Although the body has recently emerged throughout the humanities and social sciences as an object revealing the power and limits of representation, the study of narrative has almost entirely ignored human corporeality. As this book shows, attention to the body raises uncomfortable questions about the historicity of basic narrative concepts like character, plot, and narration--q...(展开全部)

"The location of the author's investigations, the body itself rather than the sphere of subjective representations of self and of function in cultures, is wholly new...I believe this work will be a landmark in future feminist thinking". (Alphonso Lingis). "This is a text of rare erudition and intellectual force. It will not only introduce feminists to an enriching set of theore...(展开全部)

"The location of the author's investigations, the body itself rather than the sphere of subjective representations of self and of function in cultures, is wholly new...I believe this work will be a landmark in future feminist thinking". (Alphonso Lingis). "This is a text of rare erudition and intellectual force. It will not only introduce feminists to an enriching set of theore...(展开全部)

Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become the international classic and comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts. Narratology is a systematic account of narrative techniques, methods, their transmission, and reception, in which Bal distills years of study of the ways in which we understand both literary and non-literar...(展开全部)

Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become the international classic and comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts. Narratology is a systematic account of narrative techniques, methods, their transmission, and reception, in which Bal distills years of study of the ways in which we understand both literary and non-literar...(展开全部)

杰拉德·普林斯（Gerald Prince），美国宾夕法尼亚大学罗曼语系终身教授，国际知名的叙事理论家、法语文学学者。他从20世纪60年代起就从事叙事学研究，堪称该学科从结构主义时代到后经典叙事学时代这一全部历程的见证者与参与者，至今活跃于国际学界。先后以法语、英语出版若干种叙事学与小说研究著作，主要有《萨特小说中的形而上学与技巧》《故事的语法》《叙事学：叙事的形式与功能》《叙述学词典》《作为主题的叙事：法语小说研究》《法语小说指南（1901-1950）》等，还有多篇重要论文。他曾分别为约翰·霍普金斯大学出版社和内布拉斯加大学出版社合作编辑了“Parallax”与“Stages”两套丛书。他还是《叙事》《文体》《变音》《法语论坛》等十数家知名学术期刊的编委或顾问。2011年10月，普林斯教授应邀来华，作为特邀专家出席了在长沙举行的第三届叙事学国际会议...(展开全部)