InhaltsangabeNotes on Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction. PROLOGUE PART I: NEW LIGHT ON STUBBORN PROBLEMS PART II: REVISIONS AND INNOVATIONS PART III: NARRATIVE FORM AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO HISTORY, POLITICS, AND ETHICS PART IV: BEYOND LITERARY NARRATIVE EPILOGUE Glossary. Index

James Phelan is Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is the editor of the journal Narrative and the author of several books in narrative theory, the most recent of which are Narrative as Rhetoric (1996) and Living to Tell About It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration (2005). Peter J. Rabinowitz is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College. His previous publications include Before Reading (1987) and Authorizing Readers (coauthored with Michael Smith, 1998). He is also a music critic and serves as a contributing editor of Fanfare. Phelan and Rabinowitz are coeditors of the Ohio State University Press series on the Theory and Interpretation of Narrative.

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Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction. PROLOGUE PART I: NEW LIGHT ON STUBBORN PROBLEMS PART II: REVISIONS AND INNOVATIONS PART III: NARRATIVE FORM AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO HISTORY, POLITICS, AND ETHICS PART IV: BEYOND LITERARY NARRATIVE EPILOGUE Glossary. Index