New Perspectives on Narrative Perspective: (SUNY series, The Margins of Literature)

Offers an interdisciplinary approach to narrative perspective, with essays by leading scholars of literary studies, cognitive psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and film and media criticism.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Willie van Peer and Seymour Chatman Part I: Concepts 1. On the Narrative Connection Noel Carroll 2. A Point of View on Point of View or Refocusing Focalization Gerald Prince 3. Why Narrators Can Be Focalizers--and Why It Matters James Phelan Part II: History 4. The Origins of Figural Narration in Antiquity Irene J. F. de Jong 5. The Rise and Fall of Empathetic Narrative: A Historical Perspective on Perspective Sylvia Adamson 6. The Establishment of Internal Focalization in Odd Pronominal Contexts Monika Fludernik Part III: Applications and Case Studies 7. Ironic Perspective: Conrad's Secret Agent Seymour Chatman 8. Point of View and Viewer Empathy in Film Els Andringa, Petra van Horssen, Astrid Jacobs, and Ed Tan 9. Breaking Conventional Barriers: Transgressions of Modes of Focalization Dan Shen 10. Holding onto Established Viewpoints during Processing News Reports Herre van Oostendorp 11. Actor-Role Analysis: Ideology, Point of View, and the News Warren Sack Part IV: Comprehension 12. On the Perspective Structure of Narrative Texts: Steps toward a Constructvist Narratology Ansgar Nunning 13. Situation Models and Point of View in Narrative Understanding Daniel Morrow 14. Collective Perspective, Individual Perspective, and the Speaker in Between: On "We" Literary Narratives Uri Margolin 15. Who Said What? Who Knows What? Tracking Speakers and Knowledge in Narratives Arthur C. Grasser, Cheryl Bowers, Ute J. Bayen, and Xiangen Hu Part V: Effects and Consequences 16. Prolegomena for a Science of Psychonarratology Peter Dixon and Marisa Bortolussi 17. Shifting Perspectives: Readers' Feelings and Literary Response David S. Miall and Don Kuiken 18. Perspective as Participation Richard J. Gerrig 19. Justice in Perspective Willie van Peer 20. Elipogue: Research Questions, Research Paradigms, and Research Methodologies in the Study of Narrative Mick Short Glossary Bibliography Contributors Name Index Subject Index

About the Author :
Willie van Peer is Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Munich. He is the author of several books on poetics and the epistemological foundations of literary studies, including The Taming of the Text: Explorations in Language, Literature, and Culture. Seymour Chatman is Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and Film Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of several books on literary and cinematic narratology, including Coming to Terms: The Rhetoric of Narrative in Fiction and Film.

Review :
"By far the best thing about this book is the mix of authors. We find first-rate literary theorists, psychologists, film critics, and linguists all writing about more or less the same thing but, of course, from very different perspectives. A nice mix of humanistic and empirical scholarship." - Colin Martindale, University of Maine "This book is very timely, in light of current developments in American stylistics. American scholars, except for researchers like Chatman, Gerald Prince, and Ann Banfield, have tended to shy away from global treatments of narrative, whereas this subject has been a focus of a great deal of research in Europe for the last twenty years. In addition, partly as a response to the excesses of so-called literary theory, interest has mounted in a more empirical approach to literary analysis. This volume speaks to both of these developments. It will constitute an important statement within an emergent sub-discipline of stylistics, and should help alter the terms of current debate over literary theory." - Donald C. Freeman, University of Southern California