The Nature of Narrative - Softcover

Scholes, Robert; Kellogg, Robert

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ISBN 10: 0195007735 ISBN 13: 9780195007732

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1968

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This analytical study provides a welcome balance to the critical practice of judging all narrative literature by standards appropriate only to the novel. Scholes and Kellogg argue that such a narrow view obscures the real tradition of narrative literature in the Western world. Examining the
work of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Lawrence, Faulkner, and other writers of this century, they consider elements common to all narrative forms, including myth, folktale, epic, romance, allegory, confession, and satire.

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About the Author:

Robert Scholes is at Brown University. Robert Kellogg is at University of Virginia.

Review:

"Still a basic study, and the only one of its kind."--Andrew Welsh, Rutgers University

"A pioneer venture into one of the richest areas in literature, this volume is worthy of comparison with the classic studies of Harry Levin and Rene Wellek."--Modern Language Journal

"Still the most valuable introduction to the formal, historical, and generic aspects of fiction and narrative."--Francis Blessington, Northeastern University

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