David Herman
English 586
Narratology and Narrative Theory

List of Materials on Electronic Reserve
(Subject to Updates and Additions)


 

1.  Aristotle, PoeticsCritical Theory since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  Revised edition.  San Diego:  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.  49-66.

2.  Henry James, "The Art of Fiction."  Narrative/Theory.  Ed. David R. Richter.  White Plains, NY:  Longman, 1996.  42-56.

3.  Percy Lubbock, chapters V, XVII, and XVIII of The Craft of Fiction.  New York:  Viking Press, 1957.  Pp. 59-76, 251-74.

4.  Jerome Bruner, "The Narrative Construction of Reality." Critical Inquiry 18 (1991):  1-21.

5.  Gerald Prince, "Narratology."  The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism.  Vol. 8.  Ed. Raman Selden.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1995.  With  bibliography.  110-30, 421-25.

6.  David Lodge, "Analysis and Interpretation of the Realist Text." Poetics Today 1.4  (1980):  5-22.

7.  David Herman, "Existentialist Roots of Narrative Actants." Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature (forthcoming).  Author's Typescript.

8.  Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, "How the Model Neglects the Medium:  Linguistics, Language, and the Crisis of Narratology."  Journal of Narrative Technique 19.1  (1989):  157-66.

9.  William Labov, "The Transformation of Experience in Narrative Syntax."  Language in the Inner City.  Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972.  354- 96.

10.  Geoffrey N. Leech and Michael H. Short, chapters 5 and 6 of Style in Fiction:  A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose.  London:  Longman, 1981.   With bibliography.  150-208, 387-93.

11.  Marie-Laure Ryan, "The Modal Structure of Narrative Universes." Poetics Today 6.4  (1985):  717-55.

12.  Mary Galbraith, "Deictic Shift Theory and the Poetics of Involvement in Narrative."  Deixis in Narrative:  A Cognitive Science Perspective.  Eds. Judith F. Duchan, Gail  A. Bruder, and Lynne E. Hewitt.  Hillsdale, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995.  With  bibliography.  19-59, 487-505.

13.  Manfred Jahn, "Frames, Preferences, and the Reading of Third-Person Narratives:  Towards a Cognitive Narratology."  Poetics Today 18.4 (1997):  441-68.

14.  Susan S. Lanser, "Towards a Feminist Narratology."  Style 20.3 (1986):  341-63.

15.  Peter J. Rabinowitz, "Truth in Fiction:  A Reexamination of Audiences."  Narrative/Theory.  Ed. David Richter.  White Plains, NY:  Longman, 1996.  208- 226.

16.  James Phelan, "Functions of Character."  Narrative/Theory.  Ed. David Richter.  White Plains, NY:  Longman, 1996.  108-22.

17.  Andrew Gibson, "Introduction" and chapter 1 (with bibliography) of Towards a Postmodern Theory of Narrative.  Edinburgh:  Edinburgh University Press, 1996.   1-68, 279-94.

18.  Jacques Derrida, "Force and Signification."  Writing and Difference.  Trans. Alan Bass.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1978.  3-30.

19.  Espen Aarseth, chapters 1, 2, and 9 (with bibliography) of Cybertext:  Perspectives on Ergodic Literature.  Baltimore:  The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.  1- 57, 178-95.

20.  Janet. H. Murray, chapters 4, 5, and 6 (plus bibliography) of Hamlet on the Holodeck:  The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace.  New York:  The Free Press,  1997.  97-182, 291-97.