14.1 Criticism, narratology and theory
- Aristotle. Poetics. c. 335 BCE. Available in Classical Literary Criticism, translated by Penelope Murray and T. S. Dorsch. London: Penguin, 2000.
- Bakhtin, Mikhail. Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics. Translated by Caryl Emerson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
- Barthes, Roland. S/Z. Translated by Richard Miller. New York: Hill and Wang, 1974. [French original 1970.]
- Barthes, Roland. “Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives.” In Image–Music–Text, translated by Stephen Heath. London: Fontana, 1977. [French original 1966.]
- Brooks, Peter. Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
- Burke, Kenneth. Counter-Statement. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1931.
- Burke, Kenneth. A Grammar of Motives. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1945.
- Chatman, Seymour. Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978.
- Genette, Gérard. Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. Translated by Jane E. Lewin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980.
- McGurl, Mark. The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folktale. Translated by Laurence Scott. 2nd ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968. [Russian original 1928.]
- Shklovsky, Viktor. “Art as Device.” 1917. In Theory of Prose, translated by Benjamin Sher. Elmwood Park, IL: Dalkey Archive, 1990.
- Sternberg, Meir. Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.
- Todorov, Tzvetan. The Poetics of Prose. Translated by Richard Howard. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977. [French original 1971.]
14.2 Cognitive and empirical studies of reading
- Graesser, Arthur C., Murray Singer, and Tom Trabasso. “Constructing Inferences During Narrative Text Comprehension.” Psychological Review 101, no. 3 (1994): 371–395.
- Trabasso, Tom, and Paul van den Broek. “Causal Thinking and the Representation of Narrative Events.” Journal of Memory and Language 24 (1985).
- Zwaan, Rolf A., and Gabriel A. Radvansky. “Situation Models in Language Comprehension and Memory.” Psychological Bulletin 123, no. 2 (1998): 162–185.
14.3 Craft literature, used as documents of a practice
- Bickham, Jack M. Scene & Structure. Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest Books, 1993.
- Forster, E. M. Aspects of the Novel. London: Edward Arnold, 1927.
- McKee, Robert. Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting. New York: ReganBooks, 1997.
- Swain, Dwight V. Techniques of the Selling Writer. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965.
- Yorke, John. Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey into Story. London: Particular Books, 2013.
14.4 Primary texts discussed
Passages are quoted briefly for the purposes of criticism and study. Where a work was not written in English, the translation is named where a texture claim depends on it.
- Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale. 1985.
- Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. 1813.
- Beckett, Samuel. Molloy. 1951; The Unnamable. 1953.
- Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. 1847.
- Camus, Albert. L’Étranger. 1942.
- Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote. 1605, 1615.
- Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. 1861; Bleak House. 1853.
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. 1866. English versions consulted: trans. Constance Garnett; trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky; trans. Michael R. Katz.
- Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Cristo. 1844–46.
- García Márquez, Gabriel. Chronicle of a Death Foretold. 1981.
- Goncharov, Ivan. Oblomov. 1859.
- Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the d’Urbervilles. 1891.
- Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. 1961.
- Hemingway, Ernest. “Hills Like White Elephants.” 1927.
- Herbert, Frank. Dune. 1965.
- Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. 1989.
- McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian. 1985.
- Melville, Herman. “Bartleby, the Scrivener.” 1853.
- Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. 1939.
- Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. 1878; The Death of Ivan Ilyich. 1886.
- Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 1884.
- Woolf, Virginia. Mrs Dalloway. 1925.
14.5 Added in the second edition (Core chapter)
Used in the Core chapter, Scene and Sequel, and recorded in the examples register.
- Keegan, Claire. Small Things Like These. London: Faber & Faber, 2021.
- King, Stephen. 11/22/63. New York: Scribner, 2011.
- Tóibín, Colm. Brooklyn. London: Viking, 2009.
- Weir, Andy. The Martian. Self-published, 2011; New York: Crown, 2014.
- Mad Max: Fury Road. Directed by George Miller. Warner Bros., 2015.
- Manchester by the Sea. Written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan. 2016.