Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her most recent publications include A Glance Beyond Doubt: Narration, Representation, Subjectivity and Re-Reading Texts: Re-Thinking Critical Presuppositions. Her current projects concerns the concepts or narrative in different desciplines (psychoanalysis, historiography, legal studies and the medical humanities).

'An instructive account of the ways in which readers can, should and do read narrative fictions.' - Modern Fiction Studies

• 1. Introduction  2. Story: events  3. Story: characters  4. Text: time  5. Text: characterization  6. Text: focalization  7. Narration: levels and voices  8. Narration: speech representation  9. The text and its reading  10. Conclusion  11. Towards...:afterthoughts, almost twenty years later

Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her most recent publications include A Glance Beyond Doubt: Narration, Representation, Subjectivity and Re-Reading Texts: Re-Thinking Critical Presuppositions. Her current projects concerns the concepts or narrative in different desciplines (psychoanalysis, historiography, legal studies and the medical humanities).

'An instructive account of the ways in which readers can, should and do read narrative fictions.' - Modern Fiction Studies

• 1. Introduction  2. Story: events  3. Story: characters  4. Text: time  5. Text: characterization  6. Text: focalization  7. Narration: levels and voices  8. Narration: speech representation  9. The text and its reading  10. Conclusion  11. Towards...:afterthoughts, almost twenty years later

Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her most recent publications include A Glance Beyond Doubt: Narration, Representation, Subjectivity and Re-Reading Texts: Re-Thinking Critical Presuppositions. Her current projects concerns the concepts or narrative in different desciplines (psychoanalysis, historiography, legal studies and the medical humanities).

'An instructive account of the ways in which readers can, should and do read narrative fictions.' - Modern Fiction Studies

• 1. Introduction  2. Story: events  3. Story: characters  4. Text: time  5. Text: characterization  6. Text: focalization  7. Narration: levels and voices  8. Narration: speech representation  9. The text and its reading  10. Conclusion  11. Towards...:afterthoughts, almost twenty years later