Narrative Form

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Major Approaches to and Theorists of Narrative

   • Suzanne Keen

   Pages 1-15

3. Shapes of Narrative: A Whole of Parts

   • Suzanne Keen

   Pages 16-29

4. Narrative Situation: Who’s Who and What’s its Function

   • Suzanne Keen

   Pages 30-54

5. People on Paper: Character, Characterization, and Represented Minds

   • Suzanne Keen

   Pages 55-72

6. Plot and Causation: Related Events

   • Suzanne Keen

   Pages 73-89

7. Timing: How Long and How Often?

   • Suzanne Keen

   Pages 90-98

8. Order and Disorder

   • Suzanne Keen

   Pages 99-107

9. Levels: Realms of Existence

   • Suzanne Keen

   Pages 108-115

10. Fictional Worlds and Fictionality

    • Suzanne Keen

    Pages 116-127

11. Disguises: Fiction in the Form of Nonfiction Texts

    • Suzanne Keen

    Pages 128-140

12. Genres and Conventions

    • Suzanne Keen

    Pages 141-153

13. Back Matter

    Pages 154-204

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This handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction. Beginning with a survey of major theorists and approaches, and using clearly defined terms, Narrative Form explains critical vocabulary and offers a variety of strategies for analyzing the formal qualities of fiction. Keen suggests that interpretations of form can be effectively integrated with contemporary approaches to literature, including feminist, postcolonial, and cultural studies methodologies. Narrative Form shows how to use the language of formal analysis accurately and innovatively.

• Cultural Studies
• fiction
• Narrative

'An authoritative and comprehensive advanced introduction to the terminology and concepts of narratology. Professor Keen is an expert in this area.' - Professor J. Hillis Miller, UCI Distinguished Research Professor, University of California

• Washington and Lee University, USA

  Suzanne Keen

SUZANNE KEEN is Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, where she teaches modern, contemporary and postcolonial narrative fiction. She is the author of two books on English fiction and articles on Thomas Hardy, Jeanette Winterson, Anthony Burgess, Peter Ackroyd and Seamus Heaney.

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