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Luc Herman is a professor of American literature and narrative theory at the University of Antwerp. He is the coauthor and coeditor of books on Thomas Pynchon and is the coeditor with Bart Vervaeck, Lars Bernaerts, and Dirk De Geest of
Stories and Minds: Cognitive Approaches to Literary Narrative (Nebraska, 2013).
Bart Vervaeck is a professor of Dutch literature and narrative theory at the University of Leuven. He is the author of monographs on postmodern fiction and on literary descents into hell.
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List of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Traditional Questions
2. New Questions
Chapter 1. Before and Surrounding Structuralism
1. Story and Plot
2. Telling and Showing
3. Author and Narrator
4. Narrator and Reader
5. Consciousness and Speech
6. Perception and Speech
Chapter 2. Structuralism
1. Story
1.1. Events
1.2. Actants
1.3. Setting
2. Narrative
2.1. Time
2.2. Character
2.3. Focalization
3. Narration
3.1. Narrating
3.2. Consciousness Representation
Chapter 3. Postclassical Narratology
1. Broadening Conceptions of the Narrative Text
1.1. Broadening the Medium: Intermedial Narratology
1.2. Broadening in Time: Diachronic Narratology
1.3. Broadening the Fictional World
2. Communicative Approaches
2.1. Rhetorical Narratology
2.2. Cognitive Narratology
3. Narratology and Ideology
3.1. Narrative Ethics
3.2. Feminist and Queer Narratology
3.3. Postcolonial Narratology
3.4. Cultural Narratology and Socio-narratology
3.4.1. Socio-narratology
3.4.2. Cultural Narratology
4. Everyday Life as a Narrative Process
4.1. Postmodern Narratology
4.2. Natural Narratology
4.3. Unnatural Narratology
Appendix A: “Pegasian”
Charlotte Mutsaers
Appendix B: “The Map”
Gerrit Krol
Appendix C: “City”
Wasco
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Luc Herman is a professor of American literature and narrative theory at the University of Antwerp. He is the coauthor and coeditor of books on Thomas Pynchon and is the coeditor with Bart Vervaeck, Lars Bernaerts, and Dirk De Geest of
Stories and Minds: Cognitive Approaches to Literary Narrative (Nebraska, 2013).
Bart Vervaeck is a professor of Dutch literature and narrative theory at the University of Leuven. He is the author of monographs on postmodern fiction and on literary descents into hell.
Summary
Stories are everywhere, from fiction across media to politics and personal identity. Handbook of Narrative Analysis sorts out both traditional and recent narrative theories, providing the necessary skills to interpret any story.
