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Authored Books, Edited Volumes, Special Journal Issues

Published and forthcoming:

1. Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates. Co-authored by David Herman, James Phelan, Peter J. Rabinowitz, Brian Richardson, and Robyn Warhol. Columbus: Ohio State University Press (forthcoming).
   
2. Graphic Narratives and Narrative Theory. A special issue of SubStance [40.1 (2011)], co-guest edited with Jared Gardner.
   
3. The Emergence of Mind: Representations of Consciousness in Narrative Discourse in English. Frontiers of Narrative Book Series. Ed. David Herman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011.
   
4. Muriel Spark: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives. Ed. David Herman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
5. Teaching Narrative Theory. Eds. David Herman, Brian McHale, and James Phelan. Options for Teaching Book Series. New York: Modern Language Association, 2010.
6. Basic Elements of Narrative. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
7. Guest-editor of Modern Fiction Studies 54.3 (Fall 2008); special issue devoted to the work of Muriel Spark.
8. The Cambridge Companion to Narrative. Ed. David Herman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Chinese translation (by Shang Biwu) forthcoming from East China Normal University Press.
9. Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Eds. David Herman, Manfred Jahn, and Marie-Laure Ryan. London: Routledge, 2005. Paperback edition published in 2007.
10. Přirozený jazyk vyprávění [Narration in Natural Language]. Edice Theoretica Book Series. Brno-Prague: Czech Academy of Sciences, 2005.
11. Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences. Ed. David Herman. Stanford, CA: Publications of the Center for the Study of Language and Information (distributed by the University of Chicago Press), 2003.
12. Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative. In the Frontiers of Narrative book series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Paperback edition published in April, 2004. Co-winner of the 2004 Perkins Prize (“most significant contribution to narrative studies”).
13. Guest-editor of Modern Fiction Studies 47.3 (Fall 2001); special issue devoted to the work of philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch.
14. Narratologies: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis. Ed. David Herman. In the Theory and Interpretation of Narrative Series.  Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. Chinese translation (by Ma Hailiang) published in 2002 by Beijing University Press (Weiming Translation Library).
15. Universal Grammar and Narrative Form. In Sound and Meaning: The Roman Jakobson Series in Linguistics and Poetics. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.
    

In progress:

• Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind
  

• Zoonarratology: Narrative Pathways to Nonhuman Worlds
  

Articles, Book Chapters, Review-Essays

Under review or in preparation:

• "Toward a Zoonarratology: Storytelling and Species Difference in Animal Comics." Book chapter under review.
  
• "Approaches to Narrative Worldmaking.” Book chapter in preparation.

Forthcoming:

• "Narrative and Mind: Directions for Inquiry." Stories and Minds: Cognitive Approaches to Literary Narrative. Eds. Lars Bernaerts, Dirk De Geest, Luc Herman, and Bart Vervaeck (forthcoming).
• "Editor's Column: Transmedial Narratology and Transdisciplinarity." Storyworlds 4 (2012).
  

2012

• "Formal Models in Narrative Analysis." Circles Disturbed: The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative. Eds. Apostolos Doxiadis and Barry Mazur. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. 447-80.
  

2011

• "Pathways to Narrative Theory." Narrative Theories and Poetics: 5 Questions. Eds. Peer F. Bundgaard, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Frederik Stjernfelt. Copenhagen: Automatic Press/VIP, 2011. 73-83.
  
• Salway, Andrew, and David Herman. “Digitized Corpora as Theory-Building Resource: New Methods for Narrative Inquiry.” New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age. Eds. Ruth Page and Bronwen Thomas. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. 120-37.
• "Post-Cartesian Approaches to Narrative and Mind: A Response to Alan Palmer's Target Essay on 'Social Minds.'" Style 45.2 (2011): 265-71.
  
