Companion to Narrative Theory

James Phelan is Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is the editor of the journal Narrative and the author of several books in narrative theory, the most recent of which are Living to Tell About It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration (2005) and Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative (2007). Peter J. Rabinowitz is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College. His previous publications include Before Reading (1987) and Authorizing Readers (coauthored with Michael Smith, 1998). He is also a music critic and serves as a contributing editor of Fanfare. Phelan and Rabinowitz are coeditors of the Ohio State University Press series on the Theory and Interpretation of Narrative, which now has more than twenty-five titles to its credit.

"Written by major narrative theorists, these essays are original to this volume and are impressively accessible. The editors include ample notes, suggestions for further reading, and a brief glossary. Highly recommended."Choice

• Notes on Contributors xAcknowledgments xviiIntroduction: Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Narrative Theory 1James Phelan and Peter J. RabinowitzPrologue1 Histories of Narrative Theory (I): A Genealogy of Early Developments 19David Herman2 Histories of Narrative Theory (II): From Structuralism to the Present 36Monika Fludernik3 Ghosts and Monsters: On the (Im)Possibility of Narrating the History of Narrative Theory 60Brian McHalePART I New Light on Stubborn Problems 734 Resurrection of the Implied Author: Why Bother? 75Wayne C. Booth5 Reconceptualizing Unreliable Narration: Synthesizing Cognitive and Rhetorical Approaches 89Ansgar F. Nünning6 Authorial Rhetoric, Narratorial (Un)Reliability, Divergent Readings: Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata 108Tamar Yacobi7 Henry James and ‘‘Focalization,’’ or Why James Loves Gyp 124J. Hillis Miller8 What Narratology and Stylistics Can Do for Each Other 136Dan Shen9 The Pragmatics of Narrative Fictionality 150Richard WalshPART II Revisions and Innovations 16510 Beyond the Poetics of Plot: Alternative Forms of Narrative Progression and the Multiple Trajectories of Ulysses 167Brian Richardson11 They Shoot Tigers, Don’t They?: Path and Counterpoint in The Long Goodbye 181Peter J. Rabinowitz12 Spatial Poetics and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things 192Susan Stanford Friedman13 The ‘‘I’’ of the Beholder: Equivocal Attachments and the Limits of Structuralist Narratology 206Susan S. Lanser14 Neonarrative; or, How to Render the Unnarratable in Realist Fiction and Contemporary Film 220Robyn R. Warhol15 Self-consciousness as a Narrative Feature and Force: Tellers vs. Informants in Generic Design 232Meir Sternberg16 Effects of Sequence, Embedding, and Ekphrasis in Poe’s ‘‘The Oval Portrait’’ 253Emma Kafalenos17 Mrs. Dalloway’s Progeny: The Hours as Second-degree Narrative 269Seymour ChatmanPART III Narrative Form and its Relationship to History, Politics, and Ethics 28318 Genre, Repetition, Temporal Order: Some Aspects of Biblical Narratology 285David H. Richter19 Why Won’t Our Terms Stay Put? The Narrative Communication Diagram Scrutinized and Historicized 299Harry E. Shaw20 Gender and History in Narrative Theory: The Problem of Retrospective Distance in David Copperfield and Bleak House 312Alison Case21 Narrative Judgments and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative: Ian McEwan’s Atonement 322James Phelan22 The Changing Faces of Mount Rushmore: Collective Portraiture and Participatory National Heritage 337Alison Booth23 The Trouble with Autobiography: Cautionary Notes for Narrative Theorists 356Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson24 On a Postcolonial Narratology 372Gerald Prince25 Modernist Soundscapes and the Intelligent Ear: An Approach to Narrative Through Auditory Perception 382Melba Cuddy-Keane26 In Two Voices, or: Whose Life/Death/Story Is It, Anyway? 399Shlomith Rimmon-KenanPART IV Beyond Literary Narrative 41327 Narrative in and of the Law 415Peter Brooks28 Second Nature, Cinematic Narrative, the Historical Subject, and Russian Ark 427Alan Nadel29 Narrativizing the End: Death and Opera 441Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon30 Music and/as Cine-Narrative or: Ceci n’est pas un leitmotif 451Royal S. Brown31 Classical Instrumental Music and Narrative 466Fred Everett Maus32 ‘‘I’m Spartacus!’’ 484Catherine Gunther Kodat33 Shards of a History of Performance Art: Pollock and Namuth Through a Glass, Darkly 499Peggy PhelanEpilogue34 Narrative and Digitality: Learning to Think With the Medium 515Marie-Laure Ryan35 The Future of All Narrative Futures 529H. Porter AbbottGlossary 542Index 552