List of contributors

 

Aarseth, Espen

ergodic literature; multi-path narrative

Abbott, Porter

closure; diary; narration

Aczel , Richard

voice; horizon of expectations; polyphony

Alber, Jan

narrativisation; natural narratology

Alcorn, Marshall

psychoanalysis and narrative

Allen, Chadwick

radio narrative

Allrath, Gaby, and Marion Gymnich

gender studies

Ankersmit, Frank

contextualism (in historiography); Figura (Auerbach); hermeneutics; historicism; historiography; micro-storie; narrative explanation

Attardo, Salvatore

humour studies and narrative

Baetens, Jan

cinéroman; image and narrative

Bal, Mieke

interdisciplinary approaches to narrative; visual narrativity

Bamberg, Michael

            agency; master narrative; positioning

Banfield, Ann

            no-narrator theory; skaz; tense and narrative

Bauman, Richard

            anecdote; performance; tall tale

Beebee, Thomas O.

epistolary novel

Bell, Matthew 

performativity; queer theory

Bensmai, Reda

reality effect; readerly text; writerly text (Barthes); writerly text

Berthelot, François

fantastic, the; transgressive fictions

Bezuidenhout-Raath, Ilze

            advertisements

Bird, Elizabeth

            tabloid narrative

Booker, M. Keith

dystopian fiction; utopian and dystopian fiction

Briggs, Charles

ethnographic approaches to narrative

Brooks, Peter

            confessional narrative

Buchholz, Sabine, and Manfred Jahn

dramatic monologue; space in narrative

Cadden, Mike

children's stories (narratives written for children)

Carrard, Philippe

            annals; chronicle; sports broadcast

Cobley, Paul

            thriller

Cook-Gumperz, Jenny, and Amy Kyratzis

children's storytelling

Cornils, Anja

theology and narrative

Cortazzi, Martin

didactic narrative; education and narrative

Crossley, Michele

narrative psychology

Culler, Jonathan

logic of narrative

Dannenberg, Hilary 

counterfactual history; plot; plot types

short definition:  coincidence

Dardenne, Bob

journalism

Davis, Marc

            narrative intelligence

De Jong, Irene

ancient theories of narrative (Western); epic; in medias res

Diengott, Nilli

narratee

Duyfhuizen, Bernard

framed narrative; narrative transmission

Elias, Amy 

historiographic narratology

Elliott, Kamilla

adaptation

Emmott, Catherine

narrative comprehension

Erll, Astrid

cultural-studies approaches to narrative

Esrock , Ellen

visualisation

Ewert, Jeanne 

comics and graphic novel

Faris, Wendy

magical realism

Fludernik, Monika

composite novel; experientiality; hybridity; letters as narrative; naturalisation; speech representation; time in narrative

 Foster, Susan

dance and narrative

Frawley, William, and David Herman

narrative semantics

Fritsch, Esther

            gossip

Fritsch, Esther

slave narrative

Galster, Christin

hybrid genres

Garner, Lori

            oral-formulaic theory; ring-composition

Garuba, Harry

African narrative; oral cultures and narrative

Gavins, Joanna 

            mental mapping of narrative; scripts and schemata; text-world approach to narrative

Gearey, Adam

law and narrative

Georgakopoulou, Alexandra

sociolinguistic approaches to narrative; text-type approach to narrative

Gerrig, Richard

memory; psychological approaches to narrative

Gibbs, Raymond

intentionality

Goetsch, Paul

            orality

Goodrich, Peter 

apology; catachresis; legal fiction; narrative as argument

Gorman, David 

architext; fiction, theories of; paratext; truth

Grindon, Leger

genre theory in film studies

Grodal, Torben

evolution of narrative forms; film narrative; thought and consciousness representation (film)

Grusin, Richard

remediation

short definition:  repurposing

Gutenberg, Andrea 

            coming-out story; écriture féminine

Hämeen-Anttila, Virpi

Sanskrit narrative

Hanks, William 

deixis

Harpold, Terry

digital narrative

Haspel , Kathleen 

communication studies and narrative

 Heise, Ursula

eco-narratives

Herman, David

actant; action theory; atomic and molecular narratives; conflict; events and event-types; existent; genealogy; linguistic approaches to narrative; mytheme; narrative as cognitive instrument; storyworld; structuralist narratology

short definitions:  backstory; dramatic irony; episode; extradiegetic narrator; fabula; intradiegetic narrator; molecular narratives; Neo-Aristotelianism; parody; pastiche; reader address; Russian Formalism; schemata; sjuzhet

