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Author: James Phelan, Peter J Rabinowitz
The 35 original essays in A Companion to Narrative Theory constitute the best available introduction to this vital and contested field of humanistic enquiry.
1 Histories of Narrative Theory (I): A Genealogy of Early Developments
2 Histories of Narrative Theory (II): From Structuralism to the Present
3 Ghosts and Monsters: On the (Im)Possibility of Narrating
the History of Narrative Theory
PART I New Light on Stubborn Problems
4 Resurrection of the Implied Author: Why Bother?
5 Reconceptualizing Unreliable Narration: Synthesizing
Cognitive and Rhetorical Approaches
6 Authorial Rhetoric, Narratorial (Un)Reliability,
Divergent Readings: Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata
7 Henry James and ‘‘Focalization,’’ or Why James Loves Gyp
8 What Narratology and Stylistics Can Do for Each Other
9 The Pragmatics of Narrative Fictionality
PART II Revisions and Innovations
10 Beyond the Poetics of Plot: Alternative Forms of Narrative
Progression and the Multiple Trajectories of Ulysses
11 They Shoot Tigers, Don’t They?: Path and Counterpoint
in The Long Goodbye
12 Spatial Poetics and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
13 The ‘‘I’’ of the Beholder: Equivocal Attachments and the
Limits of Structuralist Narratology
14 Neonarrative; or, How to Render the Unnarratable in
Realist Fiction and Contemporary Film
15 Self-consciousness as a Narrative Feature and Force:
Tellers vs. Informants in Generic Design
16 Effects of Sequence, Embedding, and Ekphrasis in Poe’s
‘‘The Oval Portrait’’
17 Mrs. Dalloway’s Progeny: The Hours as Second-degree Narrative
PART III Narrative Form and its Relationship to History, Politics, and Ethics
18 Genre, Repetition, Temporal Order: Some
Aspects of Biblical Narratology
19 Why Won’t Our Terms Stay Put? The Narrative
Communication Diagram Scrutinized and Historicized
20 Gender and History in Narrative Theory: The Problem of Retrospective
Distance in David Copperfield and Bleak House
21 Narrative Judgments and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative:
Ian McEwan’s Atonement
22 The Changing Faces of Mount Rushmore: Collective Portraiture and
Participatory National Heritage
23 The Trouble with Autobiography: Cautionary Notes
for Narrative Theorists
24 On a Postcolonial Narratology
25 Modernist Soundscapes and the Intelligent Ear:
An Approach to Narrative Through Auditory Perception
26 In Two Voices, or: Whose Life/Death/Story Is It, Anyway?
PART IV Beyond Literary Narrative
27 Narrative in and of the Law
28 Second Nature, Cinematic Narrative, the Historical
Subject, and Russian Ark
29 Narrativizing the End: Death and Opera
30 Music and/as Cine-Narrative or: Ceci n’est pas un leitmotif
31 Classical Instrumental Music and Narrative
32 ‘‘I’m Spartacus!’’
33 Shards of a History of Performance Art: Pollock
and Namuth Through a Glass, Darkly
Epilogue
34 Narrative and Digitality: Learning to Think With the Medium
35 The Future of All Narrative Futures
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