Dan Shen

Discourse and Style (eBook, ePUB)

What Narratology and Stylistics Can Do for Each Other

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines overlaps, differences, and complementarities between narratology and stylistics, and shows the consequences of this examination for the practical analysis of prose narrative.

Narratology identifies discourse as one of its two main objects of study (story being the other), and stylistics, of course, designates style as its concern. Too often, however, work in each of these fields proceeds without attention to developments in the other. This book corrects that situation by looking beneath the superficial similarities between the "discourse" of narratology and the "style" of fictional stylistics. The author shows that the two seemingly interchangeable terms actually refer to different textual elements. For example, both narratology and stylistics identify point of view as an important element of discourse and style, respectively, but each approach conceives of it differently and thus analyzes it differently. This book argues that the different analyses are complementary and shows how they can be brought together. This synthesis leads to richer conceptions of point of view as well as more comprehensive and precise analyses of its functions and effects in individual narratives.

For its theoretical and interpretive contributions, this book will appeal to scholars and students in narrative studies, literary stylistics, and literary theory and criticism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040216477
• Artikelnr.: 72287867

Autorenporträt

Dan Shen is Boya Chair Professor of English at Peking University, China. She is on the advisory boards of Narrative and Style, and the editorial board of Language and Literature. She has published nine books, including Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction: Covert Progressions Behind Overt Plots and Dual Narrative Dynamics with Routledge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Distinction and relation between narratology's story and
discourse 2. Difference between narratology's discourse and fictional
stylistics' style 3. Existing interdisciplinary studies between narratology
and stylistics 4. Two most notable overlapping areas between discourse and
style 5. Point of view/focalization: Distinction and classification 6.
Difference behind similarity: Third-person center of consciousness and
first-person retrospective narration 7. Modes of point of view or
focalization: Functions and effects 8. Transgressions of modes of point of
view or focalization 9. Modes of speech presentation: Functions and effects
10. Peculiarities of speech presentation in Chinese prose fiction
Conclusion