The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative

What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature film and theatre but everywhere in the ordinary course of people''s lives. This widely used introduction now revised and expanded in its third edition is informed throughout by recent developments in the field and includes one new chapter. The glossary and bibliography have been expanded and new sections explore unnatural narrative retrograde narrative reader-resistant narratives intermedial narrative narrativity and multiple interpretation. With its lucid exposition of concepts and suggestions for further reading this book is not only an excellent introduction for courses focused on narrative but also an invaluable resource for students and scholars across a wide range of fields including literature and drama film and media society and politics journalism autobiography history and still others throughout the arts humanities and social sciences.