Description
Unlike most theories of narrative text that focus on the strong opposition between narration (diegesis) and speech (mimesis), the book directs attention to a component often overlooked — narrative commentary (exegesis). The author's concentrated interest is thus in the relationships between narratives that eliminate commentary (e.g., adventure or allegorical genres) and narratives whose effect relies on the discursive forces of narrative rhetoric. The forms and functions of narrative rhetoric are examined from medieval entertaining prose to contemporary Czech novels. In a figurative literary series, which is not understood as a developmental line but as an interpretative tactic, important functions of commentary emerge in Czech literature from various historical periods: in older literature, they co-created moralizing or educational genres, in the nineteenth century, they constituted the folk education story, as well as the historical and social novel, and in contemporary literature, for example, the productive genre of self-reflexive novel.
Information
Author: Koten Jiří
Publication date: June 19, 2020
Manufacturer: Host - vydavatelství, s. r. o.
Genres: Art and architecture, Non-fiction literature, Books, Specialized and technical literature
Type: Books - paperback
Pages: 255
ISBN/EAN: 9788027502479