Types of Prose Narratives

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Author

Fansler, Harriott Ely, 1887-1945

Title

Types of Prose Narratives: A Text-Book for the Story Writer

Credits

MFR, Eleni Christofaki and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

English prose literature

Category

Text

eBook-No.

64210

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64210

Release Date

January 4, 2021

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber's note.
2. 2.TYPES OF PROSE NARRATIVES
3. 3.PREFACE — TABLE OF CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF STORIES — NARRATIVES OF FICTITIOUS EVENTS — Myths — Legends — Fairy Tales — Nursery Tales — Fables — Parables — Allegories — Tales of Mere Wonder — Imaginary Voyages — Tale of Scientific Discovery and Mechanical Invention — Detective Story and Tale of Mere Plot — Tales of More-or-Less Probable Adventure — Society Stories — Humorous Stories — Occasional Stories — Moral Story — Pedagogical Narratives — Stories of Present-Day Realism — Psychological Weird Tales — Stories That Emphasize Character and Environment — Stories That Emphasize Character and Events — NARRATIVES OF ACTUAL EVENTS — Incidents — Anecdotes — Eye-Witness Accounts — Tales of Actual Adventures — Travellers' Sketches — Journals and Diaries — Autobiography and Memoirs — Biographies — Annals — Chronicles
5. 5.INTRODUCTION
6. 6.CHAPTER I THE PRIMITIVE-RELIGIOUS GROUP — I. The Myth — A List of Deities — Egyptian Gods — Hindoo Gods — Russian Gods — Finnish Mythology (derived from Kalevala) — Norse Deities — Filipino Deities — The World's Creation and the Birth of Wainamoinen — TRIBAL MYTH Origin of the Moon — TRIBAL MYTH The First Cocoanut Tree and the Creation of Man — ORIGINAL MYTH The Lotus — II. The Legend — Kenach's Little Woman — A Legend of Gapan — A Legend of the Incas — The Place of the Red Grass: or, The Invasion of Pangasinan by the Ilocanos — III. The Fairy Tale — PARTIAL LIST OF FAIRIES, GOOD AND BAD, OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES: — The Boggart — Cafre and the Fisherman's Wife — The Friendship of an Aswang and a Duende — A Tianac Frightens Juan — The Black Cloth of the Calumpang Tree — IV. The Nursery Saga or Märchen — Princess Helena the Fair — Juan the Guesser — The Shepherd Who Became King — CHAPTER II THE SYMBOLIC-DIDACTIC GROUP — I. The Fable — RATIONAL, WITH THE ACTORS GODS AND MEN Jupiter and the Countryman — NON-RATIONAL—INANIMATE OBJECT The Drop of Water — POLITICAL SATIRE The Grandee at the Judgment-Seat — BEAST FABLES The Lion and the Old Hare — The Fox and the Crab — RATIONAL, WITH THE ACTORS MEN The Fool Who Sells Wisdom — ALMOST A PARABLE The Archer and the Trumpeter — The Courtship of Sir Butterfly — The Hat and the Shoes — The Crocodile and the Peahen — The Old Man, His Son, and His Grandson — II. Parable — The Three Questions — A Master and His Servant — The Parable of the Beggar and the Givers — III. Allegory — The Artist — The House of Judgment — The Chain That Binds — The Love Which Surpassed All Other Loves — CHAPTER III THE INGENIOUS-ASTONISHING GROUP — I. The Tale of Mere Wonder — Story of the City of Brass — The Magic Ring, the Bird, and the Basket — II. The Imaginary Voyage with a Satiric or Instructive Purpose — Mellonta Tauta — Busyong's Trip to Jupiter — III. Tale of Scientific Discovery and Mechanical Invention — The Curious Vehicle — The Spyglass of the Past — Up a Water-Spout — IV. The Detective Story and Other Tales of Pure Plot — Thou Art the Man — The Picture of Lhasa — CHAPTER IV THE ENTERTAINING GROUP — I. The Tale of Probable Adventure — A Fight with a Bear — The Secret of the Jade Tlaloc — II. The Society Story — The Fur Coat — The Lady in Pink — III. The