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Barthes, R. (1966) ‘Introduction à l’analyse structurale des récits’
Communications 8; trans. S.
Heath, ‘Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative’, in Image, Music, Text, New York: Wang & Hill, 1977; London, Fontana, 1977. (An influential version of the structuralist approach to narrative.) |
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Benvenista, E. (1966, 1974) Problèmes de linguistique générale, Paris: Gallimard, 2 vols; vol. 1 trans. M.E.
Meek, Problems in General Linguistics, Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press, 1971. (A source for the idea of narrative without utterance.) |
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Booth, W.C. (1983) The Rhetoric of Fiction, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2nd edn. (A classic study of the forms of narrative, with emphasis on the idea of the implied author. Excellent bibliography.) |
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Carroll, N. (1990) ‘Interpretation, History and Narrative’, The Monist 73: 134–66. (A careful exposition and criticism of some antirealist views about historical narrative.) |
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Chatman, S. (1986) ‘Characters and Narrators’, Poetics Today 7: 189–204. (Criticizes some extensions of the notion of focalization.) |
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Currie, G. (1993) ‘Interpretation and Objectivity’, Mind 102: 413–28. (Argues that there is a degree of relativism inherent in the attempt to interpret narratives.) |
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Currie, G. (1994) ‘Unreliability Refigured: Narrative in Literature and Film’, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53: 19–29. (Critical of standard assumptions of narrative theory concerning the role of the implied author and of the narrator.) |
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Genette, G. (1972) ‘Discours du récit’, in Figures III, Paris: Editions du Seuil; trans. J.E.
Lewin, Narrative Discourse, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1980. (A classic development of narrative theory through close readings of Proust.) |
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Intyre, A. (1985) After Virtue, London: Duckworth, 2nd edn. (Argues for ‘a concept of a self whose unity resides in the unity of a narrative’.) |
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Nehamas, A. (1985) Nietzsche: Life as Literature, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (An interpretation and defence of Nietzsche assimilation of ‘the ideal person to the ideal literary character and the ideal life to the ideal story’.) |
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Savile, A. (1996) ‘Instrumentalism and the Interpretation of Narrative’, Mind 105: 553–76. (Argues for the objectivity of narrative interpretation.) |
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White, H. (1987) The Content of Form, Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. (The work of an influential historical antirealist.) |