Narrative articles from May 2006

Narrative archives from May 2006

Wayne C. Booth (1921-2005).(Obituary)
May 1, 2006... As most readers of this journal will know by now, Wayne C. Booth passed away in October of 2005. We will do a special issue of Narrative on his legacy for the field of narrative studies that is now planned for Spring 2007. Here I offer a...

Omniscience for atheists: or, Jane Austen's infallible narrator.
May 1, 2006... The comparison of the traditional novelist to God has received many memorable formulations. While Flaubert and Joyce emphasize the author's ubiquity, invisibility, or silence, the quality usually adduced for comparison is omniscience, as in...

"Anti-Bleak House": advertising and the Victorian novel.
May 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION Allow me to begin by deferring all questions concerning the value of the archive, the uses and abuses of historical materialism, and problems of method in general; these questions will return, no doubt, but for now I would...

Charted territory: Canadian literature by women, the genealogical plot, and sky lee's disappearing moon cafe.
May 1, 2006... On the copyright page of Lives of Girls and Women, published in 1972, author Alice Munro has included a caveat: "This novel is autobiographical in form but not in fact" (iv). While Munro's note clearly encourages analysis of the novel in terms...

Narrative identity and narrative imperialism: a response to Galen Strawson and James Phelan.
May 1, 2006... What is narrative identity? In an article I published in this journal two years ago, I defined it as "the notion that what we are is a story of some kind." Before investigating its social and somatic sources, I added that I regarded this idea...

Semantics, pragmatics, and narrativity: a response to David Rudrum.(DIALOGUE)
May 1, 2006... In his article "From Narrative Representation to Narrative Use: Towards the Limits of Definition," David Rudrum argues that definitions of narrative based on what the text represents are fundamentally flawed: "As long as narratology remains...

On the very idea of a definition of narrative: a reply to Marie-Laure Ryan.(DIALOGUE)
May 1, 2006... I "Quid est ergo tempus?", St. Augustine famously asked. "Si nemo ex me quaerat scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio". These words, which strike me as some of the most deeply honest and self-aware of his Confessions, describe an...