Postmodern Narrative Theory: 22 (Transitions) - Currie, Mark

Postmodern Narrative TheoryAuthor(s): Mark Currie\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Red Globe Press\nISBN-13: 9780230249363, 978-0230249363\nSynopsis\nHow have developments in literary and cultural theory transformed our understanding of narrative? What has happened to narrative in the wake of poststructuralism? What is the role and function of narrative in the contemporary world?\n\nIn this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores these central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Postmodern Narrative Theory, Second Edition:\n establishes direct links between the workings of fictional narratives and those of the non-fictional world\n charts the transition in narrative theory from its formalist beginnings, through deconstruction, towards its current concerns with the social, cultural and cognitive uses of narra.