Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method - Hardcover

Genette, Gerard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801410991 ISBN 13: 9780801410994

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1979

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Review

""This book is generally considered one of the most- significant contributions to literary criticism in the 1970's, and it is almost essential or anyone doing serious study of narrative. The book is difficult and introduces a great deal of terminology, some of which has already been adopted by critics. It is well organized and systematic, a good example of what Robert Pirsig called the classical manner, a whole divided into its subordinate parts, those parts being further subdivided. To illustrate the use of his narrative analysis Genette applies it to Proust's Remembrance of Things Past and provides us with an insight into that great series." --Lawrence J. Gorman"

About the Author

Gerard Genette is the author of many books, including four published in translation by Cornell. Sylvie Courtine-Denamy is a French philosopher and author of Hannah Arendt. G. M. Goshgarian is the translator of several books from Cornell, including The Jew and the Other and Three Women in Dark Times: Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil. Jonathan Culler is Class of 1916 Professor of English at Cornell University. He is the author of many books, including On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism and The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction, both from Cornell University Press, and Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0801410991
• ISBN 13: 9780801410994
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288