Narrative Discourse Revisited

In Narrative Discourse Revisited Genette both answers critics of the earlier work and provides a better-defined, richer, and more systematic view of narrative form and functioning. This book not only clarifies some of the more complex issues in the study of narrative but also provides a vivid tableau of the development of narratology over the decade between the two works.

Om litterær fortælleteknik, med udgangspunkt i Marcel Proust's På sporet efter den tabte tid.

Deals particularly with Proust.

Genette uses Proust's Remembrance of Things Past as a work to identify and name the basic constituents and techniques of narrative. Genette illustrates the examples by referring to other literary works. His systemic theory of narrative deals with the structure of fiction, including fictional devices that go unnoticed and whose implications fulfill the Western narrative tradition.

Revised papers originally presented at the "International Conference on Narrative Revisited: Telling a Story in the Age of New Media," held in July 2007, and sponsored by the Department of English Linguistics at the University of Augsburg, in honor of WolframBublitz .

O'Neill investigates the extent to which narrative discourse subverts the story it tells in foregrounding its own performance.

This collection of essays discusses various perspectives on narratology. Well-known scholars in the field such as Gerald Prince and F. K. Stanzel focus on central concepts such as the narrative moment and free indirect discourse. Other essays consider famous narratological problems, for example the question of narrative levels and the narrating instance. Together these essays present some of the most recent thoughts on a subject which is becoming crucial for anyone interested in literary theory and semiotics.