Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory

Paul Dawson is the author of two monographs, The Return of the Omniscient Narrator: Authorship and Authority in Twenty-First Century Fiction (2013) and Creative Writing and the New Humanities (Routledge, 2005). Paul is also a poet and the author of Imagining Winter (2006). He teaches Literary Studies and Creative Writing at the University of New South Wales, Australia.Maria Mäkelä is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Tampere University, Finland. Her publications deal with storification and the storytelling boom; the neoliberal logic of narrative and fiction; exemplarity; consciousness, voice, and realism across media; the literary tradition of adultery; authorial ethos; and critical applications of postclassical narratologies.

• Introduction - Narrative Today: Telling Stories in a Post-Truth World Paul Dawson (University of New South Wales) and Maria Mäkelä (Tampere University)I Narrative and Its Others1. My Story, Your Narrative: Scholarly Terms and Popular Usage Maria Mäkelä (Tampere University) and Samuli Björninen (Tampere University) 2. Non-Narrative Genres: Exposition, Lists, Lyric, etc Monika Fludernik (University of Freiburg) 3. Narrative and Economic Modelling Lindsay Holmgren (McGill University) 4. Data Narratives: Visualization and Interactivity in Representations of Covid-19Madeleine Sorapure (UC Santa Barbara) II Narrative and the Public Sphere5. What is ‘the Narrative’? Conspiracy Theories and Journalistic Emplotment in the Age of Social Media Paul Dawson (University of New South Wales) 6. Rodney King, The Fugitive, and the Cogency of Cultural NarrativesAlan Nadel (University of Kentucky) 7. Personal Storytelling in Social Movements Francesca Polleta (University of California Irvine)III Narrative and Social Media8. Co-tellership in Social Media Storytelling Ruth Page (University of Birmingham) 9. (Small) Stories as Features on Social Media: Toward Formatted StorytellingAlex Georgakopoulou (King’s College London) 10. Quantified Storytelling: How the Tellable and the Countable Intermingle on Digital PlatformsAlex Georgakopoulou (King’s College London), Stefan Iversen (Aarhus University), and Carsten Stage (Aarhus University) 11. Networks, Interfaces, Digital Media Infrastructure, and Their Implications for Fictional World TheoryDan Punday (Mississippi State University) IV Narrative Truth12. Legal Facts, Affective Truths, and Changing Narratives in Trials Involving Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein and #MeTooGreta Olson (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen) 13. My Mouth, Your Story: On Co-Witnessing Irene Kacandes (Dartmouth College)14. Playing Games with the Truth: Tabloid Stories, Urban Legends, Tall Tales, and Bullshit Marie-Laure Ryan (independent scholar) V Narrative and the Novel15. The Undead Novel: A History of Realism or a History of Prose Fiction?Paul Dawson (University of New South Wales) 16. This is Not a Novel: Some Varieties of Anti-Novel Brian McHale (The Ohio State University) 17. Panexperientiality, Media, and Narrative’s Time Management ProblemDavid Ciccoricco (University of Otago) 18. Chinese Narratology: Tradition, Developments, and PerspectivesBiwu Shang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)VI Narrative and Selfhood19. Life and Narrative Hanna Meretoja (University of Turku) 20. Just the Facts? Nonfictionality and Life Writing Julie Rak (University of Alberta) 21. Toward a Rhetorical Narrative Medicine: Or, Corpus, Close Reading, and the Cases of Oates’s "Hospice/Honeymoon" and Ward’s "On Witness and Respair"James Phelan (The Ohio State University) 22. Reading Celebrity Autofiction: Fictionality, Authorship, and Reader Responses in Narrative TheoryAlison Gibbons (Sheffield Hallam University)VII Narrative and Social Change 23. It Gets Better vs. To This Day: Queerness, Causality, Narrativity Jesse Matz (Kenyon College) 24. What Does It Mean to #BelieveWomen? Popular Feminism and Survivor Narratives Tanya Serisier (Birbeck, University of London) 25. Narrating Eighteenth-Century Black Lives: Abolition and the Politics of FormSusan S. Lanser (Brandeis University) VIII Narrative and Cognition26. Human Cognition and Narrative Form Richard Walsh (University of York) 27. Adaptationism, Postmodernism, and a Biocultural NarratologyH. Porter Abbott (University of California, Santa Babara) 28. The Experience of Narrative: Aesthetics and Embodiment Karin Kukkonen (University of Oslo)IX Narrative and Complex Systems29. Video Games as Complex Narratives and Embodied MetalepsisAstrid Ensslin (University of Bergen) 30. Perspectives on Causality in Sciences and Arts: On the Limits and Benefits of Narrative Representation Marina Grishakova (University of Tartu) 31. Concepts and Aspects of an Integrated Narrative Generation Approach Based on Post-Narratology Takashi Ogata (Iwate Prefectural University)32. Storytelling and Narrative Capital in Organizations: Bringing Boje and Bourdieu into Conversation Klarissa Lueg (University of Southern Denmark) X Narrative and International Relations33. Narrative in Politics and the Politics of Narrative Monika Barthwal-Datta (University of New South Wales), Roxani Krystalli (University of St Andrews), and Laura J. Shepherd (University of Sydney)34. The Narrative Turn in European Studies: A Synergic Approach Luis Bouza Garcia (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) and Carmen Sancho Guinda (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)35. Migration and Narrative DynamicsRoy Sommer (University of Wuppertal)36. Deconstructing the ‘Hollow Man’: Visual Narrative Analysis and World PoliticsKatja Freistein (University of Duisburg-Essen) and Frank Gadinger (University of Duisburg-Essen) XI Narrative and the Environment37. Fables for Tomorrow: Narrating Net Zero Genevieve Lively (University of Bristol) 38. Storying the Anthropocene: Narrative Challenges and Opportunities in Times of Climate Change Marco Caracciolo (Ghent University)39. Narrative’s Environments Eric Morel (University of Delaware)