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N ARRATIVE T HEORY EDITED BY JAMES PHELAN AND PETER J. RABINOWITZ A Companion to Narrative Theory Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Thisseriesofferscomprehensive,newlywrittensurveysofkeyperiodsandmovements and certain major authors, in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes provide new perspectivesand positions on contexts and on canonical and postcanoni- cal texts, orientating the beginning student in new fields of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the field. 1 ACompaniontoRomanticism EditedbyDuncanWu 2 ACompaniontoVictorianLiteratureandCulture EditedbyHerbertF.Tucker 3 ACompaniontoShakespeare EditedbyDavidScottKastan 4 ACompaniontotheGothic EditedbyDavidPunter 5 AFeministCompaniontoShakespeare EditedbyDympnaCallaghan 6 ACompaniontoChaucer EditedbyPeterBrown 7 ACompaniontoLiteraturefromMiltontoBlake EditedbyDavidWomersley 8 ACompaniontoEnglishRenaissanceLiteratureandCulture EditedbyMichaelHattaway 9 ACompaniontoMilton EditedbyThomasN.Corns 10 ACompaniontoTwentieth-CenturyPoetry EditedbyNeilRoberts 11 ACompaniontoAnglo-SaxonLiteratureandCulture EditedbyPhillipPulsiano andElaineTreharne 12 ACompaniontoRestorationDrama EditedbySusanJ.Owen 13 ACompaniontoEarlyModernWomen’sWriting EditedbyAnitaPacheco 14 ACompaniontoRenaissanceDrama EditedbyArthurF.Kinney 15 ACompaniontoVictorianPoetry EditedbyRichardCronin,Alison Chapman,andAntonyH.Harrison 16 ACompaniontotheVictorianNovel EditedbyPatrickBrantlinger andWilliamB.Thesing 17–20 ACompaniontoShakespeare’sWorks:VolumesI–IV EditedbyRichardDutton andJeanE.Howard 21 ACompaniontotheRegionalLiteraturesofAmerica EditedbyCharlesL.Crow 22 ACompaniontoRhetoricandRhetoricalCriticism EditedbyWalterJostandWendyOlmsted 23 ACompaniontotheLiteratureandCultureofthe AmericanSouth EditedbyRichardGrayandOwenRobinson 24 ACompaniontoAmericanFiction1780–1865 EditedbyShirleySamuels 25 ACompaniontoAmericanFiction1865–1914 EditedbyRobertPaulLamb andG.R.Thompson 26 ACompaniontoDigitalHumanities EditedbySusanSchreibman,Ray Siemens,andJohnUnsworth 27 ACompaniontoRomance EditedbyCorinneSaunders 28 ACompaniontotheBritishandIrishNovel1945–2000 EditedbyBrianW.Shaffer 29 ACompaniontoTwentieth-CenturyAmericanDrama EditedbyDavidKrasner 30 ACompaniontotheEighteenth-CenturyNovelandCulture EditedbyPaulaR.Backscheider andCatherineIngrassia 31 ACompaniontoOldNorse-IcelandicLiteratureandCulture EditedbyRoryMcTurk 32 ACompaniontoTragedy EditedbyRebeccaBushnell 33 ACompaniontoNarrativeTheory EditedbyJamesPhelanandPeterJ.Rabinowitz N ARRATIVE T HEORY EDITED BY JAMES PHELAN AND PETER J. RABINOWITZ (cid:1)2005byBlackwellPublishingLtd exceptforeditorialmaterialandorganization(cid:1)2005byJamesPhelanandPeter J.Rabinowitzandchapter33(cid:1)2005PeggyPhelan BLACKWELLPUBLISHING 350MainStreet,Malden,MA02148-5020,USA 9600GarsingtonRoad,OxfordOX42DQ,UK 550SwanstonStreet,Carlton,Victoria3053,Australia TherightofJamesPhelanandPeterJ.RabinowitztobeidentifiedastheAuthorsoftheEditorial MaterialinthisWorkhasbeenassertedinaccordancewiththeUKCopyright,Designs,and PatentsAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,or transmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingor otherwise,exceptaspermittedbytheUKCopyright,Designs,andPatentsAct1988,withoutthe priorpermissionofthepublisher. Firstpublished2005byBlackwellPublishingLtd 12005 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Acompaniontonarrativetheory/editedbyJamesPhelanandPeterJ.Rabinowitz. p.cm.