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

Slow Narrative across Media

Edited by Marco Caracciolo and Ella Mingazova

With Bodies book cover

With Bodies: Narrative Theory and Embodied Cognition

Marco Caracciolo and Karin Kukkonen

Audionarratology book cover

Audionarratology: Lessons from Radio Drama

Lars Bernaerts and Jarmila Mildorf

Unnatural Narratology book cover

Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges

Edited by Jan Alber and Brian Richardsonr

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Narratology and Ideology
Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives

Edited by Divya Dwivedi, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Richard Walsh

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Reading Conrad

J. Hillis Miller
Edited by John C. Peters and Jakob Lothe

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Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States

Edited by James J. Donahue, Jennifer Ann Ho, and Shaun Morgan

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Somebody Telling Somebody Else

A Rhetorical Poetics of Narrative

James Phelan

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Suture and Narrative

Deep Intersubjectivity in Fiction and Film

George Butte

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The Writer in the Well

On Misreading and Rewriting Literature

Gary Weissman


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. (Download series flyer)

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