Authors: Seymour Chatman
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-30 - Publisher: Cornell University Press
This book is the first comprehensive approach in English to a general theory of narrative, both in verbal and in visual media. The primary question to which Professor Chatman addresses himself is what narrative is in itself. Following such French structuralists as Roland Barthes, Tzvetan Todorov, and Gerard Genette, he