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Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (under contract to the Ohio State University Press, Theory and Interpretation of Narrative series, 2006; 235 ms pp). Chapters on narration in the 2oth Century, second person narration, “we” narration, multiperson narration, the “permeable” narrator, the interlocutor, denarration, and implied authors. “Transtextual Characters” (in preparation). “Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices” (Introduction) and “Narrative Beginnings in Postmodern Fiction: Beckett and Calvino,” in Narrative Beginnings, ed. Brian Richardson, forthcoming. The volume also includes essays on beginnings in national narratives, historical narratives, Bronte and Morrison, French fiction, Stevenson, Faulkner and Woolf, Nabokov, Rushdie, Puig, Alvarez, modern drama, and hypertext fiction by women. “Narrative Theory and Drama,” Cambridge Companion to Narrative Theory, ed. David Herman, Cambridge UP, 2006 (forthcoming). “Making Time: Narrative Temporality in Twentieth Century Literature and Theory,” Literature Compass [online: http://www.literature-compass.com.], forthcoming. “Unlawful Entry: Nabokov’s Authorial Intrusions, the Postmodern Author as Character, and the Nature of Fictionality” (forthcoming). “Beyond the Poetics of Plot: Alternative Forms of Narrative Progression and the Multiple Trajectories of Ulysses,” A Companion to Narrative Theory, eds. James Phelan and Peter Rabinowitz (London: Blackwell) 2005, 167-80. “Anti-Narrative,” “Causality,” “Denarration,” and “Narrative Dynamics” entries in The Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory, Routledge (2005). "Beyond Story and Discourse: Narrative Time in Postmodern and Non-Mimetic Fiction", Narrative Dynamics, Ohio State UP, 2002, 47-63. Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frames. Columbus OH: Ohio State UP, 2002. 399 pp. Includes General Introduction and introductions to sections on "Narrative Time," "Plot,” “Narrative Sequence," "Beginnings and Closure," and "Narrative Frames." Includes classic essays by Tomashevsky, Bakhtin, Crane, Frye, Genette, Ricoeur, Hayden White, Phelan, Said, Nancy Miller, Brooks, D. A. Miller, DuPlessis, Derrida, Warhol and others. “Voice and Narration in Postmodern Drama,” New Literary History 32 (2001) 681-94. “Denarration in Fiction: Erasing the Story in Beckett and Others,” Narrative 9(2001), 168-75. "Linearity and Its Discontents: Rethinking Narrative Form and Ideological Valence," College English 62 (2000) 685-95. "Narrative Poetics and Postmodern Transgression: Theorizing the Collapse of Time, Voice, and Frame," Narrative 8 (2000) 23-42. "Recent Concepts of Narrative and the Narratives of Narrative Theory," introduction to guest edited special issue: Concepts of Narrative, Style 34.2 (Summer, 2000). Includes essays on defining narrative, narrative and embodiement, historical narrative, reflexivity, reliability, and poststructuralist, gay, and feminist concepts of narrative. Style 34 (2000) 168-75. With a bibliography of recent works on narrative theory” (with Monika Fludernik), 319-28. "Theatrical Space and the Domain of Endgame," The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 14.2 (Spring 2000) 14-22. “Fiction and Its Other”; review of The Distinction of Fiction, by Dorrit Cohn. Novel 32 (1999) 444-45. Review of Narrative/Theory, ed. David Richter. South Atlantic Review 63 (1998) 129-31. "A Postclassical Narratology," PMLA 113 (1998) 288-89. "Beyond Poststructuralism: Theory of Character, the Personae of Modern Drama, and the Antinomies of Critical Theory," Modern Drama 40 (1997) 86-99. Unlikely Stories: Causality and the Nature of Modern Narrative. Newark and London: University of Delaware Press (1997) 219 pp. Discusses cause as indispensable component of any narrative, as historically variable aspect of every narrative’s setting, and as necessary relation between divergent plot segments. "The Other Reader's Response: On Multiple, Divided, and Oppositional Audiences," Criticism 38 (1997) 31-53. Review of Ariadne's Thread: Story Lines, by J. Hillis Miller. Studies in the Novel 25 (1993) 493-95. "Pinter's Landscape and the Boundaries of Narrative," Essays in Literature 18 (1991) 37-45. "‘Hours Dreadful and Things Strange’: Inversions of Chronology and Causality in Macbeth," Philological Quarterly 68 (1989) 283-94. "Point of View in Drama: Diegetic Monologue, Unreliable Narrators, and the Author's Voice on Stage," Comparative Drama 22 (1988) 193-214.
