CONTENTS
Preface = xi
Acknowledgements = xv
Prologue In the Wilderness = 1
1 Towards a 'Natural' Narratology = 12
1.1 Linguistic Concepts. of the Natural = 13
1.1.1 Natural Narrative = 13
1.1.2 The Linguistic Theory of Naturalness : From Frames To Prototypes = 17
1.2 A Redefinition of Narrativity = 20
1.2.1 History VS. Experientiality = 20
1.2.2 Narrativity = 26
1.2.3 Narrativization = 31
1.2.4 Realism and Mimesis = 35
1.2.5 Fictionality = 38
1.3 Towards a 'Natural' Narratology = 43
2 Natural Narrative and Other Oral Modes = 53
2.1 Oral Types of Storytelling : A Generic Overview = 57
2.2 Natural Narrative : The Creation of Story Meaning = 60
2.2.1 The Features of Conversational Storytelling : The Experiential Mode = 63
2.2.2 Report, Observational Narrative and The Vicarious Mode = 71
2.2.3 Institutionalized Storytelling and The Link With Written Narrative = 77
2.3 humorous and didactic short forms = 81
2.3.1 The Joke = 81
2.3.2 Exemplum and / Or Anecdote = 85
3 From The Oral To The Written : Narrative Structure Bfore the Novel = 92
3.1 Middle English Prose = 94
3.2 Middle English Verse Narrative = 107
3.2.1 Saints' Legends = 107
3.2.2 Romance = 115
3.3 Renaissance Prose and Popular Writing Before Behn = 120
4 The Realist Paradigm : Consciousness, Mimesis and The Reading of The 'Real' = 129
4.1 Aphra Behn, Or : From Drama To Fiction = 131
4.1.1 The Orientation : Development of Report Structure = 131
4.1.2 The Narrative Episode and The Dramatic Scene = 142
4.1.3 The Consciousness Scene = 153
4.2 The Natural Parameters of Realism = 159
4.2.1 Verisimilitude and Effet Ee Re'el = 159
4.2.2 Natural Parameters = 163
4.2.3 Authorial Narrative, Omniscience and Reliability = 165
4.3 The Consciousness Novel : The English Novel From Behn To Woolf = 168
4.4 the Unimpassioned Observer : Meutral Narrative = 172
5 Reflectorization and Flguralization : The Malleability of Language = 178
5.1 Reflectorization = 179
5.1.1 Original Proposals = 179
5.1.2 Lawrence and Weldon : A Case Study = 184
5.2 The 'Empty Centre' Or Flguralization = 192
5.2.1 Original Proposals = 192
5.2.2 Mansfield's 'At The Bay' : Another Case Study = 198
5.2.3 Reflectorization and Flguralizaion Contrasted = 201
5.3 Observers, Narrators and Refiectors = 207
5.3.1 The Anonymous Witness position = 207
5.3.2 Embodiment, Skaz, Unreliability : Cognitive Parameters Reintroduced = 211
5.3.3 Consonant Reflectorization = 213
5.4 Summary = 217
6 Virgin Territories : The Strategic Expansion of Eeictic 0ptions = 222
6.1 The Deictic Center Extended : 'Odd' Personal Pronouns and The Presentation Of Consciousness = 223
6.1.1 'Odd' Pronouns : multiple Subjects, Impossible Protagonists and Invented Pronominal Morphology = 224
6.2 Person as A Narratological Category Reconsidered = 244
6.3 Tense and Narration : Undermining Deixis As Usual = 249
6.3.1 The Narrative Present = 249
6.3.2 'Odd' Narrative Tenses = 256
6.3.3 Non-Finite Verb Forms = 260
6.3.4 Tense Alternation = 262
6.4 Deixes In Action = 266
7 Games With Tellers, Telling and Told = 269
7.1 Narratological Postmodernisms = 271
7.2 The Narrativization Of The Teller : Narration As Reflective Consciousness = 274
7.3 The Usurpation Of Telling By Competing Discourses = 278
7.4 Reading A Story Where There Is None : Against The Grain Of The Text = 288
7.5 Hermetic Writing : The Deconstruction Of The Referential Function Of Language Where Even The Most Intrepid Reader Fears To Tread = 294
7.5.1 Plenitude and Multiplicity = 294
7.5.2 Language Disassembled Into Words = 299
7.6 Narrative and Poetry : The Condition Of Writing As Ecreture = 304
8 Natural Narratology = 311
8.1 What Is Ntural Narratology? A Theoretical Outline = 312
8.1.1 The Historical Side Of Things : Narrativization and Its Limits = 315
8.1.2 What Is Narrative? (Part One) = 318
8.1.3 Degrees Of Narrativity, Non-Narrative Texts and The Question Of Historicity = 323
8.2 Standard Models Reviewed : How To Square The Circle = 330
8.3 Narratological Categorees and Cognitive Parameters = 333
8.3.1 Story VS. Discourse Reconsidered = 333
8.3.2 Tellers VS. Reflectors, Agents and Readers : The Dramatis Personae Of Narratology = 337
8.3.3 Throwing Out The Baby and Preserving The Bath Water : Typological Categories Reconceptualized = 341
8.4 The Medium of Narrative : Genre Revisited (What Is Narrative? Part Two) = 347
8.5 The Politics of Narrative : Feminism, Postcolonialism and The Discourse of Authorial Power = 358
8.5.1 E'Criture Feminine and The Place of Marratology In Feminist Studies = 359
8.5.2 Ideology and Power = 366
8.6 Pulling The Threads Together : Finishing Touches To The Design = 371
In Lieu Of An Epilogue = 376
Notes = 379
References = 407
Texts = 407
Criticism = 418
Author Index = 443
Subject Index = 448
