CLASSICAL PLOT AND THE INVENTION OF WESTERN NARRATIVE by Lowe, N J ISBN 0521771765
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How western literature developed the economical plotting still supreme in modern fiction and cinema.
From Homer to Hollywood, the western storytelling tradition has canonised a distinctive set of narrative values characterised by tight economy and closure. This book traces the formation of that classical paradigm in the development of ancient storytelling from Homer to Heliodorus. To tell this story, the book sets out to rehabilitate the idea of 'plot', notoriously disconnected from any recognised system of terminology in recent literary theory. The first part of the book draws on current developments in narratology and cognitive science to propose a new way of formally describing the way stories are structured and understood. This model is then used to write a history of the emergence of the classical plot type in the four ancient genres that shaped it - Homeric epic, fifth-century tragedy, New Comedy, and the Greek novel - with new insights into the fundamental narrative poetics of each.
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CLASSICAL PLOT AND THE INVENTION OF WESTERN NARRATIVE
[edit] Author
Lowe, N J
[edit] ISBN
0521771765
[edit] Published
01/06/2000
[edit] Publisher
Cambridge University Press
[edit] Binding
hardback
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48 (GBP)
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