Herman, Luc

encyclopedic novel

Herman, Luc, and Bart Vervaeck

deconstructive approaches to narrative; postclassical narratology; poststructuralist approaches to narrative

Hogan, Patrick Colm

archetypal patterns; narrative universals

Hogan, Patrick Colm, and Lalita Pandit

ancient theories of narrative (non-Western)

Horatschek, Annegret

alterity

Humphrey, Richard

family chronicle; historical novel

Hutcheon, Linda

reflexivity

Hutcheon, Linda, and Michael Hutcheon

opera

Hydén, Lars-Christer

medicine and narrative

Ireland, Ken

temporal ordering

Jacobsen, David Schnasa

sermon

Jahn, Manfred

alteration; cognitive narratology; dream narrative; epiphany; focalization; Freytag's triangle; mediacy; narrative situations; quotation theory

short definitions:  anachrony; analepsis; attributive discourse; authorial narrative situation; autodiegetic narration; experiencing-I; figural narration; first-person narration; frequency; heterodiegetic narration; historical present; homodiegetic narration; hypertext and hypotext (Genette); hypodiegetic narrative; interior monologue; narrating-I; narrative speed; palimpsest; paralepsis and paralipsis; point of attack; prolepsis; prospective narration; psychonarration; reflector; retrospective narration; second-person narration; simultaneous narration; syllepsis; third-person narration; transfocalization and transvocalization; unreliable narration

Jannidis, Fotis

author

Jenkins, Henry

computer games and narrative

Johansen, Joergen Dines

semiotics

Johnstone, Barbara

discourse analysis (linguistics)

Jones, Sara Gwenllian

fantasy; serial form; slash fiction; television

short definition:  soap opera   

Kacandes, Irene

            address; trauma theory 

Kafalenos, Emma 

indeterminacy; photographs

Kasten, Madeleine

allegory

Kearns, Michael

codes for reading; genre theory in narrative studies

Keating, Patrick

            montage; point of view (cinematic); shot

Keunen, Bart

sociological approaches to literary narrative

Kindt, Tom

biography

Klarer, Mario 

            ekphrasis

Korte, Barbara 

travel narrative

Korthals Altes, Liesbeth

ethical turn; irony; roman à these; Tel Quel

Kozloff, Sarah

            voice-over narration

Kreiswirth, Martin

narrative turn in the humanities

Levinson, Jerrold

            soundtrack

Linde, Charlotte

institutional narrative; life story

short definition:  organisations and narrative

Loeschnigg, Martin

autobiography; summary and scene

Lohafer, Susan

short story

Lunenfeld, Peter

story arc

Mancing, Howard

            biological foundations of narrative; novel, the; picaresque novel; Quixotic novel

Margolin , Uri

             authentication; character; formalism; naming in narrative; person; reference

Matthews, Alastair

medieval narrative

Mayer, Sigrid

simple forms

 McCarthy, Maggie

            Bildungsroman; novella 

McGregor, William

Australian Aboriginal narrative; gesture

McHale, Brian 

dual-voice hypothesis; free indirect discourse; function (Jakobson); genre fiction; narrative in poetry; postmodern narrative; realeme; surfiction; verisimilitude

McHale, Brian, and Moshe Ron

Tel Aviv School of narrative poetics 

McMahan, Alison

animated film; simulation and narrative

Meister, Jan Chris Christoph

minimal narrative; narrative units; computational approaches to narrative

Mertz, Elizabeth, and Jonathan Yovel

courtroom narrative

Mey, Jacob

pragmatics

Michelson, Peter

pornographic narrative

Mickelsen, David

            spatial form

Miller, Dean A. 

hero

Mills, Linda

narrative therapy

Montfort, Nick

Artificial Intelligence and narrative; interactive fiction

Moraru, Christian

intertextuality; narrative versions; postmodern rewrites

Morrison, Linda

sociology and narrative

Motte, Warren

            Oulipo

Müller-Zettelmann, Eva

nursery rhyme

Neeman,  Harold

            fairy tale

Nelles, William

embedding; function (Propp); mise en abyme

short definition:  narrative levels

Newman, Michael

            mindscreen

Newman, Michael, and David Herman

scene (cinematic)

