Preliminaries. Introduction / David Herman
Toward a definition of narrative / Marie-Laure Ryan
Studying narrative fiction : a starter-kit. Story, plot, and narration / H. Porter Abbott
Time and space / Teresa Bridgeman
Dialogue / Bronwen Thomas
Focalization / Manfred Jahn
Other narrative media (a selection). Conversational storytelling / Neal R. Norrick
Drama and narrative / Brian Richardson
Film and television narrative / Jason Mittell
Narrative and digital media / Nick Montfort
Further contexts for narrative study. Gender / Ruth Page
Rhetoric/ethics / James Phelan
Ideology / Luc Herman and Bart Vervaeck
Language / Michael Toolan
Cognition, emotion, and consciousness / David Herman
Identity/alterity / Monika Fludernik.
