COMING TO TERMS: THE RHETORIC OF NARRATIVE IN FICTION AND FILM
Book ID/图书代码： 03360011B46201
English Summary/英文概要： Seymour Chatman’s Story and Discourse (1978) integrated the most useful features of Anglo-American and Continental narrative theory into a general theory of narratology. In COMING TO TERMS, the sequel to that classic work, Chatman assays the field of narratology over its thirty-year history and offers a challengeing reassessment of its terms and concepts. Chatman discussed a wide range of literary and cinematic texts, asserting that a general narratology can help to account for their commonalities and divergences. Chatman examines narratology from both external and internal perspectives. He considers the external relations of narrative -- particularly fictional narrative -- to other types of discourse, positing a set of distinctions about its position among the text-types. To explain how other text-types such as argument and description may be incorporated within a narrative framework -- and vice versa -- Chatman proposes a concept of textual "service." He also discusses questions internal to narratology, especially about concepts that remain controversial: for example, the implied author, the nature of the narrator in film and literature, the concept of character "point of view" (which he renames "filter"), and the distinction between "unreliable narration" and what he calls "fallible filtration." In an extended analysis of The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Chatman demonstrates what narratologists can learn from film adaptations of novels. In conclusion, he reformulates Wayne Booth’s germinal concept of "the rhetoric of fiction" as a term for contemporary narratology.
This provocative book makes a vital contribution to ongoing debates about the central terms of narrative theory and the questions those terms are designed to address. Anyone interest in narrative and in film will want to read COMING TO TERMS.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书关注的是叙事学以及通常的文本理论的术语。它力求从两个角度对叙事术语学作出统一化论述。前四章是第一个角度，它是外部的，关注的是叙述（Narrative）——尤其是虚构的叙述——与其他种类的话语或“文本类型”之间的关系。接下来的六章从一个内部角度走近叙事学。它们检验了仍处于争议中的一些概念与公式：隐含作者，叙述者的本质，人物“视点”或“聚焦”的概念，以及“不可靠叙述”与作者所谓“易错过滤者”之间的区别。整个论述中，作者都从文学与电影两方面引述例证，以增强理论的可理解性。(DB)
Awards/获奖情况："COMING TO TERMS is clearly a major effort in the ongoing project of expanding and specifying our knowledge of narrative and the terms and concepts of our narratological theory and criticism." --- Harold F. Mosher, Jr., Northern Illinois University, Style
"A stimulating book, not least because Chatman masters the diffcult art of writing theory in a lucid and interesting manner. . . . COMING TO TERMS offers a number of original insights and suggestions, and where it does not do so, it provides a clear and useful exposition of the relevant ideas and arguments put forward by other scholars. For those interested in narrative theory or in the relation between fiction and film, coming to terms with this book will be a worthwhile endeavor." --- Burkhard Niederhoff, Amerikastudien
About the Author/作者介绍： 西摩•查特曼（Seymour Chatman，1928—2015），美国电影与文学批评家、叙事学家。加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校修辞学教授。他被认为是结构主义叙事学或经典叙事学的杰出代表。主要著作有《亨利•詹姆斯的晚期风格》（The Later Style of Henry James）、《故事与话语：小说和电影的叙事结构》（Story and Discourse：Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film）、《安东尼奥尼，或世界的表象》（Antonioni，or the Surface of the World）、《术语评论：小说与电影的叙事修辞学》（Coming to Terms：The Rhetoric of Narrative in Fiction and Film）、《解读叙事虚构作品》（Reading Narrative Fiction）及与保罗•邓肯（Paul Duncan）合著的《米开朗基罗•安东尼奥尼：全部的电影》（Michelangelo Antonioni：The Complete Films）等。著作被译成多种语言，在国际学界有巨大影响。
Seymour Chatman (born 1928) is an American film and literary critic, a professor emeritus of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He is one of the most significant figures of American narratology (theory of narrative), being regarded as a prominent representative of its Structuralist or "classic" branch.
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