Narrative, October 2006

Narrative is the official journal of The Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, the association for scholars interested in narrative. Narrative's broad range of scholarship includes the English, American, and European novel, nonfiction narrative, film, and narrative as used in performance art.

Volume 14, Number 3, October 2006

CONTENTS:

PHELAN, JAMES - Editor's Column: On Critical Dialogues

KEEN, SUZANNE - A Theory of Narrative Empathy

BIBERMAN, EFRAT - On Narrativity in the Visual Field: A Psychoanalytic View of Velázquez's Las Meninas

DUBROW, HEATHER - The Interplay of Narrative and Lyric: Competition, Cooperation, and the Case of the Anticipatory Amalgam

BOWMAN, MARY R.  - The Story Was Already Written: Narrative Theory in The Lord of the Rings

HINNANT, CHARLES H.  - Jane Austen's "Wild Imagination": Romance and the Courtship Plot in the Six Canonical Novels

GU, MING DONG  - Theory of Fiction: A Non-Western Narrative Tradition

DIALOGUE :

OLSON, BARBARA K.  - "Who Thinks This Book?" Or Why the Author/God Analogy Merits Our Continued Attention

CULLER, JONATHAN D.  - Knowing or Creating? A Response to Barbara Olson

BAETENS, JAN
HUME, KATHRYN - Speed, Rhythm, Movement: A Dialogue on K. Hume's Article "Narrative Speed"