• "Narrative Worldmaking across Media and Disciplines." American Council of Learned Societies, "Focus on Research" Series: <http://www.acls.org/news/5-24-11/>
  
• "Storyworld/Umwelt: Nonhuman Experiences in Graphic Narratives." SubStance 40.1 (2011): 156-81. Special issue on Graphic Narratives and Narrative Theory, co-guest edited by Jared Gardner and David Herman.
• "Graphic Narratives and Narrative Theory: Introduction." Co-authored with Jared Gardner. SubStance 40.1 (2011): 3-13. Special issue on Graphic Narratives and Narrative Theory.
• "Editor's Column: Principles and Practices of Narrative Worldmaking." Storyworlds 3 (2011): vii-x.
  
• "Introduction." The Emergence of Mind: Representations of Consciousness in Narrative Discourse in English. Ed. David Herman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. 1-40.
  
• “1880-1945: Re-minding Modernism.” The Emergence of Mind: Representations of Consciousness in Narrative Discourse in English. Ed. David Herman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. 243-72.
• "Narrative Worldmaking in Graphic Life Writing." Graphic Subjects: Critical Essays on Autobiography and the Graphic Novel. Ed. Michael Chaney. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. 231-43.
• "Linguistics" and "Structuralism, Poststructuralism." The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel. Eds. Peter Logan, George Olakunle, Susan Hegeman, and Efraín Kristal. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Volume 1, 486-90; volume 2, 805-8.
  

2010

• "Teaching Time, Space, and Narrative Worlds.”  Teaching Narrative Theory. Eds. David Herman, Brian McHale, and James Phelan. New York: Modern Language Association, 2010. 123-36.
• Herman, David, Brian McHale, and James Phelan. "Introduction." Teaching Narrative Theory. Eds. David Herman, Brian McHale, and James Phelan. New York: Modern Language Association, 2010. 1-15.
• "Editor's Column: Exploring Storyworlds across Media and Disciplines." Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies 2 (2010): vii-ix.
• "Directions in Cognitive Narratology: Triangulating Stories, Media, and the Mind." Postclassical Narratology: Approaches and Analyses. Eds. Jan Alber and Monika Fludernik. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010. 137-62.
  
• "Multimodal Storytelling and Identity Construction in Graphic Narratives." Telling Stories: Language, Narrative, and Social Life. Eds. Deborah Schiffrin, Anna de Fina, and Anastasia Nylund. Georgetown: Georgetown University Press, 2010. 195-208.
• "Introduction." Muriel Spark: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives. Ed. David Herman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. 1-18.
• "Stories, Media, and the Mind: Narrative Worldmaking through Word and Image." Foreign Literature Studies 4 (2010): 42-50.
  
• “Narrative Theory after the Second Cognitive Revolution.” Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies. Ed Lisa Zunshine. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. 155-75.
  
• “Narrative, Grammar and” and "Narratology." The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Ed. Patrick Colm Hogan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 536-538; 547-52.
  
• “Word-Image/Utterance-Gesture: Case Studies in Multimodal Storytelling.” New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality. Ed. Ruth Page. London: Routledge, 2010. 78-98.
  
• Herman, David, and Ruth Page. “18 Questions for the Study of Narrative and Multimodality.” New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality. Ed. Ruth Page. London: Routledge, 2010. 217-20.
  

2009

• "Storied Minds: Narrative Scaffolding for Folk Psychology." Journal of Consciousness Studies (Special Issue on "Narrative and Folk Psychology") 16.6-8 (2009): 40-68. Reprinted in the associated volume on Narrative and Folk Psychology. Ed. Daniel D. Hutto. Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic, 2009.
  
• "Narrative Ways of Worldmaking." Narratology in the Age of Cross-Disciplinary Narrative Research. Eds. Sandra Heinen and Roy Sommer. Berlin: de Gruyter. 71-87.
  
• "Editor's Column: The Scope and Aims of Storyworlds." Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies 1 (2009): vii-x.
• “Cognitive Narratology.” Handbook of Narratology. Eds. Peter Hühn, John Pier, Wolf Schmid, Jörg Schönert. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009. 30-43.
  
