{"product_id":"story-and-discourse","title":"Story and Discourse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An important American contribution to the study of narrative theory.\"\u003c\/b\u003e―Choice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is the first comprehensive approach in English to a general theory of narrative, both in verbal and in visual media.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe primary question to which Professor Chatman addresses himself is what narrative is in itself. Following such French structuralists as Roland Barthes, Tzvetan Todorov, and Gerard Genette, he posits a what and a way. \"The what of narrative,\" he says, \"I call its 'story'; the way, I call its 'discourse.'\" Liberally illustrating his concepts with discussions of particular novels and films, he effects a synthesis of the latest Continental critical thinking about narrative and the Anglo-American tradition exemplified by Henry James, Percy Lubbock, Wayne Booth, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA judicious and well-informed book, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eStory and Discourse\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e should become a standard guide to narrative and to modern thinking about narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Seymour Chatman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43571827540150,"sku":"9780801411311","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780801411311_8acab7e9-b67a-4fbb-96a4-eaeb6967a777.jpg?v=1725625521","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/story-and-discourse","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}