Narrative articles

Recent articles from Narrative

The narrative turn and the how of narrative inquiry.(Editor's Column)(Editorial)
January 1, 2009... As many readers of Narrative know, the scholarly organization that sponsors this journal has changed its name from the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature to the International Society for the Study of Narrative. This change is not designed to announce a radical break with the past...

Beginning to think about narrative in poetry.(Essay)
January 1, 2009... 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 theorists have been thinking deeply about poetic narratives since ancient times. Arguably, there would be no...

Backwards.(Essay)
January 1, 2009... Life can only be understood backwards; but must be lived forwards.--Soren Kierkegaard What was yet to come would also be a memory.--Carlos Fuentes Memory implies a certain act of redemption. What is remembered has been saved from nothingness. What is forgotten has been...

Cheap plot tricks, plot holes, and narrative design.(Essay)
January 1, 2009... In narrative, plot exists on two levels: the plotting of the author, who creates the storyline; and the plotting of the characters, who set goals, devise plans, schemes and conspiracies, and try to arrange events to their advantage. The plotting of both author and characters is meant to...

The mother's unnarratable pleasure and the submerged plot of Persuasion.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2009... What do we know about Anne Elliot's mother? The narrator's extremely brief account seems to leave little room for speculation, as she appears never to have deviated far from the norms associated with the time, place, and circumstances in which she lived. Yet even before Anne is introduced to...