A Companion to Narrative Theory (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

A Companion to Narrative Theory......Page 5
Contents\r......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 19
Introduction: Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Narrative Theory......Page 21
Prologue......Page 37
1 Histories of Narrative Theory (I): A Genealogy of Early Developments......Page 39
2 Histories of Narrative Theory (II): From Structuralism to the Present......Page 56
3 Ghosts and Monsters: On the (Im)Possibility of Narrating\rthe History of Narrative Theory......Page 80
PART I New Light on Stubborn Problems......Page 93
4 Resurrection of the Implied Author: Why Bother?......Page 95
5 Reconceptualizing Unreliable Narration: Synthesizing\rCognitive and Rhetorical Approaches......Page 109
6 Authorial Rhetoric, Narratorial (Un)Reliability,\rDivergent Readings: Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata......Page 128
7 Henry James and ‘‘Focalization,’’ or Why James Loves Gyp......Page 144
8 What Narratology and Stylistics Can Do for Each Other......Page 156
9 The Pragmatics of Narrative Fictionality......Page 170
PART II Revisions and Innovations......Page 185
10 Beyond the Poetics of Plot: Alternative Forms of Narrative\rProgression and the Multiple Trajectories of Ulysses......Page 187
11 They Shoot Tigers, Don’t They?: Path and Counterpoint\rin The Long Goodbye......Page 201
12 Spatial Poetics and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things......Page 212
13 The ‘‘I’’ of the Beholder: Equivocal Attachments and the\rLimits of Structuralist Narratology......Page 226
14 Neonarrative; or, How to Render the Unnarratable in\rRealist Fiction and Contemporary Film......Page 240
15 Self-consciousness as a Narrative Feature and Force:\rTellers vs. Informants in Generic Design......Page 252
16 Effects of Sequence, Embedding, and Ekphrasis in Poe’s\r‘‘The Oval Portrait’’......Page 273
17 Mrs. Dalloway’s Progeny: The Hours as Second-degree Narrative......Page 289
PART III Narrative Form and its Relationship to History, Politics, and Ethics......Page 303
18 Genre, Repetition, Temporal Order: Some\rAspects of Biblical Narratology......Page 305
19 Why Won’t Our Terms Stay Put? The Narrative\rCommunication Diagram Scrutinized and Historicized......Page 319
20 Gender and History in Narrative Theory: The Problem of Retrospective\rDistance in David Copperfield and Bleak House......Page 332
21 Narrative Judgments and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative:\rIan McEwan’s Atonement......Page 342
22 The Changing Faces of Mount Rushmore: Collective Portraiture and\rParticipatory National Heritage......Page 357
23 The Trouble with Autobiography: Cautionary Notes\rfor Narrative Theorists......Page 376
24 On a Postcolonial Narratology......Page 392
25 Modernist Soundscapes and the Intelligent Ear:\rAn Approach to Narrative Through Auditory Perception......Page 402
26 In Two Voices, or: Whose Life/Death/Story Is It, Anyway?......Page 419
PART IV Beyond Literary Narrative......Page 433
27 Narrative in and of the Law......Page 435
28 Second Nature, Cinematic Narrative, the Historical\rSubject, and Russian Ark......Page 447
29 Narrativizing the End: Death and Opera......Page 461
30 Music and/as Cine-Narrative or: Ceci n’est pas un leitmotif......Page 471
31 Classical Instrumental Music and Narrative......Page 486
32 ‘‘I’m Spartacus!’’......Page 504
33 Shards of a History of Performance Art: Pollock\rand Namuth Through a Glass, Darkly......Page 519
Epilogue......Page 533
34 Narrative and Digitality: Learning to Think With the Medium......Page 535
35 The Future of All Narrative Futures......Page 549
Glossary......Page 562
Index......Page 572