Contents

	Acknowledgments
	Note
ONE	What Is Narrative?
	The Traditional Understanding of Narrative
	The Nature of Narrative Revisited
	A New Approach to Narrative Analysis
TWO	The Song . . . of Roland?
	The Following-Pattern
	Symmetry
	Integration
	Polarity Adjustment
THREE	Dual-Focus Narrative
	Beginnings
	Principles of Opposition
	Replacement Operations and Polarity Adjustment
	Endings
	The Dual-Focus System
FOUR	Hester’s Speculation
	The Centrality of the Margins
	Speculation
	The Triumph of Individual Conscience
FIVE	Single-Focus Narrative
	The Birth of Desire
	Models and Motives
	Twice-Told Tales
	Modes of Identification
	The Single-Focus System
SIX	Pieter Bruegel, or the Space of Multiplicity
	The Hole in the Center
	Thematic Resolution
	The Tilted Plane
SEVEN	Multiple-Focus Narrative
	Illegitimate Narration
	Carnivalization
	Multiplicity as Critique
	How Did We Get Here from There?
	Hem-Naming
	Intentional Accidents
	The Reader as Alchemist
	The Multiple-Focus System
EIGHT	Theoretical Conclusion
	Mapping
	Narrative Transformations
	The Transformational Matrix
	The Typological Matrix
NINE	Practical Conclusion
	Textual Analysis
	Literary and Film History
	Social Organization
	Religion
	Political Life
	Imaging the World
	References
	Index