Forthcoming. “Space” and “Narrative in Other Media” (than literature). Entries for the Handbook of Narratology. Ed. Peter Hühn. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

2007. "Diagramming Narrative." Semiotica 165, 1-4, 11-40

2007. “Transfictionality Across Media.” In: Theorizing Narrativity. Eds. John Pier and José Angel García. Berlin: De Gruyter.

2007. “Toward a Definition of Narrative.” The Cambridge Companion to Narrative. Ed David Herman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2006. "Semantics, Pragmatics and Narrativity: A Response to David Rudrum." Narrative 14.2, 188-196.
See "In defense of definition," my response to Rudrum's response:


2005. "On the Theoretical Foundations of Transmedial Narratology.” Narrative Beyond Literary Criticism. Ed. Jan Christoph Meister with Tom Kindt, Wilhelm Schermus and Malte Stein. Berlin: De Gruyter.1-23.
2005. " Narrative." Entry for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative.


2005. "Media and Narrative." Entry for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative.


2003. “On Defining Narrative Media.” Image and Narrative 6.


2003. "Cognitive Maps and the Construction of Narrative Space." Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences. Ed. David Herman. Stanford: Publications of the Center for the Study of Language and Information.

2003. "Narrative Cartography: Toward a Visual Narratology." What is Narratology ? Ed. Tom Kindt. Berlin: De Gruyter.

2001. The Narratorial Functions: Breaking Down a Theoretical Primitive."Narrative 9.2, 146-152.

1999. "Cyberage Narratology: Computers, Metaphor and Narrative."Narratologies: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis. Ed. David Herman. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 113-141.

1998. "Taking Risks With the Truth: The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Human Reality." Narrative Inquiry 8.2, 419-427.

1995. "Allegories of Immersion: Virtual Narration in Postmodern Fiction." Style 29.2, 262-286.

1993. "Narrative in Real Time: Chronicle, Mimesis and Plot in the Baseball Broadcast." Narrative 1.2, 138-155.

1993. "Narrator," "Narratee," "Narrative Code" and "Narratology" (the latter with Ernst van Alphen). Entries for the Dictionary of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms. Ed. Irena K. Makaryk, Toronto UP, pp. 110-116 and 598-601.

1992. "The Modes of Narrativity and their Visual Metaphors. Style 26.3, 368-387.

1990. "Stacks, Frames and Boundaries, or Narrative as Computer Language." Poetics Today 11.4, 873-900.

1992 [1988]. "In Search of the Narrative Theme. Trans. of a French original by Stacie Marinelli. The Return of Thematic Criticism. Ed. Werner Sollors, Harvard English Studies 18, Cambridge and London: Harvard UP 1992,169-188.

1987. "The Window Structure of Narrative Discourse." Semiotica 64.1/2, 59-81.

1986. "Embedded Narratives and Tellability." Style 20.3:319-340.

1986. "Embedded Narratives and the Structure of Plans." Text 6.1:107- 142.

1981. "The Pragmatics of Personal and Impersonal Fiction." Poetics 10:517-539.

1981. "Michel Butor's L'Emploi du temps: Matrix of a Phenomenology of Reading." L'Esprit Créateur 23.2, 60-69.

Some links of interest to narrative theory

Society for the Study of Narrative Literature

Manfred Jahn’s Narratology Web Site

Voice of the Shuttle: Alan Liu's page on research in the Humanities

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