• "Narrative and the Minds of Others." Style 42.4 (2008 [published in 2009]): 504-16.
  
• "Beyond Voice and Vision: Cognitive Grammar and Focalization Theory." Point of View, Perspective, Focalization: Modeling Mediacy. Eds. Peter Hühn, Wolf Schmid, and Jörg Schönert. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009. 119-42.
• "Cognitive Approaches to Narrative Analysis." Cognitive Poetics: Goals, Gains, and Gaps. Eds. Geert Brône and Jeroen Vandaele. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009. 79-118.

2008

• "Ethnolinguistic Identity and Social Cognition: Language Prejudice as Hermeneutic Pathology." Sign Systems Studies 35.1/2 (2007 [published in 2008]): 217-29.
• "'A Salutary Scar': Muriel Spark's Desegregated Art in the Twenty-first Century." Introduction to Modern Fiction Studies 54.3 (Fall 2008): 473-86. [Special issue on Muriel Spark, ed. David Herman.]
  
• “Description, Narrative, and Explanation: Text-type Categories and the Cognitive Foundations of Discourse Competence.” Poetics Today 29.3 (2008): 437-72.
  
• “Narrative Theory and the Intentional Stance." Partial Answers 6.2 (2008): 233-60.

2007

• "Introduction to Marina Lambrou's 'Oral Accounts of Personal Experiences.'" Contemporary Stylistics. Eds. Peter Stockwell and Marina Lambrou. London: Continuum, 2007. 195-96.
  
• “Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind: Cognitive Narratology, Discursive Psychology, and Narratives in Face-to-Face Interaction.” Narrative 15.3 (2007): 306-334.
• Herman, David, and Joshua Steskal. “Emotion Discourse as Design Heuristic: Creating Emotional Intelligence for Virtual Narrative Agents.” Intelligent Narrative Technologies: Papers from the 2007 AAAI Fall Symposium. Technical Report FS-07-05. Eds. Brian Magerko and Mark Riedl. Menlo Park, CA: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2007. 45-48.
• Herman, David, and Susan Moss. “Plant Names and Folk Taxonomies: Frameworks for Ethnosemiotic Inquiry.” Semiotica 167-1/4 (2007): 1-11.
• “Introduction.” The Cambridge Companion to Narrative. Ed. David Herman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 3-21.
• “Cognition, Emotion, and Consciousness.” The Cambridge Companion to Narrative. Ed. David Herman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 245-59.

• Chinese translation (trans. Weisheng Tang) published in Journal of Jiangxi Social Sciences 7 (2008): 23-30.

• “Recontextualizing Character:  Role-Theoretic Frameworks for Narrative Analysis.” Semiotica [special issue on “The Semiotics of Literature”] 165–1/4 (2007): 191–204.

2006

• “Genette Meets Vygotsky:  Narrative Embedding and Distributed Intelligence.” Language and Literature 15.4 (2006): 375-98.
• “Dialogue in a Discourse Context:  Scenes of Talk in Fictional Narrative.” Narrative Inquiry 16.1 (2006): 79-88.

• Reprinted in Narrative—State of the Art. Ed. Michael Bamberg. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2007. 91-101.

• “Gesture, Narrative, and the Construction of Place.” Proceedings of the 2005 SAALA/LSSA Conference. Eds. Biki Lepota and Jurie Geldenhuys. Pretoria, South Africa: The Southern African Applied Linguistics Association/The Linguistic Society of Southern Africa, 2006. 1-21.
• “Wittgenstein’s Legacy:  Metagrammar, Meaning, and Ordinary Language.” Postmodern Culture 16.1 (September 2005 [published January 2006): http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.905/16.1herman.txt
• “Narrative:  Cognitive Approaches.”  Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition. Volume 8. Ed. Keith Brown et al.; volume editor Catherine Emmott. Oxford: Elsevier Publishers, 2006.  452-59.

2005

• “Histories of Narrative Theory (I): A Genealogy of Early Developments.” The Companion to Narrative Theory. Eds. James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz. Malden: Blackwell, 2005. 19-35.

