DICTIONARY OF NARRATOLOGY (ED PRINCE) (P)

"A Dictionary of Narratology is a remarkable feat. It is a specialized dictionary documenting important research, compiled by a scholar who has been centrally involved in the field and who writes with clarity, precision, and a sense of humor."--Substance "A Dictionary of Narratology fills an important gap. Prince knows the subject well: he helped to invent it. In many cases, he has made terms that were opaque quite understandable. The book is lucid and easy to use."-Seymour Chatman, author of Story and Discourse. "Gerald Prince's work has always been marked by soundness, expertise, objectivity, and precision. A Dictionary of Narratology establishes standards of meaning which will be of great help to narratologists often struggling in a Babel of contradictions and synonyms."-Harold F. Mosher, Jr., editor of Style. History, literature, religion, myth, film, psychology, theory, and daily conversation all rely heavily upon narrative. So it is hardly surprising that studies of the art of narrative abound. Narrative has a language much its own, with regularly recurring patterns, deeply established conventions for transmission, and interpretive codes, whether in a novel, cartoon, or case study. Cutting across many disciplines, narratology describes and analyzes this language, and only recently have serious attempts been made to regularize it to permit one expert to understand another. In A Dictionary of Narratology, Gerald Prince provides quick and reliable access to terms and concepts that are defined, illustrated, and cross-referenced. All entries are keyed to articles or books in which the terms originate or are exemplified. Important as the first book of its kind, A Dictionary of Narratology should prove indispensable to writers, critics, and scholars in many fields. Gerald Prince is a professor of French at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include Narratology: The Form and Functioning of Narrative (1982).Prince, Gerald is the author of 'DICTIONARY OF NARRATOLOGY (ED PRINCE) (P)' with ISBN 9780803287143 and ISBN 0803287143.