—(Blackwellcompanionstoliteratureandculture;33) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN-13:978-1-4051-1476-9 ISBN-10:1-4051-1476-2 1.Narration(Rhetoric)I.Phelan,James,1951–II.Rabinowitz,PeterJ.,1944–III.Series. PN212.C642005 808—dc22 2004025184 AcataloguerecordforthistitleisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. Setin11/13ptGaramond3 bySPIPublisherServices,Pondicherry,India PrintedandboundinIndia byReplikaPressPvt.Ltd,Kundli Thepublisher’spolicyistousepermanentpaperfrommillsthatoperateasustainableforestry policy,andwhichhasbeenmanufacturedfrompulpprocessedusingacid-freeandelementary chlorine-freepractices.Furthermore,thepublisherensuresthatthetextpaperandcoverboardused havemetacceptableenvironmentalaccreditationstandards. Forfurtherinformationon BlackwellPublishing,visitourwebsite: www.blackwellpublishing.com To our students Contents Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Narrative Theory 1 James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz Prologue 1 Histories of Narrative Theory (I): A Genealogy of Early Developments 19 David Herman 2 Histories of Narrative Theory (II): From Structuralism to the Present 36 Monika Fludernik 3 Ghosts and Monsters: On the (Im)Possibility of Narrating the History of Narrative Theory 60 Brian McHale PART I New Light on Stubborn Problems 73 4 Resurrection of the Implied Author: Why Bother? 75 Wayne C. Booth 5 Reconceptualizing Unreliable Narration: Synthesizing Cognitive and Rhetorical Approaches 89 Ansgar F. Nu¨nning Contents vii 6 Authorial Rhetoric, Narratorial (Un)Reliability, Divergent Readings: Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata 108 Tamar Yacobi 7 Henry James and ‘‘Focalization,’’ or Why James Loves Gyp 124 J. Hillis Miller 8 What Narratology and Stylistics Can Do for Each Other 136 Dan Shen 9 The Pragmatics of Narrative Fictionality 150 Richard Walsh PART II Revisions and Innovations 165 10 Beyond the Poetics of Plot: Alternative Forms of Narrative Progression and the Multiple Trajectories of Ulysses 167 Brian Richardson 11 They Shoot Tigers, Don’t They?: Path and Counterpoint in The Long Goodbye 181 Peter J. Rabinowitz 12 Spatial Poetics and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things 192 Susan Stanford Friedman 13 The ‘‘I’’ of the Beholder: Equivocal Attachments and the Limits of Structuralist Narratology 206 Susan S. Lanser 14 Neonarrative; or, How to Render the Unnarratable in Realist Fiction and Contemporary Film 220 Robyn R. Warhol 15 Self-consciousness as a Narrative Feature and Force: Tellers vs. Informants in Generic Design 232 Meir Sternberg 16 Effects of Sequence, Embedding, and Ekphrasis in Poe’s ‘‘The Oval Portrait’’ 253 Emma Kafalenos viii Contents 17 Mrs. Dalloway’s Progeny: The Hours as Second-degree Narrative 269 Seymour Chatman PART III Narrative Form and its Relationship to History, Politics, and Ethics 283 18 Genre, Repetition, Temporal Order: Some Aspects of Biblical Narratology 285 David H. Richter 19 Why Won’t Our Terms Stay Put? The Narrative Communication Diagram Scrutinized and Historicized 299 Harry E. Shaw 20 Gender and History in Narrative Theory: The Problem of Retrospective Distance in David Copperfield and Bleak House 312 Alison Case 21 Narrative Judgments and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative: Ian McEwan’s Atonement 322 James Phelan 22 The Changing Faces of Mount Rushmore: Collective Portraiture and Participatory National Heritage 337 Alison Booth 23 The Trouble with Autobiography: Cautionary Notes for Narrative Theorists 356 Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson 24 On a Postcolonial Narratology 372 Gerald Prince 25 Modernist Soundscapes and the Intelligent Ear: An Approach to Narrative Through Auditory Perception 382 Melba Cuddy-Keane 26 In Two Voices, or: Whose Life/Death/Story Is It, Anyway? 399 Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan PART IV Beyond Literary Narrative 413 27 Narrative in and of the Law 415 Peter Brooks
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