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Chapter 13 · The Viewpoint Shift

14. Sources Cited

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14.1 Narratology and criticism

  • Bal, Mieke. Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative. 4th ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. [First edition 1985.]
  • Bakhtin, Mikhail. Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics. Translated by Caryl Emerson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
  • Banfield, Ann. Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.
  • Booth, Wayne C. The Rhetoric of Fiction. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. [First edition 1961.]
  • Booth, Wayne C. “Distance and Point-of-View: An Essay in Classification.” Essays in Criticism 11, no. 1 (1961): 60–79.
  • Bordwell, David. Narration in the Fiction Film. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.
  • Chatman, Seymour. Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978.
  • Chatman, Seymour. Coming to Terms: The Rhetoric of Narrative in Fiction and Film. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. [Slant and filter.]
  • Cohn, Dorrit. Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.
  • Forster, E. M. Aspects of the Novel. London: Edward Arnold, 1927.
  • Friedman, Norman. “Point of View in Fiction: The Development of a Critical Concept.” PMLA 70, no. 5 (1955): 1160–1184.
  • Genette, Gérard. Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. Translated by Jane E. Lewin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980. [French original 1972.]
  • James, Henry. The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces. Edited by R. P. Blackmur. New York: Scribner, 1934.
  • Lubbock, Percy. The Craft of Fiction. London: Jonathan Cape, 1921.
  • Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith. Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics. London: Methuen, 1983.
  • Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism.” Critical Inquiry 12, no. 1 (1985): 243–261.
  • Stanzel, Franz K. A Theory of Narrative. Translated by Charlotte Goedsche. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
  • Sternberg, Meir. Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.
  • Uspensky, Boris. A Poetics of Composition. Translated by Valentina Zavarin and Susan Wittig. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.
  • Woloch, Alex. The One vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Realist Novel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
  • Wood, James. How Fiction Works. London: Jonathan Cape, 2008.

14.2 Cognitive and empirical studies of reading

  • Duchan, Judith F., Gail A. Bruder, and Lynne E. Hewitt, eds. Deixis in Narrative: A Cognitive Science Perspective. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995.
  • Emmott, Catherine. Narrative Comprehension: A Discourse Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
  • Keen, Suzanne. Empathy and the Novel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • Kidd, David Comer, and Emanuele Castano. “Reading Literary Fiction Improves Theory of Mind.” Science 342, no. 6156 (2013): 377–380.
  • Palmer, Alan. Fictional Minds. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
  • Palmer, Alan. Social Minds in the Novel. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010.
  • Panero, Maria Eugenia, et al. “Does Reading a Single Passage of Literary Fiction Really Improve Theory of Mind? An Attempt at Replication.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 111, no. 5 (2016): e46–e54.
  • Zunshine, Lisa. Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006.
  • 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

  • Burroway, Janet. Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft.
  • 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. Rev. ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
  • Swain, Dwight V. Techniques of the Selling Writer. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965.

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 translations consulted are named.

  • Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. 1847.
  • Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. 1847.
  • Calvino, Italo. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller. 1979. Trans. William Weaver (1981).
  • Collins, Wilkie. The Woman in White. 1860.
  • Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. 1853.
  • Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. 1866.
  • Eliot, George. Middlemarch. 1872.
  • Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. 1929; As I Lay Dying. 1930; Absalom, Absalom!. 1936.
  • Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. 1925.
  • Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary. 1857.
  • Hemingway, Ernest. “Hills Like White Elephants.” 1927.
  • Joyce, James. “The Dead.” 1914.
  • Kafka, Franz. Der Process. 1925.
  • Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook. 1962.
  • Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria. The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. 1881.
  • Morrison, Toni. Beloved. 1987.
  • Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita. 1955.
  • Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. 1966.
  • Rulfo, Juan. Pedro Páramo. 1955.
  • Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. 1818.
  • Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. 1939.
  • Stoker, Bram. Dracula. 1897.
  • Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair. 1848.
  • Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace. 1869; Anna Karenina. 1878; Kholstomer (Strider). 1886. English versions consulted for Anna Karenina: trans. Constance Garnett (1901); trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (2000); trans. Rosamund Bartlett (2014).
  • Woolf, Virginia. Mrs Dalloway. 1925; To the Lighthouse. 1927; The Waves. 1931.

14.5 Added in the second edition

The Core chapter’s post-2000 and screen cases, each checked by a narrow lookup (recorded in the edition’s examples register):

  • Evaristo, Bernardine. Girl, Woman, Other. 2019. [Twelve women in four chapters of three; the after-party.]
  • Flynn, Gillian. Gone Girl. 2012. [Nick’s present-tense chapters and Amy’s diary; Part Two opens on Amy alive.]
  • Han Kang. The Vegetarian. 2007; trans. Deborah Smith, 2015. [Three parts, through the husband, the brother-in-law and the sister; Yeong-hye never holds a part.]
  • Moyes, Jojo. Me Before You. 2012. [Louisa Clark’s first person; a third-person prologue following Will before the accident; four chapters given to Camilla, Nathan, Steven and Katrina; Will never narrates.]
  • The Affair. Created by Sarah Treem and Hagai Levi. Showtime, 2014–19. [Season 1: each episode in two parts, Noah’s and Alison’s.]
  • “Long, Long Time.” The Last of Us, season 1, episode 3. Written by Craig Mazin, directed by Peter Hoar. HBO, 2023. [Bill and Frank across some twenty years; Joel and Ellie at the start and end.]