Towards a 'Natural' Narratology (Paperback, Reprint)

Preface, Acknowledgements, Prologue in the wilderness, 1 Towards a `natural' narratology, 2 Natural narrative and other oral modes, 3 From the oral to the written: narrative structure before the novel, 4 The realist paradigm: consciousness, mimesis and the reading of the `real', 5 Reflectorization and figuralization: the malleability of language, 6 Virgin territories: the strategic expansion of deictic options, 7 Games with tellers, telling and told, 8 Natural Narratology, In lieu of an epilogue, Notes, Reference, Texts, Criticism, Author index, Subject index