Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Edited by James Phelan, Katra Byram, and Faye Halpern
New & Forthcoming Theory and Interpretation of Narrative Titles:
![Slow Narrative across Media book cover](../../assets/covers/9780814215678.jpg)
Slow Narrative across Media
Edited by Marco Caracciolo and Ella Mingazova
![Deformative Fictions: Cruelty and Narrative Ethics in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature book cover](../../assets/covers/9780814215654.jpg)
Deformative Fictions: Cruelty and Narrative Ethics in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Ashley Hope Pérez
![Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts cover](../../assets/covers/9780814215425.jpg)
Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts
Virginia Pignagnoli
![Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and <em>V.</em> cover](../../assets/covers/9780814215357.jpg)
Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and V.
Luc Herman and John M. Krafft
Fictionality and Literature: Core Concepts Revisited
Gammelgaard et al., Eds.
A New Anatomy of Storyworlds: What Is, What If, As If
Marie-Laure Ryan
Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics
Silke Horstkotte and Nancy Pedri
Narrative in the Anthropocene
Erin James
![book cover With Bodies book cover](../../assets/covers/9780814214800.jpg)
With Bodies: Narrative Theory and Embodied Cognition
Marco Caracciolo and Karin Kukkonen
![book cover Audionarratology book cover](../../assets/covers/9780814214725.jpg)
Audionarratology: Lessons from Radio Drama
Lars Bernaerts and Jarmila Mildorf
![book cover Digital Fiction and the Unnatural book cover](../../assets/covers/9780814214565.jpg)
Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis
Astrid Ensslin and Alice Bell
![book cover Narrative Bonds book cover](../../assets/covers/9780814214633.jpg)
Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel
Alexandra Valint
![book cover Contemporary French and Francophone Narratology book cover](../../assets/covers/9780814214497.jpg)
Contemporary French and Francophone Narratology
Edited by John Pier
![book cover Unnatural Narratology book cover](../../assets/covers/9780814214190.jpg)
Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges
Edited by Jan Alber and Brian Richardsonr
![book cover Debating Rhetorical Narratology book cover](../../assets/covers/9780814214282.jpg)
Debating Rhetorical Narratology: On the Synthetic, Mimetic, and Thematic Aspects of Narrative
Matthew Clark and James Phelan
![book cover book cover](../../assets/covers/9780814214206.jpg)
Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology
Edited by Erin James and Eric Morel
![book cover book cover](../../assets/covers/9780814214077.jpg)
Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction
Elizabeth Alsop
![book cover book cover](../../assets/covers/9780814213698.jpg)
Narratology and Ideology
Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives
Edited by Divya Dwivedi, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Richard Walsh
![book cover book cover](../../assets/covers/9780814213674.jpg)
Novelization
From Film to Novel
Jan Baetens
![book cover book cover](../../assets/covers/9780814213483.jpg)
Reading Conrad
J. Hillis Miller
Edited by John C. Peters and Jakob Lothe
![book cover book cover](../../assets/covers/9780814213544.jpg)
Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States
Edited by James J. Donahue, Jennifer Ann Ho, and Shaun Morgan
![book cover book cover](../../assets/covers/9780814213353.jpg)
Media of Serial Narrative
Frank Kelleter
This series embraces works that examine a wide range of narrative theories and their applications to fictional and nonfictional texts. Inquiries should be directed to Ana Jimenez-Moreno at The Ohio State University Press.
