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Meet our narrative studies acquisitions editor
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
On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Michelle Bumatay$36.95 $25.87 Paper
Never on Time, Always in Time: Narrative Form and the Queer Sensorium
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Kate McCullough$69.95 $48.97 Hardcover
Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Daniel Worden$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Slow Narrative across Media
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Edited by Marco Caracciolo and Ella Mingazova$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover
Deformative Fictions: Cruelty and Narrative Ethics in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Ashley Hope Pérez$34.95 $24.47 Paper
Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Alex Beringer$36.95 $25.87 Paper
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures
Edited by Barbara Buchenau, Jens Martin Gurr, and Maria Sulimma $59.95 $41.97 Hardcover
Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Virginia Pignagnoli$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover
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
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Paul Dawson$74.95 $52.47 Hardcover
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
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Marie-Laure Ryan$89.95 $62.97 Hardcover
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
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Erin James$79.95 $55.97 Hardcover
Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative
Cognitive Approaches to Culture
Torsa Ghosal$39.95 $27.97 New in Paper
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
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
Daniel Stein$34.95 $24.47 Paper
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
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
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Astrid Ensslin and Alice Bell$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Alexandra Valint$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Romanticism’s Other Minds: Poetry, Cognition, and the Science of Sociability
Cognitive Approaches to Culture
John Savarese$39.95 $27.97 New in Paper
The Politics of Privacy in Contemporary Native, Latinx, and Asian American Metafictions
Colleen G. Eils$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Contemporary French and Francophone Narratology
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Edited by John Pier$39.95 $27.97 New in Paper
Novels of Displacement: Fiction in the Age of Global Capital
Marco Codebò$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
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
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Matthew Clark and James Phelan$29.95 $20.97 Paper
Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Jan Alber and Brian Richardson, Eds.$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
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
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Divya Dwivedi, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Richard Walsh, Eds.$29.95 $20.97 Paper
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
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
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser, Eds.$42.95 $30.07 Paper
New in Paperback
Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Alexandra Valint$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Astrid Ensslin and Alice Bell$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative
Cognitive Approaches to Culture
Torsa Ghosal$39.95 $27.97 New in Paper
Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Jan Alber and Brian Richardson, Eds.$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
The Politics of Privacy in Contemporary Native, Latinx, and Asian American Metafictions
Colleen G. Eils$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Novels of Displacement: Fiction in the Age of Global Capital
Marco Codebò$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
Romanticism’s Other Minds: Poetry, Cognition, and the Science of Sociability
Cognitive Approaches to Culture
John Savarese$39.95 $27.97 New in Paper
Contemporary French and Francophone Narratology
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Edited by John Pier$39.95 $27.97 New in Paper
Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel
Adam Grener$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
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
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
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Brian Richardson
$34.95 $24.47 New in Paper
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
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
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