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Politics in Narrative: a Study of Contemporary Narratological Treatises

Kai Yan

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This book reviews important achievements since the 20th century from the perspective of narrative politics. The book is divided into four series, each series consists of several intrinsically related papers. The first volume is dedicated to a schematic review of the academic thoughts of major scholars in contemporary narrative politics, mainly scanning the achievements of important scholars in structural narratology, Western Marxism, Bakhtin and post-classical narratology. The second to fourth volumes respectively provide an in-depth reading and review of the representative works of important narrative theorists such as Propp, Greimas, Todorov, Lukács, Jameson, and Bakhtin. Particular emphasis is placed on the representative works of Jameson and Bakhtin, and the main aspects of their narrative politics and novel politics are studied and analyzed to demonstrate the insights, value, and enlightenment of their achievements, while also revealing the difficulties and problems existing in their theories, and providing the author's thoughts on this. The author of this book has been studying narrative culture and narrative politics for a long time, has his own in-depth thinking on relevant issues, and has also formed his own independent opinions. Therefore, this book is not only an objective review of research objects, but also full of inherent reflection and dialogue.