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Narrative Form

Revised and Expanded Second Edition

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Shapes of Narrative: A Whole of Parts

    • Suzanne Keen
    Pages 19-32
  3. Plot and Causation: Related Events

    • Suzanne Keen
    Pages 74-89
  4. Timing: How Long and How Often?

    • Suzanne Keen
    Pages 90-97
  5. Order and Disorder

    • Suzanne Keen
    Pages 98-106
  6. Levels: Realms of Existence

    • Suzanne Keen
    Pages 107-114
  7. Fictional Worlds and Fictionality

    • Suzanne Keen
    Pages 115-125
  8. Nonfiction and Fiction in Disguise

    • Suzanne Keen
    Pages 126-139
  9. Genres and Conventions

    • Suzanne Keen
    Pages 140-151
  10. Narrative Emotions

    • Suzanne Keen
    Pages 152-161
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 162-211

About this book

This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Washington and Lee University, Lexington, USA

    Suzanne Keen

About the author

Suzanne Keen is Dean of the College at Washington and Lee University, USA. She writes about narrative empathy and the impact of immersion reading, and her books include Thomas Hardy's Brains, Empathy and the Novel, Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction, Victorian Renovations of the Novel, and a volume of poetry.

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