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Distance and Dramatization

Narrative Theory is an online introduction to classical structuralist narratological analysis. The fourth section deals with the modes of narrative, "showing" and "telling", as theorized by Henry James and other theorists of the dramatic aesthetics in narrative.

Outline:

1. Two concepts of narrative distance;
2. The theory of the novel before James; Besant's 'Art of Fiction';
3. James and the Art of the Novel;
4. The Novel as an Organic Unit;
5. Point of View;
6. The Revaluation of Narrative;
7. Distance: Conclusion.

Full text:

Distance and Dramatization:

Henry James on the Art of Fiction (Narrative Theory, 4)

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2732338

http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2732338
Number of Pages in PDF File: 16
Keywords: Narratology, Theory of narrative, Aesthetics, Novel, Dramatic structure, Narrative perspective, Henry James

eJournal Classifications (Date posted: February 15, 2016)

CSN Subject Matter eJournals

Cognition & the Arts eJournal - CMBO

CSN: Mental Operations (Cognition & the Arts) (Topic) - CMBO

CSN: Narrative & Story (Sub-Topic) - CMBO

LIT Subject Matter eJournals

Literary Theory & Criticism eJournal - CMBO

Also here:

_____. "Story: Distance and Dramatization (Henry James on the Art of Fiction)." In García Landa, Narrative Theory. 1990. Online at Net Sight de José Angel García Landa (2005):

http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/publicaciones/narrativetheory/4.Distance.htm

2005 DISCONTINUED 2021- Online at the Internet Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190914132323/http://www.unizar.es:80/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/publicaciones/narrativetheory/4.Distance.htm

2022

http://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/narrativetheory/4.Distance.htm

2022

_____. "Distance and Dramatization: Henry James on the Art of Fiction (Narrative Theory, 4). Social Science Research Network 15 Feb. 2016.*

http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2732338

http://ssrn.com/abstract=27332338

2016

Cognition & the Arts eJournal 15 Feb. 2016.*

http://www.ssrn.com/link/Cognition-Arts.html