Literary studies still lack an extensive comparative analysis of different kinds of literature, including ancient and non-Western. How Literary Worlds Are Shaped. A Comparative Poetics of Literary Ima
Narratology has been flourishing in recent years thanks to investigations into a broad spectrum of narratives, at the same time diversifying its theoretical and disciplinary scope as it has sought to
How Literary Worlds Are Shaped studies a wide variety of literature across cultures and ages. The main aim is to show that literature all over the world has for millennia employed an array of related
Audionarratology is a new 'postclassical' narratology that explores interfaces of sound, voice, music and narrative in different media and across disciplinary boundaries. This is the first book to bri
This monograph presents a prototype theory-based approach to the graphic novel as a narrating genre. After a historical contextualization, the graphic novel is defined through the core feature of comp
Over the last two decades, the notion of make-believe has become a major theory for the understanding of representational arts in general. As a contribution to this development, the current volume pro
Scholars of literature, film, and music examine two current manifestations in the study of narrative. Their topics include the selection and concretization of elements in verbal and filmic narration,
This study offers a fresh approach to the theory and practice of poetry criticism from a narratological perspective. Arguing that lyric poems share basic constituents with narrative fiction, the autho
Caracciolo draws on research into real minds to find insights into the psychological processes of fictional characters and the textual strategies for presenting them, as well as into the psychological
This essay collection examines the theory and history of graphic narrative as one of the most interesting and versatile forms of narrative beyond traditional literary texts. Analyzing a wide range of
North American and European scholars explore how blending theory, developed in psychology, can inform narratology. Among their topics are constructing literary character and perspective, Don Quixote's
How does narratology relate to narrative strangeness? This question is urgent for narratologists who share a marked skepticism towards the idea of using ‘natural’ narratives as some kind of genetic mo
The 11 texts relate philosophical perspective on time to literary theory's attempts to clarify how time appears, functions, and is construed in and by narratives. The idea is to group seminal texts in