• Chinese translation published in the Chinese verson of The Companion to Narrative Theory. Eds. James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz; trans. Dan Shen et al. Peking: University of Peking Press, 2007. 3-21.

• “Kognitiví dimenze literárního narativu”‘Cognitive Dimensions of Narrative Fiction.’ Od struktury k fikcnímu svetu: Lubomíru Dolezelovi [From Structure to Fictional Worlds: A Festschrift for Lubomír Dolezel]. Ed. Bohumil Fořt. Olomouc, the Czech Republic:  Aluze Publishers [dated 2004, but published in 2005]. 115-35.  
• “Quantitative Methods in Narratology: A Corpus-based Study of Motion Events in Stories.”  Narratology Beyond Literary Criticism. Ed. Jan Christoph Meister, in cooperation with Tom Kindt, Wilhelm Schernus, and Malte Stein. Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2005.  125-49.
• Author of the following entries for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory: “Actant,” “Action Theory,” “Atomic and Molecular Narratives,” “Conflict,” “Events and Event-types,” “Existent,” “Genealogy,” “Linguistic Approaches to Narrative,” “Mytheme,” “Narrative as Cognitive Instrument,” “Storyworld,” and “Structuralist Narratology”; co-author of “Scene (cinematic)” and “Narrative Semantics.”  Also author of the introduction to the volume.  Ca. 12,500 words total.

2004

• “From Narrative Narcissism to Distributed Intelligence: Reflexivity as Cognitive Instrument in Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.” Frame 17.2/3 (2004): 27-43.
• “Toward a Transmedial Narratology.” Narrative across Media: The Languages of Storytelling. Ed. Marie-Laure Ryan. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. 47-75.
• "On the Notion ‘Post-deconstructive Narrative’: Text Type or Textual Condition?” Poetics Today 25.3 (2004): 541-45.

2003

• “How Stories Make Us Smarter:  Narrative Theory and Cognitive Semiotics.” Recherches en Communication 19 (2003): 133-153
• “Introduction” to Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences. Edited by David Herman. Stanford, CA:  Publications of the Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2003. 1-30.
• "Stories as a Tool for Thinking.” Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences. Edited by David Herman.  Stanford, CA: Publications of the Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2003. 163-92.

• Italian translation ("Il racconto come strumentodi pensiero") published in Neuronarratologia: Il futuro dell'analisi del racconto. Ed. and trans. Stefano Calabrese. Bologna: Archetipolibri, 2009. 99-138.

• “Regrounding Narratology: The Study of Narratively Organized Systems for Thinking.” What is Narratology?  Questions and Answers Regarding the Status of a Theory. Eds. Tom Kindt and Hans-Harald Müller. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2003. 303-32.
• Herman, David, and Becky Childs. “Narrative and Cognition in Beowulf.” Style 37.2 (2003): 177-202.
• Fowler, Roger, and David Herman. “Linguistics and Literature: Language of Prose Fiction.” The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, vol. 2.  2nd edition. Ed. William Frawley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 488-93.

2002

• “Narrative: A User’s Manual.” Style 36.2 (2002): 560-68.
• “Saussure and the Grounds of Interpretation.”  Postmodern Culture 13.1 (2002): http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.902/13.1herman.txt
• “A la recherche du sens perdu.” Poetics Today 23.2 (2002): 327-50.
• “Roland Barthes.” Postmodernism: The Key Figures. Eds. Joseph Natoli and Hans Bertens. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2002. 38-45.

2001

• “Introduction: Approaches to Murdoch.” Modern Fiction Studies 47.3 (2001): 551-57.
• "Spatial Reference in Narrative Domains.” TEXT: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse 21.4 (2001): 515-41.
• “Sciences of the Text.” Postmodern Culture 11.3 (2001): http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.501/11.3herman.txt.
• “Poetika a politika v Praze.” Ceská Literatura 49 (2001): 85-94.

• English-language version published as “Poetics and Politics in Prague” in Semiotica 139.1/4 (2002): 315-325.

