Frontiers of Narrative

A Book Series Published by the University of Nebraska Press

Context for the series

The Frontiers of Narrative book series aims to be a focal point for research on narrative practices across a variety of settings and media, including print literature, comics and graphic narratives, digital storytelling, everyday interaction, medical discourse, historiography, and cinema. Highlighting the role of storytelling in multiple contexts and types of activity, titles published in the series also underscore the opportunities and challenges associated with the study of narrative in all of its many guises.

Books published in the series engage in a sustained, rigorous inquiry into the nature and scope of narrative, whatever the corpus of stories being examined or the methods used to examine that corpus.

Works published and forthcoming in the series 

• Lars Bernaerts, Dirk De Geest, Luc Herman, and Bart Vervaeck, eds., Stories and Minds: Cognitive Approaches to Literary Narrative (forthcoming)
• Bronwen Thomas, Fictional Dialogue: Speech and Conversation in the Modern and Postmodern Novel (2012)
• Daniel Punday, Writing at the Limit: The Novel in the New Media Ecology (2012)
• Ruth Page and Bronwen Thomas, eds., New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age (2011)
• Patrick Colm Hogan, Affective Narratology: The Emotional Structure of Stories (2011)
• David Herman, ed., The Emergence of Mind: Representations of Consciousness in Narrative Discourse in English (2011)
• Michael Austin, Useful Fictions: Evolution, Anxiety, and the Origins of Literature (2011)
• Mike Cadden, ed., Telling Children’s Stories: Narrative Theory and Children’s Literature (2011)
• Inderjeet Mani, The Imagined Moment: Time, Narrative, and Computation (2010)
• Brian Richardson, ed., Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices (2009)
• Hilary Dannenberg, Coincidence and Counterfactuality: Plotting Time and Space in Narrative Fiction (2008)
• Jarmila Mildorf, Storying Domestic Violence:  Constructions and Stereotypes of Abuse in the Discourse of General Practitioners (2007)
• Luc Herman and Bart Vervaeck, Handbook of Narrative Analysis; English translation of Vertelduivels: Handboek verhaalanalyse (2005)
• Marie-Laure Ryan, ed., Narrative across Media: The Languages of Storytelling (2004)
• Alan Palmer, Fictional Minds (2004)
• Elaine Jahner, Spaces of the Mind: Narrative and Community in the American West (2004)
• David Herman, Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative (2002)
• Irene Kacandes, Talk Fiction: Literature and the Talk Explosion (2001)
• Marie-Laure Ryan and Jan-Noël Thon, Storyworlds across Media: Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology (under contract)
  
• Erin James, The Storyworld Accord: Ecocriticism and Postcolonial Narratives (under contract)
  
• Anna Botta, Open Encyclopedias: Narrative Tactics and Postmodern Narrative (under contract)
• Rochelle Tobias, Pseudo-Memoirs: Life and Literature in the Twentieth Century (under contract)

Contact information

For more information about the series, please contact the series editor:

David Herman
Department of English
Ohio State University
Denney Hall
164 West 17th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1370
USA

phone:  + 1 614 292 6123
fax:  + 1 614 292 7816
email: herman.145[at]osu.edu
homepage:  http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/herman145/