Cambridge Companion to Narrative Book

Part I. Preliminaries:
1. Introduction David Herman;
2. Toward a definition of narrative Marie-Laure Ryan;
Part II. Studying Narrative Fiction: A Starter-kit:
3. Story, plot, and narration H. Porter Abbott;
4. Time and space Teresa Bridgeman;
5. Character Uri Margolin;
6. Dialogue Bronwen Thomas;
7. Focalization Manfred Jahn;
8. Genre Heta Pyrhönen;
Part III. Other Narrative Media (A Selection):
9. Conversational storytelling Neal R. Norrick;
10. Drama and narrative Brian Richardson;
11. Film and television narrative Jason Mittell;
12. Narrative and digital media Nick Montfort;
Part IV. Further Contexts for Narrative Study:
13. Gender Ruth Page;
14. Rhetoric/ethics James Phelan;
15. Ideology Luc Herman and Bart Vervaeck;
16. Language Michael Toolan;
17. Cognition, emotion, and consciousness David Herman;
18. Identity/alterity Monika Fludernik; Further reading; Glossary; Index.