A Theory of Narrative by Altman, Rick -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Note 1. What Is Narrative?

The Traditional Understanding of Narrative The Nature of Narrative Revisited A New Approach to Narrative Analysis

2. The Song . . . of Roland?

The Following-Pattern Symmetry Integration Polarity Adjustment

3. Dual-Focus Narrative

Beginnings Principles of Opposition Replacement Operations and Polarity Adjustment Endings The Dual-Focus System

4. Hester’s Speculation

The Centrality of the Margins Speculation The Triumph of Individual Conscience

5. Single-Focus Narrative

The Birth of Desire Models and Motives Twice-Told Tales Modes of Identification The Single-Focus System

6. Pieter Bruegel, or the Space of Multiplicity

The Hole in the Center Thematic Resolution The Tilted Plane

7. Multiple-Focus Narrative

Illegitimate Narration Carnivalization Multiplicity as Critique How Did We Get Here from There? Hem-Naming Intentional Accidents The Reader as Alchemist The Multiple-Focus System

8. Theoretical Conclusion

Mapping Narrative Transformations The Transformational Matrix The Typological Matrix

9. Practical Conclusion

Textual Analysis Literary and Film History Social Organization Religion Political Life Imaging the World

References Index

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