Once Upon a Time: Eight Stories about Narrative

Once Upon a Time: Eight Stories about Narrative

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Overview

1. Pat Hutchin’s Rosie’s Walk
2. The Ontogeny of Narrative
3. Five Propositions
4. Homer, The Odyssey (transl. Robert Fagles)
5. The Oral Tradition
6. Mimesis
7. The Brothers Grimm, ‘The Frog King, or Iron Henry’
8. Folk and Fairy Tales and Formalism
9. Against Formalism’s Dual Approach
10. The Coen Brothers, The Big Lebowski
11. Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
12. Plot, Story and Narrative
13. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
14. Modernism
15. John Barth, ‘Life-Story’
16. Metafiction
17. The Postmodern Condition
18. Graham Gibbs, ‘Twenty Terrible Reasons for Lecturing’