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Frontiers of Narrative Series

36 primary works • 36 total works
The Frontiers of Narrative Series features interdisciplinary scholarship on narrative as it appears in a range of media. Projects in this series take seriously the “frontiers” of the series title: they highlight the role of narrative across a variety of cultural and historical settings and outline new methods for investigating storytelling in all o…
Optional-Narrator Theory: Principles, Perspectives, Proposals
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4.33 · 3 Ratings · 3 editions
Twentieth-century narratology fostered the assumpt…

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    The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place
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    Tracing the linkages between the postcolonial bild…

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    Narrative across Media: The Languages of Storytelling
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    3.78     · 59 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2004 · 10 editions
    Narratology has been conceived from its earliest d…

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    Storyworlds across Media: Toward a Media-Conscious Narratology
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    3.88     · 33 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2014 · 8 editions
    The proliferation of media and their ever-increasi…

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    Talk Fiction: Literature and the Talk Explosion (Frontiers of Narrative) by Irene Kacandes
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    Spaces of the Mind: Narrative and Community in the American West
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2004 · 2 editions
    Spaces of the Mind reveals how both immigrant Euro…

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    Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices
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    3.50     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2009 · 3 editions
    George Eliot wrote that “man cannot do without the…

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    The Imagined Moment: Time, Narrative, and Computation
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    4.67     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2010 · 6 editions
    Time is a key aspect of narrative. It can advance …

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    The Emergence of Mind: Representations of Consciousness in Narrative Discourse in English
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    4.22     · 9 Ratings · published 2011 · 4 editions
    From Chaucer’s Pardoner to Eliot’s Edward Casaubon…

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    New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age
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    3.29     · 17 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2011 · 9 editions
    Just as the explosive growth of digital media has …

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    Fictional Dialogue: Speech and Conversation in the Modern and Postmodern Novel
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    3.50     · 2 Ratings · published 2012 · 4 editions
    Experimentation with the speech of characters has …

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    Telling Children's Stories: Narrative Theory and Children's Literature
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    3.75     · 12 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2011 · 4 editions
    The most accessible approach yet to children’s lit…

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    Affective Narratology: The Emotional Structure of Stories
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    3.47     · 36 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2011 · 4 editions
    Stories engage our emotions. We’ve known this at l…

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    Writing at the Limit: The Novel in the New Media Ecology
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    0.00     · published 2012 · 4 editions
    While some cultural critics are pronouncing the de…

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    Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative
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    3.95     · 22 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2002 · 4 editions
    Featuring a major synthesis and critique of interd…

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    Fictional Minds
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    3.79     · 39 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2004 · 4 editions
    Fictional Minds suggests that readers understand n…

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    Coincidence and Counterfactuality: Plotting Time and Space in Narrative Fiction
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    3.89     · 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2008 · 4 editions
    In Coincidence and Counterfactuality , a groundbre…

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    Useful Fictions: Evolution, Anxiety, and the Origins of Literature
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    4.08     · 26 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2011 · 4 editions
    "We tell ourselves stories in order to live," Joan…

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    Storying Domestic Violence: Constructions and Stereotypes of Abuse in the Discourse of General Practitioners
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    0.00     · published 2007 · 3 editions
    Globally, at least one in four women experiences d…

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    Stories and Minds: Cognitive Approaches to Literary Narrative
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    3.70     · 10 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2013 · 6 editions
    How do narratives draw on our memory capacity? How…

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    Contemporary Comics Storytelling
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    3.22     · 9 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2013 · 6 editions
    What if fairy-tale characters lived in New York Ci…

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    The Storyworld Accord: Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives
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    4.00     · 6 Ratings · published 2015 · 3 editions
    “Storyworlds,” mental models of context and enviro…

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    Imagining Kashmir: Emplotment and Colonialism
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    During the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontine…

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    The Cruft of Fiction: Mega-Novels and the Science of Paying Attention
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    4.33     · 9 Ratings · 9 Reviews · 2 editions
    What is the strange appeal of big books? The mega-…

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    The Story of "Me": Contemporary American Autofiction
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    4.00     · 4 Ratings · 2 editions
    Autofiction, or works in which the eponymous autho…

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    Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology
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    4.56     · 9 Ratings · 2 editions
    The notion of possible worlds has played a decisiv…

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    Chaucer's Losers, Nintendo's Children, and Other Forays in Queer Ludonarratology
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    3.50     · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 2 editions
    Tison Pugh examines the intersection of narratolog…

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    Handbook of Narrative Analysis
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    3.35     · 108 Ratings · 12 Reviews · published 2001 · 13 editions
    The study of narrative has been a continuous conce…

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    Narrative Complexity: Cognition, Embodiment, Evolution
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · 2 editions
    The variety in contemporary philosophical and aest…

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    Opening Acts: Narrative Beginnings in Twentieth-Century Feminist Fiction
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    0.00     · published 2015 · 1 edition
    In the beginning there was . . . the beginning. An…

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    Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2015 · 3 editions
    How do writers represent cognition, and what can t…

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    Unnatural Narrative: Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama
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    4.08     · 12 Ratings · 2 editions
    A talking body part, a character that is simultane…

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    Strange Narrators in Contemporary Fiction: Explorations in Readers' Engagement with Characters
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    4.33     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 2 editions
    A storyteller’s craft can often be judged by how c…

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    Ethos and Narrative Interpretation: The Negotiation of Values in Fiction
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2014 · 3 editions
    Ethos and Narrative Interpretation examines the fr…

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    Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture
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    3.67     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2016 · 3 editions
    Narratives are everywhere—and since a significant …

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    Pseudo-Memoirs: Life and Its Imitation in Modern Fiction
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    Pseudo-Memoirs redefines the notion of fiction its…

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