From Plato to Lumière: Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema

by André Gaudreault

With this lucid translation of Du litteraire au filmique, Andr Gaudreault's highly influential and original study of film narratology is now accessible to English-language audiences for the first time. Building a theory of narrative on sources as diverse as Plato, The Arabian Nights, and Proust, From Plato to Lumi re challenges narratological orthodoxy by positing that all forms of narrative are mediated by an "underlying narrator"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802095860
• ISBN13: 9780802095862
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"