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Caws analyzes an important feature of modern literary narrative--passages that stand out from the flow of the prose, larger-than-life scenes that seem to hold the essence of the work. She analyzes the techniques of literary framing in the works of Jane Austen, Melville, Poe, Hardy, Baudelaire, Henry James, Proust, and Woolf. She moves from Jane Austen's psychological and architectural borders, Melville's Pierre as a parody of framing, and Hardy's...

This study is designed to help readers understand what narrative is, how it is constructed, how it acts upon us, how we act upon it, how it is transmitted, and how it changes when the medium or the cultural context change. In this indispensable guidebook, Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not only in the arts but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives.

This book defines narrative theory and gives an overview of its history and key concepts. To illustrate the theory the author then applies narrative techniques to a range of popular forms of mass media including fairy tales, comics, novels and films.

Genette uses Proust's Remembrance of Things Past as a work to identify and name the basic constituents and techniques of narrative. Genette illustrates the examples by referring to other literary works. His systemic theory of narrative deals with the structure of fiction, including fictional devices that go unnoticed and whose implications fulfill the Western narrative tradition.

What we don't know about learning could fill a book - and it might be a schoolbook. In a masterful commentary on the possibilities of education, the eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it often fails to do so. Applying the newly emerging "cultural psychology" to education, Bruner proposes that the mind reaches its full potential only through participation in the culture - not just...

"Personal narratives are receiving considerable interest as reflections of important psychological processes. Less attention, however, has been paid to how narratives are constructed among family members and serve as markers of family relationship functioning that directly affect child development. As a group activity, the telling of family stories may be one way that families regulate social interactions. As reflections of individual and family beliefs,...