The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative

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by H. Porter Abbott

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published March 2002, 200 pages, paper

ISBN 0521659698

This study is designed to help readers understand what narrative is, how it is constructed, how it acts upon us, how we act upon it, how it is transmitted, and how it changes when the medium or the cultural context change. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not only in the arts but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives. This book will guide readers through the fundamental aspects of narrative.