Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
  1. Home
  2. Publications
  3. Textbooks
  4. Content Listing

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

36809 results in Cambridge Textbooks

Page 703 of 1841

  • 14 - Narrative Negotiation

  • H. Porter Abbott
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative
    Published online:
    04 December 2020
    Print publication:
    03 December 2020, pp 201-213

  • Summary

    This chapter and the next balance the previous one. All three are about ways in which we think with narrative. But where in the last chapter, we focused on conflicts between narratives, in this one and the next, we are looking at conflicts within narratives. Where in the last chapter, we looked at the ways in which narratives are used as armament in a contest of narratives like a trial, a political race, or an intellectual controversy, now we are looking at narratives as themselves structured as contests, the claims of which they may or may not negotiate successfully, thereby achieving closure or remaining open.

  • 12 - Narrative Worlds

  • H. Porter Abbott
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative
    Published online:
    04 December 2020
    Print publication:
    03 December 2020, pp 167-182

  • Summary

    I'm only speculating, but it could be that the neglect of space in the study of narrative may have come from the fact that narrative scholars, especially in the early years, tended to focus on verbal narrative, oral and written. These are forms where the audience cannot physically see what's happening.

  • 15 - Narrative Negotiation

  • H. Porter Abbott
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative
    Published online:
    04 December 2020
    Print publication:
    03 December 2020, pp 214-224

  • Summary

    Recalling Chapter 5, if closure at the level of expectations coincides with closure at the level of questions, it resolves issues that are carried by the agon. But with narratives of any complexity, this is hard to pull off – at least, without reduction. At the level of expectations, Sophocles's Oedipus Tyrannus appears to end emphatically with Jocasta's suicide and Oedipus's self-blinding.

  • 9 - Adaptation Across Media

  • H. Porter Abbott
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative
    Published online:
    04 December 2020
    Print publication:
    03 December 2020, pp 118-135

  • Summary

    If the creative leeway between script and performance is wide in the production of plays, it is enormous when adaptation crosses media boundaries. This is necessarily the case. Reviewers who complain that a film or play is a poor “translation” of the original may miss the fact that adaptation across media is not translation in anything but the loosest sense.

  • 3 - The Borders of Narrative

  • H. Porter Abbott
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative
    Published online:
    04 December 2020
    Print publication:
    03 December 2020, pp 29-45

  • Summary

    As you move to the outer edges of a narrative, you may find that it is embedded in another narrative. The containing narrative is what is called a framing narrative. Classic examples of framing narratives, or frame-tales, are Boccaccio's Decameron (1351–53), Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387–1400), and the Thousand and One Nights (c. 1450), in which an embracing narrative acts as a framework within which many tales are told.

Page 703 of 1841