"An important book....It is one thing to announce a new interdisciplinary paradigm, yet quite another thing to systematically implement it....In their book [Bortolussi and Dixon] systematically develop a program of research in psychonarratology....this provides a powerful framework for the investigation of narrative....Mandatory reading for my students." Newsletter of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature

• 1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries; 3. The narrator; 4. Events and plot; 5. Characters and characterization; 6. Perception and focalization; 7. Represented speech and thought; 8. Directions and unsolved problems; Appendix. Evaluating evidence.

"An important book....It is one thing to announce a new interdisciplinary paradigm, yet quite another thing to systematically implement it....In their book [Bortolussi and Dixon] systematically develop a program of research in psychonarratology....this provides a powerful framework for the investigation of narrative....Mandatory reading for my students." Newsletter of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature

• 1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries; 3. The narrator; 4. Events and plot; 5. Characters and characterization; 6. Perception and focalization; 7. Represented speech and thought; 8. Directions and unsolved problems; Appendix. Evaluating evidence.

"An important book....It is one thing to announce a new interdisciplinary paradigm, yet quite another thing to systematically implement it....In their book [Bortolussi and Dixon] systematically develop a program of research in psychonarratology....this provides a powerful framework for the investigation of narrative....Mandatory reading for my students." Newsletter of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature

• 1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries; 3. The narrator; 4. Events and plot; 5. Characters and characterization; 6. Perception and focalization; 7. Represented speech and thought; 8. Directions and unsolved problems; Appendix. Evaluating evidence.