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Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42847-7 — The Cambridge Companion to Narrative Theory Edited by Matthew Garrett Frontmatter More Information the cambridge companion to narrative theory Narrative theory is essential to everything from history to lyric poetry, from novels to the latest Hollywood blockbuster. Narrative theory explores how storiesworkandhowwemakethemwork.ThisCompanionisbothanintro- duction and a contribution to the field. It presents narrative theory as an approachtounderstandingallkindsofculturalproduction:fromliterarytexts tohistoriography,fromfilmandvideogamestophilosophicaldiscourse.Ittakes the long historical view, outlines essential concepts, and reflects on the way narrative forms connect with and rework social forms. The volume analyzes central premises, identifies narrative theory’s feminist foundations, and elabo- ratesitssignificancetoqueertheoryandissuesofrace.Thespeciallycommis- sioned essays are exciting to read, uniting accessibility and rigor, traditional concerns with a renovated sense of the field as a whole, and analytical clarity with stylistic dash. Topical and substantial, The Cambridge Companion to NarrativeTheoryisanengagingresourceonakeycontemporaryconcept. Matthew Garrett is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Wesleyan University, where he directs the Certificate in Social, Cultural, and CriticalTheory.HeistheauthorofEpisodicPoetics:PoliticsandLiteraryForm after the Constitution (2014) as well as essays in American Literary History, AmericanQuarterly,CriticalInquiry,ELH,theJournalofCulturalEconomy, andRadicalHistoryReview,amongotherjournals. 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Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature,andCivilizationandProfessorofEnglishatStanfordUniversity.Her bookTheNovelandtheSea(2010)wasawardedtheLouisR.Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the George and BarbaraPerkinsPrizefromtheInternationalSocietyfortheStudyoftheNarrative. SheisalsotheauthorofProfaneIllumination:WalterBenjaminandtheParisof SurrealistRevolution(1993)andTheSentimentalEducationoftheNovel(1999), which received the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize in French and Francophone literature. She has coedited two collections of scholarship on the European novel: The Literary Channel: The Inter-National Invention of the Novel (2002), with Carolyn Dever, and Spectacles of Realism: Body,Gender,Genre(1995),withChristopherPrendergast.Cohenhaseditedand translatedSophieCottin’sbest-sellingnovelof1799,Claired’Albe(2003),andhas alsoeditedacriticaleditionofGustaveFlaubert’sMadameBovary(2004).Sheis currentlycompletingabookshowinghowthemodernimaginationoftheocean depths has been shaped by science and technology that enables people to view ahithertoinaccessiblerealmandtorepresentoceanicconditionsonland. jonathan culler is the Class of 1916 Professor of English at Cornell University.HisStructuralistPoetics:Structuralism,Linguistics,andtheStudyof Literature(1975)wontheLowellPrizeoftheModernLanguageAssociationand establishedhisreputationasanalystandexpositorofcriticaltheory.Nowknown especially for On Deconstruction (1982) and Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (1997), which has been translated into some 26 languages, he has mostrecentlypublishedTheoryoftheLyric(2015).Cullerhasbeenpresidentof theAmericanComparativeLiteratureAssociationandwaselectedtotheAmerican AcademyofArtsandSciencesin2001andtotheAmericanPhilosophicalSocietyin 2006. mark currie isProfessorofContemporaryLiteratureatQueenMaryUniversity ofLondon.HeistheauthorofMetafiction(1995),PostmodernNarrativeTheory (1998),Difference(2004),TheInventionofDeconstruction(2013),AboutTime x © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org
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