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This revised and multiplied instruction manual concisely introduces narrative shape to complicated scholars of fiction and inventive writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive methods to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions.
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Keywords The ‘Keywords’ section of each chapter connects the terminology of the chapter with similar or related uses of critical or theoretical language. Keywords are presented alphabetically, with a brief explanation of the relationship between the terms discussed in this chapter and the other meanings. Epic and novel. Mikhail Bakhtin pairs epic and novel in order to advance his methodology for the study of the novel in ‘Epic and Novel’ (The Dialogic Imagination, 3–40). In this essay Bakhtin contrasts the novel, the only uncompleted genre, with the pre-existing form of the epic, a ‘congealed and half-moribund’ genre Shapes of Narrative 31 typified by its representation of a remote national heroic past, based on tradition, and located at an absolute distance from the teller and audience (13–14).
Price, Leah. The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel: From Richardson to George Eliot. Cambridge University Press, 2000. A subtle account of anthologizing, excerpting, and condensing of long prose narratives. 32 Narrative Form Sutherland, John. Victorian Fiction: Writers, Publishers, Readers. St. Martin’s, 1995. A lively account of the material conditions of authorship for Victorian novelists: practical matters have an impact on narrative form. Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding.
Each of these circumstances for narrative’s reception has its own effects on the length, shapes, and subdivisions of narrative, and each makes different demands on our time, attention, memory, patience, and physical endurance. Experience tells us that narrative takes a great variety of shapes, from the 30-second advertisement to the immense novel sequence. This chapter focuses on the most common shapes of prose fiction, only briefly noting oral, verse, and film forms. While ‘narrative’ conveys what all these storytelling shapes have in common, ‘narrative literature’ is comprised of a wide array of forms each with its own distinct literary history.