List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Traditional Questions 2. New Questions Chapter 1. Before and Surrounding Structuralism 1. Story and Plot 2. Telling and Showing 3. Author and Narrator 4. Narrator and Reader 5. Consciousness and Speech 6. Perception and Speech Chapter 2. Structuralism 1. Story 1.1. Events 1.2. Actants 1.3. Setting 2. Narrative 2.1. Time 2.2. Character 2.3. Focalization 3. Narration 3.1. Narrating 3.2. Consciousness Representation Chapter 3. Postclassical Narratology 1. Broadening Conceptions of the Narrative Text 1.1. Broadening the Medium: Intermedial Narratology 1.2. Broadening in Time: Diachronic Narratology 1.3. Broadening the Fictional World 2. Communicative Approaches 2.1. Rhetorical Narratology 2.2. Cognitive Narratology 3. Narratology and Ideology 3.1. Narrative Ethics 3.2. Feminist and Queer Narratology 3.3. Postcolonial Narratology 3.4. Cultural Narratology and Socio-narratology 3.4.1. Socio-narratology 3.4.2. Cultural Narratology 4. Everyday Life as a Narrative Process 4.1. Postmodern Narratology 4.2. Natural Narratology 4.3. Unnatural Narratology Appendix A: "Pegasian" Charlotte Mutsaers Appendix B: "The Map" Gerrit Krol Appendix C: "City" Wasco Notes Bibliography Index