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Chapter 5 · The Transition

14. Sources Cited

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14.1 Narratology, criticism and theory

  • Bakhtin, Mikhail. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Edited by Michael Holquist. Translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981. [For the chronotope of the road, §8.9.]
  • Bal, Mieke. Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative. 4th ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.
  • Barthes, Roland. S/Z. Translated by Richard Miller. New York: Hill and Wang, 1974. [French original 1970.]
  • Chatman, Seymour. Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978.
  • Dames, Nicholas. The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023.
  • Genette, Gérard. Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. Translated by Jane E. Lewin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980. [French original 1972.]
  • Genette, Gérard. Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation. Translated by Jane E. Lewin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • Iser, Wolfgang. The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.
  • Rabinowitz, Peter J. Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
  • Sternberg, Meir. Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.

14.2 Film theory

  • Bordwell, David, and Kristin Thompson. Film Art: An Introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill. [Multiple editions; the account of continuity editing and of elliptical editing is consistent across them.]
  • Eisenstein, Sergei. Film Form: Essays in Film Theory. Edited and translated by Jay Leyda. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1949.

14.3 Cognitive and empirical studies of reading

  • Emmott, Catherine. Narrative Comprehension: A Discourse Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
  • Gerrig, Richard J. Experiencing Narrative Worlds: On the Psychological Activities of Reading. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
  • Speer, Nicole K., Jeffrey M. Zacks, and Jeremy R. Reynolds. “Human Brain Activity Time-Locked to Narrative Event Boundaries.” Psychological Science 18, no. 5 (2007).
  • Zacks, Jeffrey M., and Barbara Tversky. “Event Structure in Perception and Conception.” Psychological Bulletin 127, no. 1 (2001).
  • Zwaan, Rolf A. “Processing Narrative Time Shifts.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 22, no. 5 (1996).
  • Zwaan, Rolf A., Mark C. Langston, and Arthur C. Graesser. “The Construction of Situation Models in Narrative Comprehension: An Event-Indexing Model.” Psychological Science 6, no. 5 (1995).
  • Zwaan, Rolf A., and Gabriel A. Radvansky. “Situation Models in Language Comprehension and Memory.” Psychological Bulletin 123, no. 2 (1998): 162–185.

14.4 Craft literature, used as documents of a practice

  • Bickham, Jack M. Scene & Structure. Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest Books, 1993.
  • Burroway, Janet. Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft. Multiple editions.
  • Gardner, John. The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983.
  • Le Guin, Ursula K. Steering the Craft. Revised edition, 2015.
  • 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.

14.5 Primary texts discussed

Passages are quoted briefly for the purposes of criticism and study. Where a work was not written in English, the translation used is named.

  • Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. 1813; Persuasion. 1817.
  • Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. 1847.
  • Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. 1719.
  • Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. 1853.
  • Dos Passos, John. U.S.A. 1930–36.
  • Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Cristo. 1844–46.
  • Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. 1929; Absalom, Absalom! 1936.
  • Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. 1749.
  • Ford, Ford Madox. The Good Soldier. 1915.
  • García Márquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude. 1967. Trans. Gregory Rabassa (1970).
  • Joyce, James. Ulysses. 1922.
  • Proust, Marcel. In Search of Lost Time. 1913–27.
  • Rulfo, Juan. Pedro Páramo. 1955. English versions cited: trans. Lysander Kemp (1959); trans. Margaret Sayers Peden (1994); trans. Douglas J. Weatherford (2023).
  • Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. 1939.
  • Stoker, Bram. Dracula. 1897.
  • Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. 1878. English versions consulted: trans. Constance Garnett; trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (2000); trans. Rosamund Bartlett (2014). The Death of Ivan Ilyich. 1886.
  • Woolf, Virginia. Mrs Dalloway. 1925; To the Lighthouse. 1927.

14.6 Second-edition sources (Core chapter)

The Core chapter adds the following works. Each factual claim about them was checked against the source named in Editorial/Examples Register.md.

  • Egan, Jennifer. A Visit from the Goon Squad. 2010.
  • Hawkins, Paula. The Girl on the Train. 2015.
  • Mandel, Emily St. John. Station Eleven. 2014.
  • Nicholls, David. One Day. 2009.
  • Up. Directed by Pete Docter. Pixar Animation Studios, 2009. Score by Michael Giacchino.
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. 1968; with Arthur C. Clarke’s novel of the same year.