Explore More
If you are interested in exploring additional on-line resources for the study of narrative, the series editors recommend the following links:
- The Society for the Study of Narrative
- Narrative, the official journal for the Society for the Study of Narrative
- Project Narrative at The Ohio State University
- Manfred Jahn’s Guide to Narratology
- James Phelan’s Website
Older Titles in Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
- The Submerged Plot and the Mother’s Pleasure from Jane Austen to Arundhati Roy
Marsh - Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet
Ryan, Foote, and Azaryahu - Narrative Sequence in Contemporary Narratology
Baroni and Revaz, eds. - Unnatural Narrative: Theory, History, and Practice
Richardson - Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions
Warhol and Lanser, eds. - Narrative Paths: African Travel in Modern Fiction and Nonfiction
Mikkonen - Ethics and the Dynamic Observer Narrator: Reckoning with Past and Present in German Literature
Byram - Feminist Narrative Ethics: Tacit Persuasion in Modernist Form
Nash
- The Reader as Peeping Tom: Nonreciprocal Gazing in Narrative Fiction and Film
Hawthorn - Thomas Hardy’s Brains: Psychology, Neurology, and Hardy’s Imagination
Keen - The Return of the Omniscient Narrator: Authorship and Authority in Twenty-First Century Fiction
Dawson - Real Mysteries: Narrative and the Unknowable
Abbott - A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative
Alber, Nielsen, and Richardson, eds. - Narrative Discourse: Authors and Narrators in Literature, Film, and Art
Hogan - Literary Identification from Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga
Green - An Aesthetics of Narrative Performance: Transnational Theater, Literature, and Film in Contemporary Germany
Breger - Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates
Herman, Phelan and Rabinowitz, Richardson, and Warhol - After Testimony: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future
Lothe, Suleiman, and Phelan, eds. - The Vitality of Allegory: Figural Narrative in Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Johnson - Narrative Middles:
Navigating the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Levine and Ortiz-Robles, eds. - Fact, Fiction, and Form:
Selected Essays
Rader - The Real, the True, and the
Told: Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation
Berlatsky - Franz Kafka: Narration,
Rhetoric, and Reading
Lothe, Sandberg, and Speirs, eds. - Postclassical Narratology: Approaches and Analyses
Alber and Fludernik, eds. - Narrative Structures and the Language of the Self
Clark - Social Minds in the Novel
Palmer - Imagining Minds: The Neuro-Aesthetics of Austen, Eliot, and Hardy
Young - Tabloid, Inc.: Crimes,
Newspapers, Narratives
Pelizzon and West - Towards the Ethics of Form in
Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission
Toker - Techniques for Living:
Fiction and Theory in the Work of Christine Brooke-Rose
Lawrence - Narrative Means, Lyric Ends: Temporality in the Nineteenth-Century British
Long Poem
Morgan - Understanding Nationalism: On Narrative, Cognitive Science, and Identity
Hogan - Joseph Conrad: Voice,
Sequence, History, Genre
Lothe, Hawthorn, and Phelan, eds. - The Rhetoric of
Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction
Walsh - Experiencing Fiction:
Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative
Phelan - Unnatural Voices:
Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Richardson - Narrative Causalities
Kafalenos - Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel
Zunshine - I Know That You Know That I Know:
Narrating Subjects from Moll Flanders to Marnie
Butte - Bloodscripts: Writing
the Violent Subject
Gomel - Having a Good Cry: Effeminate
Feelings and Pop-Culture Forms
Warhol - Surprised by Shame:
Dostoevsky's Liars and Narrative Exposure
Martinsen - Narrative Dynamics:
Time, Plot, Closure, and Frames
Richardson, ed. - Politics, Persuasion, and
Pragmatism: A Rhetoric of Feminist Utopian Fiction
Peel - Breaking the Frame:
Metalepsis and the Construction of the Subject
Malina - Telling Tales: Gender and
Narrative Form in Victorian Literature and Culture
Langland - Invisible Author:
Last Essays
Brooke-Rose - Ordinary Pleasures: Couples,
Conversation, and Comedy
Young - Narratologies: New
Perspectives on Narrative Analysis
Herman, ed. - Before Reading: Narrative
Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation
Rabinowitz - Matters of Fact: Reading
Nonfiction over the Edge
Lehman - The Progress of Romance:
Literary Historiography and the Gothic Novel
Richter - A Glance Beyond Doubt:
Narration, Representation, Subjectivity
Rimmon-Kenan - Narrative as Rhetoric:
Technique, Audiences, Ethics, Ideology
Phelan - Misreading Jane Eyre: A Postformalist Paradigm
Beaty - Psychological Politics
of the American Dream: The Commodification of Subjectivity in
Twentieth-Century American Literature
Tyson - Understanding Narrative
Phelan and Rabinowitz, eds. - Framing Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, the Woman Question, and the Victorian Novel
Mandelker - Reading People, Reading
Plots: Character, Progression, and the Interpretation of Narrative (OSU Press electronic edition)
Phelan - Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel (OSU Press electronic edition)
Warhol