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RR 2006/257 A Companion to Narrative Theory Edited by James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz Blackwell Malden, MA and Oxford 2005 xvii + 571 pp. ISBN 1 4051 1476 2 £85 $124.95
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, 33
Keywords Narratives, Literary criticism
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120610672917
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 from universities in Canada, Europe, Israel and even Beijing, so there is a strong sense of engagement...