Cycles of Influence: Fiction, Folktale, Theory

by Stephen Benson

Book Overview

Analyzes how the folktale has influenced the development of narrative theory and how postmodern fiction has drawn on the folktale to experiment with diverse narrative concepts.

In this wide-ranging and insightful analysis, Stephen Benson proposes a poetics of narrative for postmodernism by placing new emphasis on the folktale. Postmodernist fictions have evidenced a return to narrative--to storytelling centered on a sequence of events,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814329497
• ISBN13: 9780814329498
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"