TY - BOOK AU - Cobley,Paul TI - Narrative T2 - The new critical idiom SN - 9780415834438 (hbk.) : U1 - 808'.036 23 PY - 2013/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Literature KW - eflch KW - ukslc N1 - Previous edition: 2001; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - Human beings have constantly told stories, presented events and placed the world into narrative form. This activity suggests a very basic way of looking at the world, yet, this book argues, even the most seemingly simple of stories is embedded in a complex network of relations. Paul Cobley traces these relations, considering the ways in which humans have employed narrative over the centuries to 're-present' time, space and identity ER -