Companion To Narrative Theory Book

	Introduction : tradition and innovation in contemporary narrative theory	1
1	Histories of narrative theory (I) : a genealogy of early developments	19
2	Histories of narrative theory (II) : from structuralism to the present	36
3	Ghosts and monsters : on the (im)possibility of narrating the history of narrative theory	60
4	Resurrection of the implied author : why bother?	75
5	Reconceptualizing unreliable narration : synthesizing cognitive and rhetorical approaches	89
6	Authorial rhetoric, narratorial (un)reliability, divergent readings : Tolstoy's Kreutzer sonata	108
7	Henry James and "focalization," or why James loves gyp	124
8	What narratology and stylistics can do for each other	136
9	The pragmatics of narrative fictionality	150
10	Beyond the poetics of plot : alternative forms of narrative progression and the multiple trajectories of Ulysses	167
11	They shoot tigers, don't they? : path and counterpoint in the long goodbye	181
12	Spatial poetics and Arundhati Roy's The God of small things	192
13	The "I" of the beholder : equivocal attachments and the limits of structuralist narratology	206
14	Neonarrative; or, how to render the unnarratable in realist fiction and contemporary film	220
15	Self-consciousness as a narrative feature and force : tellers vs. informants in generic design	232
16	Effects of sequence, embedding, and ekphrasis in Poe's "The oval portrait"	253
17	Mrs. Dalloway's progeny : The hours as second-degree narrative	269
18	Genre, repetition, temporal order : some aspects of biblical narratology	285
19	Why won't our terms stay put? : the narrative communication diagram scrutinized and historicized	299
20	Gender and history in narrative theory : the problem of retrospective distance in David Copperfield and Bleak house	312
21	Narrative judgments and the rhetorical theory of narrative : Ian McEwan's Atonement	322
22	The changing faces of Mount Rushmore : collective portraiture and participatory national heritage	337
23	The trouble with autobiography : cautionary notes for narrative theorists	356
24	On a postcolonial narratology	372
25	Modernist soundscapes and the intelligent ear : an approach to narrative through auditory perception	382
26	In two voices, or : whose life/death/story is it, anyway?	399
27	Narrative in and of the law	415
28	Second nature, cinematic narrative, the historical subject, and Russian Ark	427
29	Narrativizing the end : death and opera	441
30	Music and/as cine-narrative or : Ceci n'est pas un leitmotif	451
31	Classical instrumental music and narrative	466
32	"I'm Spartacus!"	484
33	Shards of a history of performance art : Pollock and Namuth through a glass, darkly	499
34	Narrative and digitality : learning to think with the medium	515
35	The future of all narrative futures	529