A Companion to Narrative Theory

Copyright © 2005 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to Narrative Theory

Editor(s): James Phelan, Peter J. Rabinowitz

Published Online: 26 NOV 2007

Print ISBN: 9781405114769

Online ISBN: 9780470996935

DOI: 10.1002/9780470996935

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The 35 original essays in A Companion to Narrative Theory constitute the best available introduction to this vital and contested field of humanistic enquiry.

  • Comprises 35 original essays written by leading figures in the field
  • Includes contributions from pioneers in the field such as Wayne C. Booth, Seymour Chatman, J. Hillis Miller and Gerald Prince
  • Represents all the major critical approaches to narrative and investigates and debates the relations between them
  • Considers narratives in different disciplines, such as law and medicine
  • Features analyses of a variety of media, including film, music, and painting
  • Designed to be of interest to specialists, yet accessible to readers with little prior knowledge of the field

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xvii)

    1. Introduction: Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Narrative Theory (pages 1–16)

      James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz

    1. Chapter 1

      Histories of Narrative Theory (I): A Genealogy of Early Developments (pages 19–35)

      David Herman

    1. Chapter 2

      Histories of Narrative Theory (II): From Structuralism to the Present (pages 36–59)

      Monika Fludernik

    1. Chapter 3

      Ghosts and Monsters: On the (Im)Possibility of Narrating the History of Narrative Theory (pages 60–72)

      Brian McHale

  6. Part I: New Light on Stubborn Problems

    1. Chapter 4

      Resurrection of the Implied Author: Why Bother? (pages 75–88)

      Wayne C. Booth

    2. Chapter 5

      Reconceptualizing Unreliable Narration: Synthesizing Cognitive and Rhetorical Approaches (pages 89–107)

      Ansgar F. Nünning

    3. Chapter 6

      Authorial Rhetoric, Narratorial (Un)Reliability, Divergent Readings: Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata (pages 108–123)

      Tamar Yacobi

    4. Chapter 7

      Henry James and “Focalization,” or Why James Loves Gyp (pages 124–135)

      J. Hillis Miller

    5. Chapter 8

      What Narratology and Stylistics Can Do for Each Other (pages 136–149)

      Dan Shen

    6. Chapter 9

      The Pragmatics of Narrative Fictionality (pages 150–164)

      Richard Walsh

  7. Part II: Revisions and Innovations

    1. Chapter 10

      Beyond the Poetics of Plot: Alternative Forms of Narrative Progression and the Multiple Trajectories of Ulysses (pages 167–180)

      Brian Richardson

    2. Chapter 11

      They Shoot Tigers, Don't They?: Path and Counterpoint in The Long Goodbye (pages 181–191)

      Peter J. Rabinowitz

    3. Chapter 12

      Spatial Poetics and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (pages 192–205)

      Susan Stanford Friedman

    4. Chapter 13

      The “I” of the Beholder: Equivocal Attachments and the Limits of Structuralist Narratology (pages 206–219)

      Susan S. Lanser

    5. Chapter 14

      Neonarrative; or, How to Render the Unnarratable in Realist Fiction and Contemporary Film (pages 220–231)

      Robyn R. Warhol

    6. Chapter 15

      Self-consciousness as a Narrative Feature and Force: Tellers vs. Informants in Generic Design (pages 232–252)

      Meir Sternberg

    7. Chapter 16

      Effects of Sequence, Embedding, and Ekphrasis in Poe's “The Oval Portrait” (pages 253–268)

      Emma Kafalenos

    8. Chapter 17

      Mrs. Dalloway's Progeny: The Hours as Second-degree Narrative (pages 269–281)

      Seymour Chatman

  8. Part III: Narrative Form and its Relationship to History, Politics, and Ethics

    1. Chapter 18

      Genre, Repetition, Temporal Order: Some Aspects of Biblical Narratology (pages 285–298)

      David H. Richter

    2. Chapter 19

      Why Won't Our Terms Stay Put? The Narrative Communication Diagram Scrutinized and Historicized (pages 299–311)

      Harry E. Shaw

    3. Chapter 20

      Gender and History in Narrative Theory: The Problem of Retrospective Distance in David Copperfield and Bleak House (pages 312–321)

      Alison Case

    4. Chapter 21

      Narrative Judgments and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative: Ian McEwan's Atonement (pages 322–336)

      James Phelan

    5. Chapter 22

      The Changing Faces of Mount Rushmore: Collective Portraiture and Participatory National Heritage (pages 337–355)

      Alison Booth

    6. Chapter 23

      The Trouble with Autobiography: Cautionary Notes for Narrative Theorists (pages 356–371)

      Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson

    7. Chapter 24

      On a Postcolonial Narratology (pages 372–381)

      Gerald Prince

    8. Chapter 25

      Modernist Soundscapes and the Intelligent Ear: An Approach to Narrative Through Auditory Perception (pages 382–398)

      Melba Cuddy-Keane

    9. Chapter 26

      In Two Voices, or: Whose Life/Death/Story Is It, Anyway? (pages 399–412)

      Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan

  9. Part IV: Beyond Literary Narrative

    1. Chapter 27

      Narrative in and of the Law (pages 415–426)

      Peter Brooks

    2. Chapter 28

      Second Nature, Cinematic Narrative, the Historical Subject, and Russian Ark (pages 427–440)

      Alan Nadel

    3. Chapter 29

      Narrativizing the End: Death and Opera (pages 441–450)

      Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon

    4. Chapter 30

      Music and/as Cine-Narrative or: Ceci n'est pas un leitmotif (pages 451–465)

      Royal S. Brown

    5. Chapter 31

      Classical Instrumental Music and Narrative (pages 466–483)

      Fred Everett Maus

    6. Chapter 32

      “I'm Spartacus!” (pages 484–498)

      Catherine Gunther Kodat

    7. Chapter 33

      Shards of a History of Performance Art: Pollock and Namuth Through a Glass, Darkly (pages 499–512)

      Peggy Phelan

    1. Chapter 34

      Narrative and Digitality: Learning to Think With the Medium (pages 515–528)

      Marie-Laure Ryan

    1. Chapter 35

      The Future of All Narrative Futures (pages 529–541)

      H. Porter Abbott

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      Glossary (pages 542–551)

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      Index (pages 552–571)

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