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.

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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