Mieke Bal is an award-winning cultural theorist, critic, video artist, curator, and professor of cultural analysis at the University of Amsterdam.

"The book is an excellent introduction to narratology. It is clearly and concisely written, and it explains the categories of narratology in a straightforward fashion."- Lawrence R. Schehr (SubStance) "The clarity of the exposition and the open, unobtrusive acknowledgment of sources in the text will encourage students to read important related works of theory with the benefit of an already established and solidly constructed frame of reference."- Joan Dargan (Nineteenth-Century French Studies) "Narratology is a rich, highly instructive and eminently readable text." - Uri Margolin (Canadian Review of Comparative Literature)

• Introduction1. Text: Signs Preliminary RemarksThe NarratorNon-Narrative CommentsDescriptionLevels of Narration2. Story: Aspects Preliminary RemarksTemporalitySequential OrderingRhythmFrequencyCharactersSpaceFocalization3. Fabula: Elements Preliminary RemarksEventsActorsTimeLocation

Mieke Bal is an award-winning cultural theorist, critic, video artist, curator, and professor of cultural analysis at the University of Amsterdam.

"The book is an excellent introduction to narratology. It is clearly and concisely written, and it explains the categories of narratology in a straightforward fashion."- Lawrence R. Schehr (SubStance) "The clarity of the exposition and the open, unobtrusive acknowledgment of sources in the text will encourage students to read important related works of theory with the benefit of an already established and solidly constructed frame of reference."- Joan Dargan (Nineteenth-Century French Studies) "Narratology is a rich, highly instructive and eminently readable text." - Uri Margolin (Canadian Review of Comparative Literature)

• Introduction1. Text: Signs Preliminary RemarksThe NarratorNon-Narrative CommentsDescriptionLevels of Narration2. Story: Aspects Preliminary RemarksTemporalitySequential OrderingRhythmFrequencyCharactersSpaceFocalization3. Fabula: Elements Preliminary RemarksEventsActorsTimeLocation