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Meet our narrative studies acquisitions editor
![Ana Jimenez-Moreno headshot](../../assets/Acq/AnaJimenezMoreno.jpg)
jimenez-moreno.1@osu.edu
Acquires broadly in literary and cultural Studies, including narrative studies and the Theory and Interpretation of Narrative series
Welcome to our virtual booth! I am interested in hearing about your projects and welcome email proposals. I am always looking for critical work that engages with urgent and enduring issues in the field and in the world.
View our proposal guidelines at our prospective authors page.
New & Notable in Narrative Studies
![Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts cover](../../assets/covers/9780814215425.jpg)
Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Virginia Pignagnoli$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover
Forthcoming April 2023
![Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and V. cover](../../assets/covers/9780814215357.jpg)
Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and V.
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Luc Herman and John M. Krafft$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover
![The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel cover](../../assets/covers/9780814215470.jpg)
The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Paul Dawson$74.95 $52.47 Hardcover
![Fictionality and Literature: Core Concepts Revisited cover](../../assets/covers/9780814215012.jpg)
Fictionality and Literature: Core Concepts Revisited
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Lasse R. Gammelgaard, Stefan Iversen, Louise Brix Jacobsen et al., Eds$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover
![A New Anatomy of Storyworlds: What Is, What If, As If cover](../../assets/covers/9780814215081.jpg)
A New Anatomy of Storyworlds: What Is, What If, As If
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Marie-Laure Ryan$89.95 $62.97 Hardcover
![Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics cover](../../assets/covers/9780814215029.jpg)
Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Silke Horstkotte and Nancy Pedri$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover
![Narrative in the Anthropocene cover](../../assets/covers/9780814215074.jpg)
Narrative in the Anthropocene
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Erin James$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover
![Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition
in Twenty-First-Century Narrative cover](../../assets/covers/9780814214824.jpg)
Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative
Cognitive Approaches to Culture
Torsa Ghosal$89.95 $62.97 Hardcover
![With Bodies: Narrative Theory and Embodied Cognition cover](../../assets/covers/9780814214800.jpg)
With Bodies: Narrative Theory and Embodied Cognition
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Marco Caracciolo and Karin Kukkonen, Eds.$34.95 $24.47 Paper
![Authorizing Superhero Comics: On the Evolution of a Popular Serial Genre cover](../../assets/covers/9780814214763.jpg)
Authorizing Superhero Comics: On the Evolution of a Popular Serial Genre
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Daniel Stein$34.95 $24.47 Paper
![Audionarratology: Lessons from Radio Drama cover](../../assets/covers/9780814214725.jpg)
Audionarratology: Lessons from Radio Drama
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Lars Bernaerts and Jarmila Mildorf, Eds.$99.95 $69.97 Hardcover
![Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips cover](../../assets/covers/9780814214572.jpg)
Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Susan E. Kirtley$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Winner, 2022 CSS Charles Hatfield Book Prize for Best Monograph
![Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis cover](../../assets/covers/9780814214565.jpg)
Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Astrid Ensslin and Alice Bell$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover
![Contemporary French and Francophone Narratology cover](../../assets/covers/9780814214497.jpg)
Contemporary French and Francophone Narratology
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Edited by John Pier$89.95 $62.97 Hardcover
![We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction cover](../../assets/covers/9780814214411.jpg)
We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Natalya Bekhta$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover
Winner, 2021 ISSN Perkins Prize
![Debating Rhetorical Narratology: On the Synthetic, Mimetic, and Thematic Aspects of Narrative cover](../../assets/covers/9780814214282.jpg)
Debating Rhetorical Narratology: On the Synthetic, Mimetic, and Thematic Aspects of Narrative
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Matthew Clark and James Phelan$29.95 $20.97 Paper
![Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges cover](../../assets/covers/9780814214190.jpg)
Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Jan Alber and Brian Richardson, Eds.$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover
![Shaming into Brown: Somatic Transactions of Race in Latina/o Literature cover](../../assets/covers/9780814213858.jpg)
Shaming into Brown: Somatic Transactions of Race in Latina/o Literature
Cognitive Approaches to Culture
Stephanie Fetta$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Winner of the 2019 MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies
![Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives cover](../../assets/covers/9780814213698.jpg)
Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Divya Dwivedi, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Richard Walsh, Eds.$29.95 $20.97 Paper
![Novelization: From Film to Novel cover](../../assets/covers/9780814213674.jpg)
Novelization: From Film to Novel
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Jan Baetens$29.95 $20.97 Paper
![Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet cover](../../assets/covers/9780814212998.jpg)
Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote, and Maoz Azaryahu$39.95 $27.97 Paper
![Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions cover](../../assets/covers/9780814212806.jpg)
Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser, Eds.$42.95 $30.07 Paper
New in Paperback
![Eternalized Fragments: Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World Fiction cover](../../assets/covers/9780814214374.jpg)
Eternalized Fragments: Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World Fiction
Cognitive Approaches to Culture
W. Michelle Wang$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
![Environment and Narrative cover](../../assets/covers/9780814214206.jpg)
Environment and Narrative
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Erin James and Eric Morel, Eds. $39.95 $27.97 New in Paper
![A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-First Century: Theorizing Unruly Narratives
cover](../../assets/covers/9780814214121.jpg)
A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-First Century: Theorizing Unruly Narratives
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Brian Richardson
$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
![Playing at Narratology: Digital Media as Narrative Theory cover](../../assets/covers/9780814214084.jpg)
Playing at Narratology: Digital Media as Narrative Theory
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Daniel Punday$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
![Necessary Nonsense: Aesthetics, History, Neurology, Psychology cover](../../assets/covers/9780814213797.jpg)
Necessary Nonsense: Aesthetics, History, Neurology, Psychology
Cognitive Approaches to Culture
Irving Massey$29.95 $20.97 New in Paper
Narrative
We proudly publish Narrative, the journal of the International Society for the Study of Narrative, edited by James Phelan. Narrative’s mission is to publish essays that contribute to both narrative theory and the interpretation of individual narratives. Within those parameters, the journal is open to work on the elements, techniques, structures, and forms of narrative as well as on its relations to other modes of discourse, its history, and its powers (and limits) in cultures past and present.
The journal is interested in narrative across disciplines and across media, and, thus, it welcomes submissions on the theory and interpretation of the novel, the short story, narrative poetry, history, biography, autobiography, memoir, film, television, journalism, comics and other graphic arts, music, performance, legal writing, medical case histories, and more.
Read an interview with editor James Phelan
Questions about our journals publishing program? Contact journals manager Emily Taylor