A Companion To Narrative Theory

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

James Phelan is Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is the editor of the journal Narrative and the author of several books in narrative theory, the most recent of which are Living to Tell About It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration (2005) and Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative (2007).

Peter J. Rabinowitz is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College. His previous publications include Before Reading (1987) and Authorizing Readers (coauthored with Michael Smith, 1998). He is also a music critic and serves as a contributing editor of Fanfare.

Phelan and Rabinowitz are coeditors of the Ohio State University Press series on the Theory and Interpretation of Narrative, which now has more than twenty-five titles to its credit.

Notes on Contributors

x

Acknowledgments

xvii

Introduction: Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Narrative Theory

1

(18)

James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz

Prologue

1 Histories of Narrative Theory (I): A Genealogy of Early Developments

19

(17)

David Herman

2 Histories of Narrative Theory (II): From Structuralism to the Present

36

(24)

Monika Fludernik

3 Ghosts and Monsters: On the (Im)Possibility of Narrating the History of Narrative Theory

60

(105)

Brian McHale

PART I New Light on Stubborn Problems

73

(92)

4 Resurrection of the Implied Author: Why Bother?

75

(14)

Wayne C. Booth

5 Reconceptualizing Unreliable Narration: Synthesizing Cognitive and Rhetorical Approaches

89

(19)

Ansgar F. Nünning

6 Authorial Rhetoric, Narratorial (Un)Reliability, Divergent Readings: Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata

108

(16)

Tamar Yacobi

7 Henry James and "Focalization," or Why James Loves Gyp

124

(12)

J. Hillis Miller

8 What Narratology and Stylistics Can Do for Each Other

136

(14)

Dan Shen

9 The Pragmatics of Narrative Fictionality

150

(15)

Richard Walsh

PART II Revisions and Innovations

165

(118)

10 Beyond the Poetics of Plot: Alternative Forms of Narrative Progression and the Multiple Trajectories of Ulysses

167

(14)

Brian Richardson

11 They Shoot Tigers, Don't They?: Path and Counterpoint in The Long Goodbye

181

(11)

Peter J. Rabinowitz

12 Spatial Poetics and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

192

(14)

Susan Stanford Friedman

13 The "I" of the Beholder: Equivocal Attachments and the Limits of Structuralist Narratology

206

(14)

Susan S. Lanser

14 Neonarrative; or, How to Render the Unnarratable in Realist Fiction and Contemporary Film

220

(12)

Robyn R. Warhol

15 Self-consciousness as a Narrative Feature and Force: Tellers vs. Informants in Generic Design

232

(21)

Meir Sternberg

16 Effects of Sequence, Embedding, and Ekphrasis in Poe's "The Oval Portrait"

253

(16)

Emma Kafalenos

17 Mrs. Dalloway's Progeny: The Hours as Second-degree Narrative

269

(14)

Seymour Chatman

PART III Narrative Form and its Relationship to History, Politics, and Ethics

283

(130)

18 Genre, Repetition, Temporal Order: Some Aspects of Biblical Narratology

285

(14)

David H. Richter

19 Why Won't Our Terms Stay Put? The Narrative Communication Diagram Scrutinized and Historicized

299

(13)

Harry E. Shaw

20 Gender and History in Narrative Theory: The Problem of Retrospective Distance in David Copperfield and Bleak House

312

(10)

Alison Case

21 Narrative Judgments and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative: Ian McEwan's Atonement

322

(15)

James Phelan

22 The Changing Faces of Mount Rushmore: Collective Portraiture and Participatory National Heritage

337

(19)

Alison Booth

23 The Trouble with Autobiography: Cautionary Notes for Narrative Theorists

356

(16)

Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson

24 On a Postcolonial Narratology

372

(10)

Gerald Prince

25 Modernist Soundscapes and the Intelligent Ear: An Approach to Narrative Through Auditory Perception

382

(17)

Melba Cuddy-Keane

26 In Two Voices, or: Whose Life/Death/Story Is It, Anyway?

399

(14)

Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan

PART IV Beyond Literary Narrative

413

(102)

27 Narrative in and of the Law

415

(12)

Peter Brooks

28 Second Nature, Cinematic Narrative, the Historical Subject, and Russian Ark

427

(14)

Alan Nadel

29 Narrativizing the End: Death and Opera

441

(10)

Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon

30 Music and/as Cine-Narrative or: Ceci n'est pas un leitmotif

451

(15)

Royal S. Brown

31 Classical Instrumental Music and Narrative

466

(18)

Fred Everett Maus

32 "I'm Spartacus!"

484

(15)

Catherine Gunther Kodat

33 Shards of a History of Performance Art: Pollock and Namuth Through a Glass, Darkly

499

(16)

Peggy Phelan

Epilogue

34 Narrative and Digitality: Learning to Think With the Medium

515

(14)

Marie-Laure Ryan

35 The Future of All Narrative Futures

529

(13)

H. Porter Abbott

Glossary

542

(10)

Index

552

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