• “Story Logic in Conversational and Literary Narratives.” Narrative 9.2 (2001): 130-37.
• "Style-shifting in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth.” Language and Literature 10.1 (2001): 61-77.

• Reprinted in Recent Developments in Western Stylistics. Ed. Dan Shen. Shanghai, China: Shanghai Foreign Languages Education Press, 2008. 158-79.

• “Re-effectuating Joyce.” Modern Fiction Studies 47.2 (2001): 458-63.

2000

• “Narratology as a Cognitive Science.” Image (&) Narrative 1.1 (2000): http://www.imageandnarrative.be/inarchive/narratology/davidherman.htm

• Italian translation ("La narratologia alla luce delle scienze cognitive") published in Neuronarratologia: Il futuro dell'analisi del racconto. Ed. and trans. Stefano Calabrese. Bologna: Archetipolibri, 2009. 29-52.

• Revised version published as "Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences” in Narrative Inquiry 11.1 (2001): 1-34.
  

• “Existentialist Roots of Narrative Actants.” Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature 24.2 (2000): 257-69.  
• “Lateral Reflexivity: Levels, Versions, and the Logic of Paraphrase.” Style [special issue on “Concepts of Narrative”] 34.2 (2000): 293-306.
• “Pragmatic Constraints on Narrative Processing: Actants and Anaphora Resolution in a Corpus of North Carolina Ghost Stories.” Journal of Pragmatics 32.7 (2000): 959-1001.

1999

• “On the Social Dimensions of Novelistic Form: Some Criteria for a Strong Theory.” Review 22.1 (1999): 207-18.
• “Narrative, Reflexivity, and Ideology.” Style 33.3 (1999): 486-95.
• "Spatial Cognition in Natural-Language Narratives.” Papers from the 1999 AAAI Fall Symposium on Narrative Intelligence. Technical Report FS-99-01. Menlo Park, CA: American Association of Artificial Intelligence, 1999. 21-25.
• “Parables of Narrative Imagining.” Diacritics 29.1 (1999): 20-36.
• “Narratologies: An Introduction.” Narratologies: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis.  Ed. David Herman. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. 1-30.
• “Toward a Socionarratology:  New Ways of Analyzing Natural-language Narratives." Narratologies: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis. Ed. David Herman. Columbus:  Ohio State University Press, 1999. 218-46.

• Chinese translations of “Narratologies: An Introduction” and “Towards a Socionarratology: New Ways of Analyzing Natural-language Narratives” published in the Chinese version of Narratologies: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis. Ed. David Herman; trans. Ma Hailiang. Peking: University of Peking Press, 2002. 1-26 and 127-46.

• “Economies of Essence in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth.” The Edith Wharton Review 16.1 (1999): 6-10.

1998

• “Limits of Order:  Toward a Theory of Polychronic Narration.” Narrative 6.1 (1998): 72-95.
• “Theories of Fiction and the Claims of Narrative Poetics.” Poetics Today 19.4 (1998): 597-607.
• "Narrative, Science, and Narrative Science.” Narrative Inquiry 8.2 (1998): 379-90.

• Reprinted in Narrative Theory: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. 4. Ed. Mieke Bal. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. 382-91.

• “Dialogue in a Discourse Context:  Discourse-Analytic Models and Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.”  Virginia Woolf Miscellany 52 (1998): 3-4.
• “Swift, Nietzsche, and Genealogy.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 25.3-4 (1998): 539-48. 
  

1997

• "Scripts, Sequences, and Stories:  Elements of a Postclassical Narratology.”  PMLA 112.5 (1997):  1046-59.
• “On the Grammar of Grammar.” Semiotica 116-2/4 (1997): 393-400.
• “Toward a Formal Description of Narrative Metalepsis.”  Journal of Literary Semantics 26.2 (1997):  132-52.
• “Structuralism’s Fortunate Fall.” Postmodern Culture 8.1(1997):  http://jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU/pmc/text-only/issue.997/review-1.997.

