A Companion to Narrative Theory

From Aristotle to Henry James, Tzvetan Todorov and Mikhail Bakhtin: this substantial and dense, but stimulating, book attests that the study of narratives has long engaged and even obsessed critics. A new volume in Blackwell's Companion series, it presents 35 essays by prominent living academics, including luminaries like Wayne C. Booth and J. Hillis Miller who have been active theorists for several or more decades. The editors are, respectively, an English professor at Ohio State, and Chair of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College, New York, and most of the other contributors also hail from the USA. However, there are representatives...