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Chatman, Seymour, 1928-2015

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Personal name headingChatman, Seymour, 1928-2015
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Variant(s)Chatman, Seymour Benjamin, 1928-
Birth date1928
Death date2015-11-04
Found inHis Structural and lexical distributions of function words with substantives ... 1956.
University of California Academic Senate, viewed Jan. 19, 2023 (Seymour Chatman died at his home in Berkeley November 4, 2015, at the age of 87. An internationally acclaimed literary critic and narratologist, he introduced and refined many of the basic terms used to describe narrative. In 2012, the International Society for the Study of Narrative conferred on Seymour Chatman a Lifetime Achievement Award for the "foundational contributions his work has made to the discipline of narrative theory," citing particularly the "the brilliance and impact" of his 1978 book, Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film)
   <https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/inmemoriam/html/SeymourChatman.html>