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Narrative structure

About: Narrative structure is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2742 publications have been published within this topic receiving 56041 citations.


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TL;DR: Cutler as mentioned in this paper presents a Translator's Preface Preface and Preface for English-to-Arabic Translating Translators (TSPT) with a preface by Jonathan Cutler.
Abstract: Foreword by Jonathan Cutler Translator's Preface PrefaceIntroduction 1. Order 2. Duration 3. Frequency 4. Mood 5. VoiceAfterword Bibliography Index

1,852 citations

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08 Dec 1994
TL;DR: The authors explores the rites of a sexual story-telling culture and examines the nature of these newly emerging narratives and the socio-historical conditions which have given rise to them, and suggests that a sociology of stories asks different questions about stories from those posed within cultural studies.
Abstract: The world has become cluttered with sexual stories. From child abuse scandals to lesbians and gays coming out; from Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas to the troubles of Michael Jackson; from sexual surveys to therapy groups?sexual talk has become more and more evident. This book explores the rites of a sexual story telling culture. Taking three major examples?rape stories, coming out stories, recovery stories?it examines the nature of these newly emerging narratives and the socio-historical conditions which have given rise to them. It looks at the rise of the women?s movement, the lesbian and gay movement and the ?recovery? movement as harbingers of significant social change that encourage the telling of new stories. In a powerful concluding section, the book turns to the wider concern of how story telling may be changing in a postmodern culture and how central it may be in the creation of a participatory democratic political culture. Ken Plummer illustrates how ?the narrative turn? of cultural studies may be taken up within sociology and suggests that a sociology of stories asks different questions about stories from those posed within cultural studies. The fascination with texts?with narrative structure, genre and metaphor?is now supplemented with questions around the social and political role that stories play, with the social processes through which they are constructed and consumed, with the political changes that stories may encourage. Telling Sexual Stories is a major contribution to our understanding of sexuality and the cultures of intimacy.

1,517 citations

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01 Jan 2002
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an excellent introduction for courses focused on narrative but also an invaluable resource for students and scholars across a wide range of fields, including literature and drama, film and media, society and politics, journalism, autobiography, history, and still others throughout the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Abstract: What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, film, and theatre, but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives. This widely used introduction, now revised and expanded in its third edition, is informed throughout by recent developments in the field and includes one new chapter. The glossary and bibliography have been expanded, and new sections explore unnatural narrative, retrograde narrative, reader-resistant narratives, intermedial narrative, narrativity, and multiple interpretation. With its lucid exposition of concepts, and suggestions for further reading, this book is not only an excellent introduction for courses focused on narrative but also an invaluable resource for students and scholars across a wide range of fields, including literature and drama, film and media, society and politics, journalism, autobiography, history, and still others throughout the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

1,236 citations

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17 Apr 2002
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the uses of the story, the legal and the literary, and the creation of self in the form of a story, and so why narrative.
Abstract: Preface 1. The Uses of the Story 2. The Legal and the Literary 3. The Narrative Creation of Self 4. So Why Narrative? Notes Index

1,180 citations


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