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.]