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Narrative is a powerful element of human culture, storing and sharing the cherished parts of our personal memories and giving structure to our laws, entertainment, and history. We experience narrative in words, pictures, and film, yet regardless of how the tale is told, story remains independent from the media that makes it concrete. Narrative follows humans wherever they travel and adapts readily to new forms of communication. Constantly evolving and always up-to-date, narrative is a necessary strategy of human expression and a fundamental component of human identity. In order to understand human interaction, award-winning scholar Rick Altman launches a close study of narrative's nature, its variation in different contexts, and the method through which it makes meaning. Altman's approach breaks away from traditional forms of analysis, identifying three basic strategies: single-focus, dual-focus, and multiple-focus. Unpacking an intentionally diverse selection of texts, Altman demonstrates how these strategies function in context and illustrates their theoretical and practical applications in terms of textual analysis, literary and film history, social organization, religion, and politics. He employs inventive terminology and precise analytical methods throughout his groundbreaking work, making this volume ideal for teaching literary and film theory and for exploring the anatomy of narrative on a more general level.… (mere)
eowynfaramir: Excellently written and lucid explication of narrative theory.
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This is an excellent introduction to narratology and the study of narrative. In Chapter One, Altman offers a clear overview of "The Traditional Understanding of Narrative" and his suggestions for "A New Approach to Narrative Analysis."
Chapter Two is a tour-de-force study of The Song of Roland, a medieval Anglo-Saxon epic (which in my opinion shows clear evidence of influencing Tolkien). I reread this chapter recently because I read The Song of Roland for the first time. Altman's ideas about "following patterns," "symmetry," "integration," and "polarity adjustment" are insightful and beautifully expressed.
Altman's greatest strength in my opinion is that he brings the reader up to an understanding quickly, and does not obfuscate (bewilder, confuse, or stupefy) while making his case for his theories. ( )
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Among human endeavors, few are more widely spread or more generally endowed with cultural importance than narrative--the practice of storytelling. Not only are stories universally told, stored, and analyzed, but also they regularly occupy a place of honor in society.
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If we would understand the ways in which humans interact, we must take up the challenge of narrative. What is it? How does it make meaning? (1).
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Narrative is a powerful element of human culture, storing and sharing the cherished parts of our personal memories and giving structure to our laws, entertainment, and history. We experience narrative in words, pictures, and film, yet regardless of how the tale is told, story remains independent from the media that makes it concrete. Narrative follows humans wherever they travel and adapts readily to new forms of communication. Constantly evolving and always up-to-date, narrative is a necessary strategy of human expression and a fundamental component of human identity. In order to understand human interaction, award-winning scholar Rick Altman launches a close study of narrative's nature, its variation in different contexts, and the method through which it makes meaning. Altman's approach breaks away from traditional forms of analysis, identifying three basic strategies: single-focus, dual-focus, and multiple-focus. Unpacking an intentionally diverse selection of texts, Altman demonstrates how these strategies function in context and illustrates their theoretical and practical applications in terms of textual analysis, literary and film history, social organization, religion, and politics. He employs inventive terminology and precise analytical methods throughout his groundbreaking work, making this volume ideal for teaching literary and film theory and for exploring the anatomy of narrative on a more general level.
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Chapter Two is a tour-de-force study of The Song of Roland, a medieval Anglo-Saxon epic (which in my opinion shows clear evidence of influencing Tolkien). I reread this chapter recently because I read The Song of Roland for the first time. Altman's ideas about "following patterns," "symmetry," "integration," and "polarity adjustment" are insightful and beautifully expressed.
Altman's greatest strength in my opinion is that he brings the reader up to an understanding quickly, and does not obfuscate (bewilder, confuse, or stupefy) while making his case for his theories. ( )