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Narrative Theory Books
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Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 536 ratings — published 1979
The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 629 ratings — published 2002
Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.80 — 300 ratings — published 1978
Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 537 ratings — published 1978
Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 268 ratings — published 1984
Time and Narrative, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 763 ratings — published 1983
The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 157 ratings — published 1986
Intertextuality (New Critical Idiom)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.82 — 292 ratings — published 2000
Transparent Minds (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 113 ratings — published 1978
Towards a 'Natural' Narratology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 25 ratings — published 1996
Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 40 ratings — published 1991
Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 204 ratings — published 1987
On Meaning: Selected Writings in Semiotic Theory (Theory and History of Literature)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 31 ratings — published 1983
Unspeakable sentences: Narration and representation in the language of fiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.62 — 8 ratings — published 1982
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,610 ratings — published 1975
S/Z: An Essay (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,910 ratings — published 1970
The Rhetoric of Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,291 ratings — published 1961
Aspects of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,988 ratings — published 1927
The Theory of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,497 ratings — published 1916
Affective Narratology: The Emotional Structure of Stories (Frontiers of Narrative)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.47 — 36 ratings — published 2011
Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 49 ratings — published 1999
The Novel and The Police (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 93 ratings — published 1989
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,975 ratings — published 1957
Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 58 ratings — published 2006
Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 19 ratings — published
Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates (Theory and Interpretation of Narrative)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.82 — 50 ratings — published 2012
Towards a Postmodern Theory of Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.43 — 7 ratings — published 1996
Narrative as Rhetoric: Technique, Audiences, Ethics, Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.68 — 22 ratings — published 1996
A Companion to Narrative Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 19 ratings — published 2005
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,978 ratings — published -335
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,471 ratings — published 1949
The Political Unconscious (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,153 ratings — published 1981
The Poetics of Prose (English and French Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.77 — 131 ratings — published 1971
The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.85 — 963 ratings — published 1957
Morphology of the Folktale (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,204 ratings — published 1928
Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 29 ratings — published 2005
The Cambridge Companion to Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 87 ratings — published 2007
Characters & Viewpoint (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,725 ratings — published 1988
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,786 ratings — published 1942
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,643 ratings — published 1987
Theory of Prose (Russian Literature)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 274 ratings — published 1925
Postmodern Narrative Theory (Transitions)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.75 — 51 ratings — published 1998
Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative (Frontiers of Narrative)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 22 ratings — published 2002
Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices (Frontiers of Narrative)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.40 — 5 ratings — published 2009
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,892 ratings — published 2001
Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 194 ratings — published 2025
The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-theory)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,793 ratings — published 1990
Identity And Story: Creating Self in Narrative (The Narrative Study of Lives)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 26 ratings — published 2006
The Feminine in Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 866 ratings — published 1972
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as narrative-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,726 ratings — published 1959
“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
“Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it.”
― Radiance
― Radiance
