This is a book about the human propensity to think about and experience the world through
stories.'Why do we have stories?','How do stories create meaning for us?', and 'How is …

Focalization, the filtering of a story through a consciousness prior to and/or embedded within
its narratorial mediation, is a fundamental analytical concept in narrative theory. 1 It allows …

My title is frankly presumptuous. To imply that reflection on narrative in poetry begins here
and now, with this essay, is to dismiss out of hand a huge body of precedent. Narrative …

Deborah Beck's research focuses on various aspects of Homeric speech and storytelling.
She is the author of Homeric Conversation (Harvard, 2005) and is currently at work on a …

Cet ouvrage d'introduction à la narratologie aborde la question de la narrativité dans une
double perspective théorique: la sémantique de l'action et la narratologie. En effet, s' il est …

Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize
perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept. For …

One might as well begin with the observation that narratives are one of the most powerful
ways of worldmaking. The main reason for this is that storytelling not only generates …

Something mystifying about narrative engagement, be it with novels, plays, video games, or
films, is that it does not work in the same way for any two readers, audience members, or …

Drawing on research by, among others, Monika Fludernik, Marie-Laure Ryan, and previous
publications by the author, the present article outlines the foundations of a transmedial …

Proposing a rhetorical definition of fictionality as intentionally signaled invention in
communication, this article shows how a historical investigation of fictionality can inform our …