"Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives, edited by Divya Dwivedi, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Richard Walsh, brings together many of the most prominent figures at the interface between narratology and postcolonial criticism. While narrative theory has for …
Narratology & Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives, edited by Divya Dwivedi, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Richard Walsh, brings together many of the most prominent figures at the interface between narratology and postcolonial criticism. While na…
"Reads key South Asian texts and looks at the intersection between narrative theory and postcolonial criticism, showing how narrative theory can be applied in service of postcolonial criticism and how attention to postcolonial fictions can challenge and refine our theoretical un…
Somebody telling somebody else: authors, resources, audiences -- Somebody telling somebody else: audiences and probable impossibilities -- Probability in fiction and nonfiction: pride and prejudice and the year of magical thinking -- Engaging the stubborn: narrative speed and re…
In Somebody Telling Somebody Else: A Rhetorical Poetics of Narrative, James Phelan proposes a paradigm shift for narrative theory, a turn from viewing narrative as a structure to viewing it as a rhetorical action in which a teller selectively deploys the resources of storytellin…