Nieragden, Goeran

            emic and etic

Niles, John (Jack)

            ballad

 Nilsen, Alleen Pace

adolescent narrative

Norrick, Neal

            conversational storytelling; joke

Nünning, Ansgar

commentary; historiographic metafiction; implied author; metannarative comment; reliability

O'Connor, Patricia

prison narrative

O'Donnell, Patrick

metafiction

O'Neill, Patrick

exposition; narrative structure

Palmer, Alan

philosophical novel; psychological novel; realist novel; stream of consciousness and interior monologue; thought and consciousness representation (literature)

Panier, Louis

            narrative transformation

Pflugmacher, Torsten

description 

Phelan, James

distance; narrative progression; rhetorical approaches to narrative

Phelan, James, and Wayne Booth

narrative techniques; narrator

Pier, John

chronotope; metalepsis; isotopy

Plotnitsky, Arkady

philosophy and narrative; science and narrative

Preston, Cathy Lynn

urban legend

Prince, Gerald 

            disnarrated, the; narrativity; point of view (literary); nouveau roman

Prust, Richard

            phenomenology of narrative

Pyrhšnen, Heta 

detective fiction; retardatory devices; suspense and surprise; thematic approaches to narrative; thematisation

Rabinowitz, Peter

audience; showing versus telling; speech act theory

Real, Josef Hermann

            satiric narrative

Restrepo, Luis F.

            testimonio

Richardson, Brian

anti-narrative; causality; denarration; narrative dynamics

Richter, David

Biblical narrative; Chicago school

Ritchie, Donald A.

oral history

Ritivoi, Andreea 

identity and narrative

Ronen, Ruth 

realism, theories of

Roque, Georges

graphic presentation as expressive device

Ryan, Marie-Laure

catharsis; dramatic situations; media and narrative; mode; narrative; narrative, games, and play; panfictionality; possible-worlds theory; story grammars; tellability; virtuality

short definitions:  grand récit; hagiography; hypertext; interactivity; multi-plot narrative; participatory narrative; point; riddle; secondary orality; trebling/triplication

Ryder, Mary Ellen

            romance novel

Saint-Gelais, Richard

            transfictionality

Schaeffer, Jean-Marie

immersion; mimesis

Schmid, Wolf

            defamiliarisation

Schneider, Ralf

emotion and narrative; reader constructs; reader-response theory; reception theory

short definitions:  concretisation; Constance school; implied reader

Schneider, Steven Jay

horror narrative

Schwartz, Daniel 

Holocaust narrative

Segal, Robert A.

myth: theoretical approaches

Shen, Dan

diegesis; mind-style; mood (Genette); narrating (Genette); story-discourse distinction

Shuman, Amy

folklore

Sidnell, Jack

communication in narrative

short definition:  addresser and addressee

Simanowski, Roberto

spectacle

Simpson, Paul

modality

Sinding, Michael

            foregrounding

Sommer, Roy 

drama and narrative

Spolsky, Ellen

gapping

Starck, Nigel

obituary

 Starke, Sue

romance

Steen, Gerard 

metonymy; metaphor; parable

Stein, Nancy, and Valerie Kissel

story schemata and causal structure

Sternberg, Claudia

            screenplay

Stevenson, Randall

modernist narrative

Stewart, Philip

roman ˆ clef

Stockwell, Peter

science fiction; surrealist narrative

Surkamp, Carola

perspective

Szalay, Edina

Gothic novel

Tate, Aaron

            fable; folktale; legend

Tatonetti, Lisa  

Native American narrative

Thomas, Bronwen

dialogue in the novel

Walker, Jill

blog (weblog); cyberpunk fiction

Walker, Steve

myth: thematic approaches

Warhol, Robyn 

feminist narratology; gaze; unnarratable, the 

Watson, Michael

Japanese narrative

White, Hayden

            emplotment; metahistory

Williams, Patrick

dialogism; heteroglossia; ideology and narrative; Marxist approaches to narrative; post-colonialism and narrative

Winnett, Susan

desire

Wodak, Ruth

discourse analysis (Foucault)

Wolf, Werner

intermediality; leitmotif; music and narrative; pictorial narrativity

Wong, Timothy

Chinese narrative

WŸrzbach, Natascha

motif

Young, Katharine

frame theory

Young, Kay, and Jeffrey L. Saver

            narrative disorders

Zipfel, Frank

            autofiction; nonfiction novel

Zwaan, Rolf

situation model