Seymour Chatman is an American film and literary critic, a professor emeritus of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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. He is one of the most significant figures of American narratology

Narratology

Narratology denotes both the theory and the study of narrative and narrative structure and the ways that these affect our perception. While in principle the word may refer to any systematic study of narrative, in practice its usage is rather more restricted. It is an anglicisation of French...

(theory of narrative), being regarded as a prominent representative of its Structuralist or "classic" branch.

Published works

Among his works that were translated into several languages are The Later Style of Henry James (1972), Story and Discourse. Narrative Structure in fiction and Film (1978), Michelangelo Antonioni, or, the Surface of the World (1986), Coming to Terms. The Rhetoric of Narrative in Fiction and Film (1990), and with Paul Duncan, Michelangelo Antonioni: The Complete Films (2004).

External links

• http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/faculty_bios/seymour_chatman.html