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.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Traditional Questions2. New QuestionsChapter 1Before and Surrounding Structuralism1. Story and Plot2. Telling and Showing3. Author and Narrator4. Narrator and Reader5. Consciousness and Speech6. Perception and SpeechChapter 2Structuralism1. Story1.1. Events1.2. Actants1.3. Setting2. Narrative2.1. Time2.2. Character2.3. Focalization3. Narration3.1. Narrating3.2. Consciousness RepresentationChapter 3Postclassical Narratology1. Broadening Conceptions of the Narrative Text1.1. Broadening the Medium: Intermediality1.2. Broadening in Time: Diachronic Narratology1.3. Broadening the Fictional World2. Communicative Approaches2.1. Rhetorical Narratology2.2. Cognitive Narratology3. Narratology and Ideology3.1. Narrative Ethics3.2. Feminist and Queer Narratology3.3. Postcolonial Narratology3.4. Cultural Narratology and Socio-narratology4. Everyday Life as a Narrative Process4.1. Postmodern Narratology4.2. Natural Narratology4.3. Unnatural NarratologyAppendix A: ""Pegasian"" by Charlotte MutsaersAppendix B: ""The Map"" by Gerrit KrolAppendix C: ""City"" by WascoNotesBibliographyIndex

“A comprehensive and coherent account of narratology, [Handbook of Narrative Analysis] is engaging and readable and explicitly oriented toward the reader’s experience.”-Sabine Gross, Monatshefte

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.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Traditional Questions2. New QuestionsChapter 1Before and Surrounding Structuralism1. Story and Plot2. Telling and Showing3. Author and Narrator4. Narrator and Reader5. Consciousness and Speech6. Perception and SpeechChapter 2Structuralism1. Story1.1. Events1.2. Actants1.3. Setting2. Narrative2.1. Time2.2. Character2.3. Focalization3. Narration3.1. Narrating3.2. Consciousness RepresentationChapter 3Postclassical Narratology1. Broadening Conceptions of the Narrative Text1.1. Broadening the Medium: Intermediality1.2. Broadening in Time: Diachronic Narratology1.3. Broadening the Fictional World2. Communicative Approaches2.1. Rhetorical Narratology2.2. Cognitive Narratology3. Narratology and Ideology3.1. Narrative Ethics3.2. Feminist and Queer Narratology3.3. Postcolonial Narratology3.4. Cultural Narratology and Socio-narratology4. Everyday Life as a Narrative Process4.1. Postmodern Narratology4.2. Natural Narratology4.3. Unnatural NarratologyAppendix A: ""Pegasian"" by Charlotte MutsaersAppendix B: ""The Map"" by Gerrit KrolAppendix C: ""City"" by WascoNotesBibliographyIndex

“A comprehensive and coherent account of narratology, [Handbook of Narrative Analysis] is engaging and readable and explicitly oriented toward the reader’s experience.”-Sabine Gross, Monatshefte

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.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Traditional Questions2. New QuestionsChapter 1Before and Surrounding Structuralism1. Story and Plot2. Telling and Showing3. Author and Narrator4. Narrator and Reader5. Consciousness and Speech6. Perception and SpeechChapter 2Structuralism1. Story1.1. Events1.2. Actants1.3. Setting2. Narrative2.1. Time2.2. Character2.3. Focalization3. Narration3.1. Narrating3.2. Consciousness RepresentationChapter 3Postclassical Narratology1. Broadening Conceptions of the Narrative Text1.1. Broadening the Medium: Intermediality1.2. Broadening in Time: Diachronic Narratology1.3. Broadening the Fictional World2. Communicative Approaches2.1. Rhetorical Narratology2.2. Cognitive Narratology3. Narratology and Ideology3.1. Narrative Ethics3.2. Feminist and Queer Narratology3.3. Postcolonial Narratology3.4. Cultural Narratology and Socio-narratology4. Everyday Life as a Narrative Process4.1. Postmodern Narratology4.2. Natural Narratology4.3. Unnatural NarratologyAppendix A: ""Pegasian"" by Charlotte MutsaersAppendix B: ""The Map"" by Gerrit KrolAppendix C: ""City"" by WascoNotesBibliographyIndex

“A comprehensive and coherent account of narratology, [Handbook of Narrative Analysis] is engaging and readable and explicitly oriented toward the reader’s experience.”-Sabine Gross, Monatshefte