • modes imbedded in speech
  • non-referential modes in speech. Part 7 How stories end I - the static modes: open and closed endings
  • endings with comment
  • irony
  • comment from inside views
  • endings with description
  • description of persons
  • descriptions of persons mixed with other modes
  • description of things. Part 8 How stories end II - the dynamic modes: the ending with death
  • endings which repeat beginnings
  • techniques which mitigate the open effect of report
  • considerations of style
  • the open ending with report
  • endings with speech. Part 9 Conclusion - novel and short story. Appendices: statistical survey of narrative modes
  • devices in beginnings and endings.

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  • NCID
    BA01260394
  • ISBN
    • 0859910865
  • LCCN
    82208830
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 197 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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