Narratives and Narrators

Narratives and Narrators
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 9780199282609
ISBN-13 : 0199282609
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Download or read book Narratives and Narrators written by Gregory Currie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory Currie offers a reflection on the nature and significance of narrative in human communication. He shows that narratives are devices for manifesting the intentions of their makers in stories, argues that human tendencies to imitation and to joint attention underlie the pleasure of narrative, and discusses authorship, character, and irony.


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