Telling Stories

<p>First Published in 2002. We are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. Modes and categories inherited from the past no longer seem to fit the reality experienced by a new generation. <i>New Accents </i>is intended as a positive response to the initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change; to stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study. This book introduces a theoretical framework for studying narrative fiction. A <i>narrative </i>recounts a story, a series of events in a temporal sequence.</p> Chapter 1 Theorizing language; Chapter 2 Analyzing textuality; Chapter 3 The structures of narrative; Chapter 4 The structures of narrative; Chapter 5 Decoding texts; Chapter 6 The subject of narrative;