Narratives in Popular Culture, Media, and Everyday LifeExplains narrative theory and applies it to readers' everyday experience with popular forms of mass media, discussing narrative interpretation and analysis on an accessible level. Part I overviews key narrative theorists and techniques. Part II considers the narrative elements of dreams, fairy tales |
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... interesting and want to follow their adventures , so authors have to find ways of making characters worth bothering with , so to speak . As a rule , the characters in narratives are not representative of ordinary people . On television ...
... interesting and want to follow their adventures , so authors have to find ways of making characters worth bothering with , so to speak . As a rule , the characters in narratives are not representative of ordinary people . On television ...
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... interesting and that they do interesting things ; whether character or action is primary is not a par- ticularly important matter . The novel in popular culture often is formulaic in nature , and many such novels can be classified as ...
... interesting and that they do interesting things ; whether character or action is primary is not a par- ticularly important matter . The novel in popular culture often is formulaic in nature , and many such novels can be classified as ...
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... interesting and worth following , want to have these characters interact with one another in ways that amuse us , teach us something about life , and give us something to think about . People read popular culture genre fiction for ...
... interesting and worth following , want to have these characters interact with one another in ways that amuse us , teach us something about life , and give us something to think about . People read popular culture genre fiction for ...
Contents
The Nature of Narratives | 1 |
Theorists of Narrativity | 19 |
A Modification of Propps Theory | 30 |
Copyright | |
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