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• Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2019), by Ignasi Ribó (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), ed. by Jan Alber, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Brian Richardson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), ed. by David Herman, James Phelan, Peter J. Rabinowitz, Brian Richardson, and Robyn R. Warhol (PDF at Ohio State)
• Postclassical Narratology: Approaches and Analyses (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), ed. by Jan Alber and Monika Fludernik (PDF at Ohio State)
• Social Minds in the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Alan Palmer (PDF at Ohio State)
• Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by James Phelan (PDF at Ohio State)
• Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Peter J. Rabinowitz, contrib. by James Phelan (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Narrative as Rhetoric: Technique, Audiences, Ethics, Ideology (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1996), by James Phelan (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Understanding Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), ed. by James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
• Debating Rhetorical Narratology: On the Synthetic, Mimetic, and Thematic Aspects of Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2020), by Matthew Clark and James Phelan (PDF and Epub at Ohio State)
• Narrative Discourse: Authors and Narrators in Literature, Film, and Art (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Patrick Colm Hogan (PDF at Ohio State)
• Real Mysteries: Narrative and the Unknowable (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by H. Porter Abbott (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Richard Walsh (PDF at Ohio State)
• Narrative Causalities (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Emma Kafalenos (PDF at Ohio State)
• Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Brian Richardson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Transgressions of Reading: Narrative Engagement as Exile and Return (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), by Robert D. Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2020), ed. by Erin James and Eric Morel (PDF at Ohio State)
• Conversations on Cognitive Cultural Studies: Literature, Language, and Aesthetics (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Frederick Luis Aldama and Patrick Colm Hogan (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Return of the Omniscient Narrator: Authorship and Authority in Twenty-First Century Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Paul Dawson (PDF at Ohio State)
• An Aesthetics of Narrative Performance: Transnational Theater, Literature, and Film in Contemporary Germany (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Claudia Breger (PDF at Ohio State)
• A Glance Beyond Doubt: Narration, Representation, Subjectivity (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1996), by Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Reader as Peeping Tom: Nonreciprocal Gazing in Narrative Fiction and Film (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Jeremy Hawthorn (PDF with commentary at Ohio State)
• Narrative Innovation and Incoherence: Ideology in Defoe, Goldsmith, Austen, Eliot, and Hemingway (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1992), by Michael M. Boardman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative Structures and the Language of the Self (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Matthew Clark (PDF at Ohio State)
• Territories of History: Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America (2007), by Sarah H. Beckjord (PDF at PSU)
• Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2004), by Margaret Reid (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• The End of Books, or Books Without End? Reading Interactive Narratives (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by J. Yellowlees Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Jeanne Rosier Smith (HTML at UC Press)
• The Progress of Romance: Literary Historiography and the Gothic Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1996), by David H. Richter (PDF at Ohio State)
• Narcissism and the Literary Libido: Rhetoric, Text, and Subjectivity (New York and London: New York University Press, c1994), by Marshall W. Alcorn (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Susan Sniader Lanser (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Emily S. Apter
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open
• Causality and Narrative in French Fiction from Zola to Robbe-Grillet (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Roy Jay Nelson (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Molly Hite (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Mary Carleton Narratives, 1663-1673: A Missing Chapter in the History of the English Novel (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1914), ed. by Ernest Bernbaum (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mary Carleton narratives, 1663-1673, a missing chapter in the history of the English novel (Harvard University Press; [etc., etc.], 1914), by Ernest Bernbaum (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of narration (F. S. Crofts & co., 1926), by Mary Ellen Chase and Frances Kelley Del Plaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of prose narratives, chosen and ed. (Ginn and company, 1914), by Chauncey Wetmore Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of narration (H. Holt and company, 1895), by W. T. Brewster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative suspense. "When Slim turned sideways ..." (University of Michigan Press, 1973), by Eric S. Rabkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descriptive and narrative writing (Houghton Mifflin company, 1927), by Lawrence H. Conrad (page images at HathiTrust)
• English composition in theory and practice (The Macmillan company, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, Thomas Goddard Wright, F. E. Pierce, Alfred Arundel May, and H. N. MacCracken (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to describe and narrate visually: exercises in literary composition, based on principles and examples of the writer's art (Double day, Doran & company, inc., 1928), by L. A. Sherman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Siren songs : gender, audiences, and narrators in the Odyssey (University of Michigan Press, 1995), by Lillian Eileen Doherty (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A course in narrative writing (Holt, 1906), by Gertrude Buck and Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Butterfly, the bride : essays on law, narrative, and the family (University of Michigan Press, 1999), by Carol Weisbrod (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Homer : tradition, narrative, and audience (University of Michigan Press, 2002), by Ruth Scodel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Contexts of war : manipulation of genre in Virgilian battle narrative (University of Michigan Press, 2004), by Andreola Rossi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Layamon's Brut : a comparative study in narrative art (University of California Press, 1916), by Frances Lytle Gillespy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descriptive and narrative projects, a textbook for college classes (Thomas Y. Crowell company, 1926), by Dora Wilhelmina Farrington (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of story-telling : studies in the development of narrative (F.A. Stokes, 1910), by Arthur Ransome (page images at HathiTrust)
• Karl Gutzkow's short stories : a study in the technique of narration (1917), by Daniel Frederick Pasmore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A history of story-telling; studies in the development of narrative. (T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1909), by Arthur Ransome (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to describe and narrate visually : exercises in literary composition, based on principles and examples of the writer's art (New York : George H. Doran Co., [1925], 1925), by L. A. Sherman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A History of Story-telling: Studies in the development of narrative, by Arthur Ransome, illust. by J. Gavin (Gutenberg ebook)

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