[New Critical Idiom 01] • Narrative by Cobley, Paul -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title The New Critical Idiom Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements 1 In the beginning: the end

Story, plot and narrative Sequence Space Time Phylogeny and ontogeny

2 Early narrative

Narrative and history Orality, literacy and narrative Universality and narrative Narrative and identity Hellenic and Hebraic foundations Hybridity and the Western tradition A voyage to the self

3 The rise and rise of the novel

Mimesis Aristotelian mimesis Imitation, quotation and identity Epic, identity and the mixed mode Questioning the voice in the Middle Ages The low form of the romance and the rise of the novel The triple rise thesis and beyond Instruction, telling and narrative mode

4 Realist representation

Secretaries to the nineteenth century Battles over realism Middlemarch and 'classic realism' Omniscient narration Realism and the voices of narrative Narrative with dirt under its fingernails

5 Beyond realism

Identity and the analysis of Heart of Darkness Imperialism and repression Imperialism and sexuality Narrative, imperialism and the conflict of Western identity The reader and the narrative Narrative levels

6 Modernism and the cinema

Writing in light The cinema and modernism Just another 'realism'?

7 Postmodernism

'Meta' levels History The decline of the 'grand narrative' New technologies

8 In the end: the beginning

Narrative entertainment now Reading narrative Diversity and genres Closure, verisimilitude and the narrative sign The future of the narrative sign

9 What is narrative?

Narrative in social science Narrative and cognition Narrative and identity revisited Narrative modelling

Glossary Bibliography Index

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