Traditions in Narrative and the Age of Visual Culture.
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Table of Content.
Part I. Key Concepts: Storytelling, Genre, Drama.
* The Roots of Symbolic Narrative: Storytelling, Experience, and Community .
* The Tree of Genres: Narrative Formulas and Cultural Functions .
* From Story to Spectacle: The Art of Dramatic Storytelling .
Part II. Pivotal Protagonists and Symbolic Narratives.
* Tragedy vs. Thriller. Narrating the Events of Death from Aristotle to Hitchcock .
* The Hero's Journey: Sons of Prometheus and the Paradigm of Death-Rebirth .
* The Fool's Joke: Carnivals, Reversible Worlds, and Paradoxes of Topsy-Turvy .
* Stories of Extraordinary Ordinary People or the Expressiveness of Realism: .
The Naked Man, The Little Man, The Everyman, and The Mass-Man.
* Tales of Rebellion: Noble Thieves and Outcasts as Heroes and Villains: .
Loss of Freedom and Jail House Tales from Spartacus to the Cuckoo's Nest.
* The Tradition of The Antihero: The Dangerous Protagonist and His Path to Power .
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Part III: Experimental Fiction and Possible Worlds.
* Narrative Chronotopes: Journeys in the Time and Space of Fictional Worlds .
* Modernist Paradigms: New Narrative and the Birth of Experimental Storytelling .
* Postmodern Paradigms: Antinarrative and the Death of Story .
* America's Favorites: Murder Mystery, Film Noir, and Narratives of Suspense. .
The Tradition of Narrative Maze from Ritual Riddle to Popular Culture.
* Transcendental Narrative: Reaching to the Beyond by Telling a Story .
* Cops, Doctors, Friends, and Dysfunctional Families. Making Home Improvement in the Full House: Storytelling on TV and the Symbolic Construction of Community. .
* Homer on the Hollodeck: The Future of Storytelling and the Poetics of Tomorrow - Is It Interactive? Hyperreal? Multinarrative? Polyphonic? Transcultural? .