1995

• “Autobiography, Allegory, and the Construction of Self.”  British Journal of Aesthetics 35.4 (1995):  351-360.
• "Vyznam knihy Das literarische Kunstwerk Romana Ingardena pro ceskou literární teorii.”  Ceská literatura 6 (1995): 618-625.

• English-language version published as “Ingarden and the Prague School” in Neophilologus 81 (1997): 481-87.
  

1994

• "Textual You and Double Deixis in Edna O’Brien's A Pagan Place.” Style 28.3 (1994) [special issue on second-person fiction]: 378-410.
• “‘Sirens’ after Schönberg.” James Joyce Quarterly 31.4 (1994): 473-94.    
• "Hypothetical Focalization.” Narrative 2.3 (1994): 230-53.
• “The Mutt and Jute Dialogue in Joyce’s Finnegans Wake: Some Gricean Perspectives.” Style 28.2 (1994): 219-241.    
• "Zionism as Utopian Discourse.” CLIO 23.3 (1994): 235-246.
• “On the Semantic Status of Film: Subjectivity, Possible Worlds, Transcendental Semiotics.” Semiotica 99.1/2 (1994): 5-27.

1993

• “Postmodernism as Secondary Grammar.” boundary 2 20.2 (1993): 205-229.
• “Toward a Pragmatics of Represented Discourse:  Narrative, Speech, and Context in Woolf's Between the Acts.” Poetics 21 (1993): 377-409.
• “Ulysses and Vacuous Pluralism.” Philosophy and Literature 17.1 (1993): 65-76.

1992

• “Meaning, Model-Theoretic Semantics and Model-Worlds.”  Journal of Literary Semantics 21.1 (1992):  55-73.

1991

• “The Incoherence of Kant's Transcendental Dialectic: Specifying the Minimal Conditions for Dialectical Error.” Dialectica 45.1 (1991): 1-29.
• “Ellison’s ‘King of the Bingo Game’:  Finding Naturalism’s Trapdoor.” English Language Notes 24.1 (1991): 71-74.
• “Pragmatika, Prag-matika, meta-pragmatika:  kontexty pragmatickych kontextu.” Ceská Literatura 3 (1991): 220-41.

• English-language version published as “Pragmatics, Prague-matics, Metapragmatics: Contextualizing Pragmatic Contexts” in Neophilologus 76 (1992): 321-46.
  

• “Modernism versus Postmodernism: Toward an Analytic Distinction.” Poetics Today 12.1 (1991): 55-86. 
  

• Reprinted in A Postmodern Reader. Eds. Joseph Natoli and Linda Hutcheon. SUNY Press, 1993. 157-92.

• “Finding out about Gender in Hammett’s Detective Fiction: Generic Constraints orTranscendental Norms?” Genre 24 (1991): 1-23.

• Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literature Criticism, Volume 187. Eds. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007. 131-43.

• “Reprinted in The Critical Response to Dashiell Hammett. Ed. Christopher Metress. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. 205-227.

Reviews          

• Review of Deborah Schiffrin, In Other Words: Variation and Reference in Narrative. eLanguage. Posted June 18, 2010: http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?p=730
• Review of Andreea Deciu Ritivoi, Paul Ricoeur: Tradition and Innovation in Rhetorical Theory. Sub-Stance 36.3 (2007): 139-144.
  
