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Narratology in Practice

By (author) Mieke Bal
Categories: Performance art, Non-graphic and electronic art forms, The Arts: art forms, The Arts
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Hardcover : 9781442650367, 232 pages, October 2021
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Table of contents

List of Illustrations
List of Figures
Preface
Introduction

I. Text: Signs

Preliminary Remarks

1. The Narrator
2. Non-Narrative Comments, Argumentative Narratives
3. Description
4. Levels of Narration

Remarks and Sources

II. Transition: Between Text and Society

Preliminary Remarks

1. Frame Narrative’s Invisible Frame
2. Con-Fusing Meanings
3. Between Narrative and Theatre
4. Con-Fusing Media

III. Story: Aspects

Preliminary Remarks

1. Temporality
2. Characters
3. Space 157
4. Focalisation

IV. Transition: Media in Dialogue

Preliminary Remarks

1. Novel and Film: A Two-Way Street
2. Text Making and Thinking Image
3. Image Making and Thinking in Images
4. Merging Everything

Remarks and Sources

V. Fabula: Elements

Preliminary Remarks

1. Events
2. Actors
3. Time
4. Location

No Conclusion
Remarks and Sources

References
Index of Names and Titles
Index of Concepts

Description

This companion to the international classic Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative makes the well-known theory useful not only in literary studies, but in other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including visual arts, cinema, photography, political texts, historical documents and historical writing, and methodological texts. Narratology in Practice demonstrates that narrative is not bound to language: it is present everywhere in modern culture.