Contents
1. Getting Started: A Thumbnail Sketch of the Approach
Toward a Working Definition of Narrative
2. Framing the Approach: Some Background and Context
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Narrative and Narrative Theory
Major Trends in Recent Scholarship on Narrative
3. Back to the Elements: Narrative Occasions
The Narrative Communication Model
4. Temporality, Particularity, and Narrative: An Excursion into the Theory of Text Types
From Contexts of Narration to Narrative as a Type of Text
Text Types and Categorization Processes
Narrative as a Text-Type Category: Descriptions versus Stories versus Explanations
Coda: Text Types, Communicative Competence, and the Role of Stories in Science
5. The Third Element; or, How to Build a Storyworld
Narratives as Blueprints for Worldmaking
Narrative Worlds: A Survey of Approaches
Configuring Narrative Worlds: The WHAT, WHERE, and WHEN Dimensions of Storyworlds
Worlds Disrupted: Narrativity and Noncanonical Events
6. The Nexus of Narrative and Mind
Consciousness across Narrative Genres
Experiencing Minds: What It’s Like, Qualia, Raw Feels
Storied Minds: Narrative Foundations of Consciousness?
Literary Narrative: Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” (1927)
Narrative Told during Face-to-Face Communication:UFO or the Devil (2002)
Excerpted Panels from Ghost World (1997), a Graphic Novel by Daniel Clowes
Screenshots from Terry Zwigoff’s Film Version of Ghost World (2001)