Humorous Story — The Expatriation of Jonathan Taintor — Kileto and the Physician — A FILIPINO FABLEAU [6] The Lame Man and the Deaf Family — IV. The Occasional Story — The Lost Child — The Peace of Yesterdays — A Christmas Legend — CHAPTER V THE INSTRUCTIVE GROUP — I. The Moral Story — Jeannot and Colin — II. The Pedagogical Narrative — Gertrude's Method of Instruction — Lawin-Lawinan — III. The Story of Present Day Realism — The Piece of String — A Social Error — The Lot of the Poor — Filipino Fear. — CHAPTER VI THE ARTISTIC GROUP: THE REAL SHORT-STORY — I. The Psychological Weird Tale — The Signal-Man — "Like a Thief in the Night" — II. The Story That Emphasizes Character and Environment. — The Story of Muhammad Din — The Fetters — When Terry "Quit" — Nora Titay and Chiquito — III. The Story That Emphasizes Character and Events — The Necklace — Andong — CHAPTER VII PARTICULAR ACCOUNTS — I. The Incident — A Near Tragedy — Birds Divulge Army Secrets — An Incident Related In a Letter — A Hero Dead — My First Day at School — The Guinatan Prize — II. The Anecdote — Coleridge's Retort — An Inevitable Misfortune — A Point Needing to Be Settled — Patience — Preaching and Practice — Johnson's Dictionary — The Boy Kipling — Sir Godfrey Kneller — The Capitan Municipal and the Jokers — An Instance of Bamboo Spanish — Mr. Taft's Mistake — III. The Eye-Witness Account — Story of the Revolution in the Portuguese Capital — A Contrast — IV. The Tale of Actual Adventure — The Bear-Hunt — Saladin and I Fight an Alupong — I Get Two Beatings — The Fall of Juan — A Narrow Escape from a Wild Carabao — V. The Traveler's Sketch — "On the Way to Talavera" — "Smyrna: First Glimpses of the East" — A Trip from Currimao to Laoag — CHAPTER VIII PERSONAL ACCOUNTS — I. Journal and Diary — Extracts from Diary of Samuel Pepys — A Diary of Four Days — "Something Doing" — II. Autobiography and Memoirs — The Life of David Hume, Esq., Written by Himself — Autobiography — What I Remember of the Coming of the Americans — III. Biography — Outline for a Life — Queen Christina — Joan Luna's Life — Elizabeth Glade — Biography of a Traitor — CHAPTER IX IMPERSONAL ACCOUNTS — I. Annals — The State of England in Stephen's Reign — Annals of the Town of Mangaldan, 1879-1882 — Annals of Pagsanjan — II. Chronicles — CHRONICLE Rivalry Between Two Towns — A Short History of Ilagan — A TRUE RELATION Some Incidents of the Rebellion of 1898 — BIBLIOGRAPHY — LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS — GENERAL REFERENCE WORKS ON THE HISTORY OF FICTION — CHAPTER I. PRIMITIVE RELIGIOUS GROUP — Myth — Legend and Saga — Fairy Tale and Nursery Saga — CHAPTER II. SYMBOLIC-DIDACTIC GROUP — Fable — Parable — Allegory — CHAPTER III. INGENIOUS-ASTONISHING GROUP — Tale of Mere Wonder — Imaginary Voyage With a Satiric or Instructive Purpose — Tale of Scientific Discovery and of Mechanical Invention — The Detective Story and Other Tales of Mere Plot — CHAPTER IV. THE ENTERTAINING GROUP — Tale of Probable Adventure — The Society Story — The Humorous Story — The Occasional Story — CHAPTER V. THE INSTRUCTIVE GROUP — The Moral Story — The Pedagogical Commentary and Story — The Story of Present Day Realism — CHAPTER VI. THE SHORT STORY — Collections of Short Stories — The Psychological Weird Tale — Miscellaneous Short-Story Writers of Europe and America — CHAPTER VII — Incident — Anecdote — Eye-Witness Account — Tale of Actual Adventure — The Traveler's Sketch — CHAPTER VIII — Journal and Diary — Autobiography and Memoirs — Biography — CHAPTER IX — Notable Histories — Annals — Chronicles and True Relations — INDEX — FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber's Note — Corrections

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