A companion to narrative theory / edited by James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : tradition and innovation in contemporary narrative theory / James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz -- 1. Histories of narrative theory (I) : a genealogy of early developments / David Herman -- 2. Histories of narrative theory (II) : from structuralism to the present / Monika Fludernik -- 3. Ghosts and monsters : on the (im)possibility of narrating the history of narrative theory / Brian McHale -- 4. Resurrection of the implied author : why bother? / Wayne C. Booth -- 5. Reconceptualizing unreliable narration : synthesizing cognitive and rhetorical approaches / Ansgar F. Nunning -- 6. Authorial rhetoric, narratorial (un)reliability, divergent readings : Tolstoy's Kreutzer sonata / Tamar Yacobi -- 7. Henry James and "focalization," or why James loves gyp / J. Hillis Miller -- 8. What narratology and stylistics can do for each other / Dan Shen -- 9. The pragmatics of narrative fictionality / Richard Walsh -- 10. Beyond the poetics of plot : alternative forms of narrative progression and the multiple trajectories of Ulysses / Brian Richardson -- 11. They shoot tigers, don't they? : path and counterpoint in the long goodbye / Peter J. Rabinowitz -- 12. Spatial poetics and Arundhati Roy's The God of small things / Susan Stanford Friedman -- 13. The "I" of the beholder : equivocal attachments and the limits of structuralist narratology / Susan S. Lanser -- 14. Neonarrative; or, how to render the unnarratable in realist fiction and contemporary film / Robyn R. Warhol -- 15. Self-consciousness as a narrative feature and force : tellers vs. informants in generic design / Meir Sternberg -- 16. Effects of sequence, embedding, and ekphrasis in Poe's "The oval portrait" / Emma Kafalenos -- 17. Mrs. Dalloway's progeny : The hours as second-degree narrative / Seymour Chatman -- 18. Genre, repetition, temporal order : some aspects of biblical narratology / David H. Richter -- 19. Why won't our terms stay put? : the narrative communication diagram scrutinized and historicized / Harry E. Shaw -- 20. Gender and history in narrative theory : the problem of retrospective distance in David Copperfield and Bleak house / Alison Case -- 21. Narrative judgments and the rhetorical theory of narrative : Ian McEwan's Atonement / James Phelan -- 22. The changing faces of Mount Rushmore : collective portraiture and participatory national heritage / Alison Booth -- 23. The trouble with autobiography : cautionary notes for narrative theorists / Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson -- 24. On a postcolonial narratology / Gerald Prince -- 25. Modernist soundscapes and the intelligent ear : an approach to narrative through auditory perception / Melba Cuddy-Keane -- 26. In two voices, or : whose life/death/story is it, anyway? / Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan -- 27. Narrative in and of the law / Peter Brooks -- 28. Second nature, cinematic narrative, the historical subject, and Russian Ark / Alan Nadel -- 29. Narrativizing the end : death and opera / Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon -- 30. Music and/as cine-narrative or : Ceci n'est pas un leitmotif / Royal S. Brown -- 31. Classical instrumental music and narrative / Fred Everett Maus -- 32. "I'm Spartacus!" / Catherine Gunther Kodat -- 33. Shards of a history of performance art : Pollock and Namuth through a glass, darkly / Peggy Phelan -- 34. Narrative and digitality : learning to think with the medium / Marie-Laure Ryan -- 35. The future of all narrative futures / H. Porter Abbott.

"The 35 original essays in A Companion to Narrative Theory constitute the best available introduction to this vital and contested field of humanistic enquiry. The essays represent all the major critical approaches to narrative - narratological, rhetorical, feminist, post-structuralist, historicist - and investigate and debate the relations among them. In addition, they stretch the boundaries of the field by considering narratives in different disciplines, such as law and medicine, and in a variety of media, including film, music, and painting."--BOOK JACKET.

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