The narrative modes : techniques of the short story

著者

• Bonheim, Helmut

書誌事項

The narrative modes : techniques of the short story

Helmut Bonheim

D.S. Brewer, c1982

注記

Includes bibliographies and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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

目次

• 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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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA01260394
• ISBN:
  • 0859910865
• LCCN: 82208830
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]
• ページ数/冊数: x, 197 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PN3373
  • DC19 : 801/.953
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Short story