Fiction, Folktale, Theory
Edición de la obra Cycles of Influence
| Autor | Stephen Benson |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Wayne State University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | March 2003 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 288 |
| Formato | Hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9780814329498 |
| ISBN-10 | 0814329497 |
| OCLC | 49936034 |
| LCCN | 2002008513 |
| Número de Cutter | B474c |
In this wide-ranging and insightful analysis, the author proposes a poetics of narrative for postmodernism by placing new emphasis on the folktale. He beings by examining the key features of folktales: their emphasis on a chain of events rather than description or consciousness, their emphasis on a self-contained fictional environment rather than realism, the presence of a storyteller as a self-confessed fabricator, their oral and communal status, and their ever-changing state, which defies authoritative versions.