Literary Theory - General & Miscellaneous, Oral Tradition & Storytelling, Pragmatics & Discourse Analysis, Popular Culture - United States, Linguistics & Semiotics - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
This book explores the complexity of story text. Its thesis is that one can elicit the world view of a people from a close structural analysis of their narrative discourse. It is the first methodological explanation of how stories can be used as a source of cultural data and an illustration of how to do a rhetorically close analysis of a story text. A theory of narrative structure is presented which leads to a conversationally based definition of what can properly be called a story.
Book Details
Published
January 1, 1985
Publisher
Norwood, N.J. : Ablex Publishers, c1985.
Pages
160
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780893910419