Seymour Chatman

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Name Seymour Chatman

Education University of Michigan (1956) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books Story and discourse, Coming to Terms: The Rhetoric, Antonioni - or - The Surface o, A theory of meter, The later style of Henry Ja Similar People Umberto Eco, Jean‑Marie Klinkenberg, Brian Attebery

Seymour Chatman (August 30, 1928 - November 4, 2015) was an American film and literary critic and professor emeritus of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.

Seymour Chatman Remembering Seymour Chatman professor emeritus of rhetoric and film

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.

Published works

Chatman's work includes:

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)

Reading Narrative Fiction (1993)

Michelangelo Antonioni: The Complete Films (2004) with Paul Duncan

References

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