Narrative Theory Books
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Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 529 ratings — published 1979
The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 624 ratings — published 2002
Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 295 ratings — published 1978
Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 533 ratings — published 1978
Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 267 ratings — published 1984
Time and Narrative, Volume 1 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 754 ratings — published 1983
The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 154 ratings — published 1986
Intertextuality (New Critical Idiom)
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avg rating 3.82 — 290 ratings — published 2000
Transparent Minds (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 112 ratings — published 1978
Towards a 'Natural' Narratology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 24 ratings — published 1996
Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 40 ratings — published 1991
Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 203 ratings — published 1987
On Meaning: Selected Writings in Semiotic Theory (Theory and History of Literature)
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avg rating 3.87 — 31 ratings — published 1983
Unspeakable sentences: Narration and representation in the language of fiction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 8 ratings — published 1982
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 3,606 ratings — published 1975
S/Z: An Essay (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3,895 ratings — published 1970
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,281 ratings — published 1961
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 4,960 ratings — published 1927
The Theory of the Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,487 ratings — published 1916
Affective Narratology: The Emotional Structure of Stories (Frontiers of Narrative)
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avg rating 3.47 — 36 ratings — published 2011
Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 49 ratings — published 1999
The Novel and The Police (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 93 ratings — published 1989
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,971 ratings — published 1957
Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 58 ratings — published 2006
Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 19 ratings — published
Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates (Theory and Interpretation of Narrative)
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avg rating 3.84 — 49 ratings — published 2012
Towards a Postmodern Theory of Narrative (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 7 ratings — published 1996
Narrative as Rhetoric: Technique, Audiences, Ethics, Ideology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 21 ratings — published 1996
A Companion to Narrative Theory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 19 ratings — published 2005
Poetics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 29,649 ratings — published -335
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 45,159 ratings — published 1949
The Political Unconscious (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,146 ratings — published 1981
The Poetics of Prose (English and French Edition)
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avg rating 3.78 — 130 ratings — published 1971
The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 958 ratings — published 1957
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2,190 ratings — published 1928
Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 29 ratings — published 2005
The Cambridge Companion to Narrative (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 87 ratings — published 2007
Characters & Viewpoint (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 4,715 ratings — published 1988
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 3,763 ratings — published 1942
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 13,534 ratings — published 1987
Theory of Prose (Russian Literature)
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avg rating 4.14 — 274 ratings — published 1925
Postmodern Narrative Theory (Transitions)
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avg rating 3.75 — 51 ratings — published 1998
Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative (Frontiers of Narrative)
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avg rating 3.95 — 22 ratings — published 2002
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 2,867 ratings — published 2001
Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 177 ratings — published 2025
The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,715 ratings — published 1990
Identity And Story: Creating Self in Narrative (The Narrative Study of Lives)
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avg rating 4.16 — 25 ratings — published 2006
The Feminine in Fairy Tales (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 860 ratings — published 1972
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 6,653 ratings — published 1959
Cultural Psychology: A Once and Future Discipline (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 44 ratings — published 1996
“Sadism demands a story, depends on making something happen, forcing a change in another person, a battle of will and strength, victory/defeat, all occurring in a linear time with a beginning and an end.”
― Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
― Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
