The Performative Power of Narrative in Drama: On the Forms and Functions of Dramatic Storytelling in Shakespeare’s Plays

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I Narrative and the Mind
5. Conscious and Unconscious Processes in Readers’ Narrative Experiences 37
6. (Mis)perceiving to Good Aesthetic and Cognitive Effect 61
7. The Mind beyond the Skin in Little Dorrit 79
8. The Category of ‘Person’ in Fiction: You and We Narrative-Multiplicity and Indeterminacy of Reference 101
9. Part II Transmedial, Transgeneric, and Interdisciplinary Narrative Study
10. Narratology and Media(lity): The Transmedial Expansion of a Literary Discipline and Possible Consequences 145
11. Endings in Drama and Performance: A Theoretical Model 181
12. The Performative Power of Narrative in Drama: On the Forms and Functions of Dramatic Storytelling in Shakespeare’s Plays 200
13. Poetry, Narratology, Meta-Cognition 232
14. Narratives as Literary Commonplaces in Late Medieval and Early Modern Medical Writings 254
15. Part III Local and National Approaches in Diachronic Perspective: Towards a Comparative Narratology
16. Narratology in the Mirror of Codifying Texts 277
17. The “Tel Aviv School”: A Rhetorical-Functional Approach to Narrative 297
18. Enunciative Narratology: A French Speciality 312
19. Is There a French Postclassical Narratology? 336