目次
Narrative and narrating -- The theory of narrative -- Text and authorship : The author -- The structure of narrative : Text-internal narrative structures ; Narrative and plot ; The narrator: person ; Time ; Presentational modes ; Focalization, perspective, point of view -- The surface of narrative Space/time -- Fictional characters: how characters are introduced ; Story and contouring ; Oral storytelling and the episodic model ; Episodic structure ; The creative use of pronouns in texts ; Experiments with tense in narratives -- Realism, illusionism and metafiction : Narrative realism ; Roland Barthes ; The authenticity of the narrative voice ; Fictionality ; Metafiction and metanarration -- Language, the representation of speech and the stylistics of narrative : Language ; Representing speech ; Language and style ; Stylistic variation ; Metaphor and metonymy -- Thoughts, feelings and the unconscious -- Narrative typologies : Franz Karl Stanzel's theory of narrative ; Gérard Genette's theory of narrative ; Recent theories of narrative -- Diachronic approaches to narrative : From speech to writing ; The development of new narrative modes and their cognitive bases -- Narratological firsts ; New media ; Changing functions and theoretical readjustments ; Open research questions -- Practical applications : Great expectations and Mister Pip: childhood selves ; Authorial narrative: the perspective form above ; Reading people's minds -- Guidelines for budding narratologists : How to write about narratological issues ; Some do's and don't's: how to avoid narratologically infelicitous phrases