• Review of Ronald K.S. Macaulay, Extremely Common Eloquence: Constructing Scottish Identity through Narrative. Language 83.4 (2007): 917-18.
• Review of Michael Bamberg and Molly Andrews (eds.), Considering Counter-Narratives: Narrating, Resisting, Making Sense. Language in Society 36.2 (2007): 278-284.
• Review of Andreea Deciu Ritivoi, Yesterday’s Self: Nostalgia and the Immigrant Identity. Symploke 13.1-2 (2005): 360-362. [published in 2007]
• Review of George Butte. I Know that You Know that I Know: Narrating Subjects from Moll Flanders to Marnie. Modern Fiction Studies 52.3 (2006): 753-56.
• Review of Peter Stockwell, Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction. Language 82.3 (2006): 696.
• Review of Joanna Gavins and Gerard Steen, eds., Cognitive Poetics in Practice.  Language 82.3 (2006): 680-81.
• Review of Ann Wennerstrom, The Music of Everyday Speech: Prosody and Discourse Analysis. American Speech 81.1 (2006): 94-99.
• Review of Thomas L. Martin, Poesis and Possible Worlds: A Study in Modality and Literary Theory. Style 39.4 (2005): 491-93. [published in 2006]
• Review of Dominic Head, The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000. Style 38.4 (2004): 527-29. [published in 2005]
• Review of Carol Jacobs and Henry Sussman, eds., Acts of Narrative. Symploke 12.1-2 (2004): 298-300. [published in 2005]
• Review of Joseph Tabbi, Cognitive Fictions. Symploke 12.1-2 (2004): 294-96. [published in 2005]
• Review of David Edmonds and John Eidinow, Wittgenstein’s Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers. Sub-Stance 109 (2004): 142-44.
• Review of H. Porter Abbott, The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative. Symploke 11.1/2 (2003): 263-64.
• Review of Barbara Johnstone, Discourse Analysis. Southern Journal of Linguistics 25.1/2 (2001) [published in 2003]: 193-96.
• Review of Christian Moraru, Rewriting: Postmodern Narrative and Cultural Critique in the Age of Cloning.  Modern Fiction Studies 49.2 (2003): 375-77.
• Review of Willie van Peer and Seymour Chatman, eds., New Perspectives on Narrative Perspective. Style 35.3 (2001): 561-65.
• Review of Bran Nicol, Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction. Modern Fiction Studies 47.3 (2001): 715-17.
• Review of Barbara Johnstone, Qualitative Methods in Sociolinguistics. Southern Journal of Linguistics 24.1 (2000): 141-44.
• Review of Monika Fludernik, Towards a “Natural” Narratology. Language 76.1 (2000): 199-200.
• Review of Joseph Francese, Narrating Postmodern Time and Space. Rivista di letterature moderne e comparate 52.4 (1999): 406-409.
• Review of Mark Currie, Postmodern Narrative Theory. Modern Fiction Studies 45.4 (1999): 1092-96.
• Review of Lubomír Dolezel, Heterocosmica: Fiction and Possible Worlds. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57.3 (1999):  377-81.
• Review of Jonathan Culler, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Sub-Stance 89 (1999): 159-62.
• Review of Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes, American English: Dialects and Variation. Language and Literature 8.1 (1999): 94-95.
• Review of Katharine Young, Presence in the Flesh: The Body in Medicine. Style 32.3 (1998): 512-18.
• Review of Catherine Emmott, Narrative Comprehension: A Discourse Perspective. Language 74.4 (1998):  869-71.
• Review of Gérard Genette, Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree. Modern Fiction Studies 44.4 (1998): 1043-48.
• Review of Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction. 2nd edition. Sub-Stance 86 (1998): 139-42.
• Review of Alan Morris, Patrick Modiano. Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature 22.2 (1998): 387-90.
• “Americky sborník k narozeninám Lubomíra Dolezela”: A review of Calin-AndreiMihailescu and Walid Hamarneh, eds., Fiction Updated: Theories of Fictionality, Narratology, and Poetics. Ceská Literatura 45.6 (1997): 644-48.
• Review of Claude Bremond, Joshua Landy, and Thomas Pavel, eds., Thematics: New Approaches. Style 31.1 (1997): 194-199.
• Review of Richard J. Gerrig, Experiencing Narrative Worlds: On the Psychological Activities of Reading.  Sub-Stance 82 (1997): 167-70.    
• Review of Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, A Glance beyond Doubt: Narration, Representation, Subjectivity.  Modern Fiction Studies 43 (1997): 1069-74.
• Review of Martin Cortazzi, Narrative Analysis. Sub-Stance 84 (1997): 180-82.
• Review of James Phelan, Narrative as Rhetoric: Technique, Audiences, Ethics, Ideology. Novel 30.1 (1996):  135-37.  
• Review of Charlotte Linde, Life Stories: The Creation of Coherence. Style 30.1 (1996): 175-78.
• Review of Roger Schank, Tell Me a Story: A New Look at Real and Artificial Memory. Sub-Stance 79 (1996): 140-42.
• Review of Ellen Spolsky, Gaps in Nature: Literary Interpretation and the Modular Mind. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54 (1996): 96-97.
• Review of Joseph Brent, Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life. Sub-Stance 78 (1995): 124-25.
• Review of Deborah Schiffrin, Approaches to Discourse. Philosophy and Literature 19.2 (1995): 396-98.
• Review of Ruth Ronen, Possible Worlds in Literary Theory. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53 (1995): 449-50.
• Review of Lawrence D. Roberts, How Reference Works:  Explanatory Models for Indexicals, Descriptions and Opacity. Language 71.3 (1995): 655-56.
• Review of David Ellison, Of Words and the World: Referential Anxiety in Contemporary French Fiction.  Sub-Stance 76/77 (1995): 192-96.
• Review of Marie-Laure Ryan, Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory. Sub-Stance 74 (1994): 135-39.
• Review of Edouard Morot-Sir, The Imagination of Reference:  Meditating the Linguistic Condition.  Philosophy and Literature 18.1 (1994): 167-69.
• Review of Jean-François Lyotard, Phenomenology. Sub-Stance 70 (1993): 112-116.
• Review of Lubomír Dolezel, Occidental Poetics. Philosophy and Literature 16.2 (1992): 397-99.

