On Narrative

by W.J. Thomas Mitchell

Book Overview

The fourteen distinguished contributors to this volume explore ways we tell, understand, and use stories. More important, through their exploration they collectively demonstrate that the study of narrative, like the study of other significant human creations, has taken a quantum leap in the modern era. No longer the province of literary specialists who borrow their terms from psychology or linguistics, the study of narrative has become and invaluable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226532178
• ISBN13: 9780226532172
• Release Date: November 1981
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"