Ebook: Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film

Synthesizing the work of continental critics such as Genette, Todorov, and Barthes, and that of critics in the Anglo-American tradition, such as Lubbock and Booth, Seymour Chatman provides a comprehensive approach to a general theory of narrative, in both verbal and visual media. In this book, he analyzes what narrative is 'in itself.'