Other Works Published

Shorter Essays, Squibs, Responses

• "Explanation without Reductionism: A Response to Raymond Tallis’s 'Does Evolution Explain Our Behaviour?'" September 29, 2009. On the Human: Forum. Website sponsored by The National Humanities Center. Ed. Gary Comstock. http://onthehuman.org/2009/09/does-evolution-explain-our-behaviour/
• "Niches as Networks: A Response to Mark Turner's 'The Scope of Human Thought.'" August 2009. On the Human: Forum. Website sponsored by the National Humanities Center. Ed. Gary Comstock. http://onthehuman.org/2009/08/the-scope-of-human-thought/
• “A Postclassical Narratology: Reply to Brian Richardson”; Forum section of PMLA 113.2 (1998):  289-90.

Interviews

• "David Herman interviewed by Barry Mazur." To be published on companion website for Circles Disturbed: The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative. Eds. Apostolos Doxiadis and Barry Mazur. Princeton: Princeton University Press (forthcoming in 2011).
• "David Herman interviewed by Andrés Lomeña." Sociodicea. February 15, 2011. In Spanish. http://www.sociodicea.es/?p=74
  
• "New Developments in the Study of Narrative: An Interview with David Herman." With Shang Biwu. Foreign Literature 5 (2009): 97-105. In Chinese.
• "Project Narrative: An Interview with David Herman on the State of the Art in Narrative Studies." SemiotiX: A Global Information Bulletin 13 (October 2008): http://www.semioticon.com/semiotix/semiotix13/sem-13-05-02.html
  
• "Nové směry naratologických zkoumání: Rozhovor d Davidem Hermanem" ["New Directions in Narrative Theory: An Interview with David Herman"]. With Bohumil Fořt. Česká literatura 56.3 (2008): 390-99. In Czech.
  
• David Herman interviewed by Nils Gunder Hansen about current trends in narrative inquiry. Berlingske Tidende. July 5, 2007. In Danish. http://www.berlingske.dk/article/20070705/kultur/107051046/

Short Fiction:

• Oglethorpe Bigby: A Sketch.” nthposition (March 2009): http://www.nthposition.com/oglethorpe.php
• “The Impossible Ethic of Oglethorpe Bigby.” Storyglossia 22 (August 2007): http://www.storyglossia.com/22/dh_bigby.html

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