Seymour Chatman
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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.[1]
He is one of the most significant figures of American narratology (theory of narrative), regarded as a prominent representative of its structuralist branch.
Personal life
[edit]Seymour Chatman was married three times, to Evelyn (divorced in 1964), Sidsel (divorced circa 1970), and Barbara. He has three children, Emily Chatman Duffy, an artist, Jennifer Chatman, a professor, and Mariel Chatman Lassalle, a lawyer. He has four granddaughters, Ava, Sonya, Noemie, and Anais.
Published works
[edit]Chatman's work includes:[2]
- 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 (1985)
- 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
[edit]- ^ "Remembering Seymour Chatman, professor emeritus of rhetoric and film at UC Berkeley". Berkeleyside. 18 December 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
- ^ "Amazon.com: Seymour Chatman: Books". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
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