(See also entries under Joyce, Conrad, and Woolf) Modernism, the Reader and the Other: Dramas of Misreading (forthcoming). “Teaching Narrative Beginnings, Middles, and Ends,” Approaches to Teaching Narrative Theory, eds. David Herman, Brian McHale, and James Phelan, MLA (forthcoming). Discusses teaching To the Lighthouse throughout. “Making Time: Narrative Temporality in Twentieth Century Literature and Theory,” Literature Compass [online: http://www.literature-compass.com.], forthcoming. “Beyond the Poetics of Plot: Alternative Forms of Narrative Progression and the Multiple Trajectories of Ulysses,” Blackwell Companion to Narrative Theory, eds. James Phelan and Peter Rabinowitz (London: Blackwell) 2005, 167-80. "The Genealogies of Ulysses, the Invention of Postmodernism, and the Narratives of Literary History" ELH 67 (2000) 1035-54. "Re-Mapping the Present: The Master Narrative of Modern Literary History and the Lost Forms of Twentieth-Century Fiction," Twentieth Century Literature 43 (1997) 291-309. "The Other Reader's Response: On Multiple, Divided, and Oppositional Audiences," Criticism 38 (1997) 31-53. (Includes a discussion of the reader in Lolita and other modernist texts.) General discussion of modernist deployments of chance and cause and specific studies of Nostromo, Mrs Dalloway, Light in August, and Invisible Man in Unlikely Stories: Causality and the Nature of Modern Narrative. Newark and London: University of Delaware Press (1997) 219 pp. "White on Black: Iconography, Race, and Reflexivity in Ellison's Invisible Man," Southern Humanities Review 30 (1996) 139-50. Review of Leland Monk, Standard Deviations: Chance and the Modern British Novel, Modern Fiction Studies 40 (1994) 397-9.
“Unlawful Entry: Nabokov’s Authorial Intrusions, the Postmodern Author as Character, and the Nature of Fictionality” (forthcoming). “Narrative Beginnings in Postmodern Fiction: Beckett and Calvino,” in Narrative Beginnings, ed. Brian Richardson, forthcoming. Review of Rewriting: Postmodern Narrative and Cultural Critique by Christian Moraru. The Comparatist 27 (2003) 183-85. "Beyond Story and Discourse: Narrative Time in Postmodern and Non-Mimetic Fiction" [revised and expanded version of part of "Narrative Poetics and Postmodern Transgression"], Narrative Dynamics, Ohio State UP, 2002, 47-63. “Voice and Narration in Postmodern Drama,” New Literary History 32 (2001) 681-94. “Denarration in Fiction: Erasing the Story in Beckett and Others,” Narrative 9(2001), 168-75. "The Genealogies of Ulysses, the Invention of Postmodernism, and the Narratives of Literary History" ELH 67 (2000) 1035-54. "Narrative Poetics and Postmodern Transgression: Theorizing the Collapse of Time, Voice, and Frame," Narrative 8 (2000) 23-42. "Re-Mapping the Present: The Master Narrative of Modern Literary History and the Lost Forms of Twentieth-Century Fiction," Twentieth Century Literature 43 (1997) 291-309. Chapter on Causality and Coincidence in Postmodern Narrative in Unlikely Stories: Causality and the Nature of Modern Narrative. Discusses texts by Stanisław Lem, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, John Hawkes, Angela Carter, Ton Stoppard, and Bharati Mukherjee.
“Misreading in ‘The Dead,’” chapter in Modernism, the Reader, and the Other: Dramas of Misreading (forthcoming). The Concept of Plot and the Plot of Ulysses,” (in progress). “Bad Joyce: Anti-Aesthetic Practices in Ulysses” (forthcoming). “The Interlocutor,” section on the curious speaker/narrator ofthe “Ithaca” episode in Unnatural Voices, Chapter 5. “Beyond the Poetics of Plot: Alternative Forms of Narrative Progression and the Multiple Trajectories of Ulysses,” A Companion to Narrative Theory, eds. James Phelan and Peter Rabinowitz (London: Blackwell) 2005, 167-80. "Ulysses and the Value of Literary Value: Verbal Art and Colonial Resistance" James Joyce Quarterly 41 (2005) 26 ms pp. "The Genealogies of Ulysses, the Invention of Postmodernism, and the Narratives of Literary History" ELH 67 (2000) 1035-54. "Make It Old: Lucian's A True Story, Joyce's Ulysses, and Homeric Patterns in Ancient Fiction" Comparative Literature Studies 37 (2000) 371-84.
“Unexpected Intertextuality: Conrad and Robbe-Grillet” (forthcoming). “Sex, Silver, Naming, and Biblical Allegory: Thematic and “Conrad and Posthumanist Narration: Fabricating Class and Consciousness onboard the Narcissus,” Conrad in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Carola Kaplan, Peter Mallios, and Andrea White (New York: Routledge) 2004, 213-22. Review of Conrad, Language, and Narrative by Michael Greaney, Studies in the Novel 36 (2004) 108-110.
"‘He was Not a Bit Like Me, Really’: Narration and Reception in ‘The Secret Sharer,’" Approaches to Teaching ‘Heart of Darkness’ and ‘The Secret Sharer,’ edited by Hunt Hawkins and Brian Shaffer, New York: MLA (2002) 74-78. “Construing Conrad’s The Secret Sharer: Suppressed Narratives, Subaltern Reception, and the Act of Interpretation,” Studies in the Novel 33 (2001), 306-21. Section on cause, chance, and narration in Nostromo in Unlikely Stories: Causality and the Nature of Modern Narrative, 111-19. "Beginning, Plot, Sequence, Closure: Teaching To the Lighthouse " “Chance and Cause in Woolf and Forster” (forthcoming). “Teaching Narrative Beginnings, Middles, and Ends,” [on To the Lighthouse], Approaches to Teaching Narrative Theory, eds. David Herman, Brian McHale, and James Phelan, MLA (forthcoming). “Reading, Materiality, and Evasion in To the Lighthouse,” Chapter Four of Modernism, the Reader, and the Other, forthcoming. "Linearity and Its Discontents: Rethinking Narrative Form and Ideological Valence," College English 62 (2000) 685-95. Discusses Woolf’s use of linearity. Discussion of multiple story lines, temporal sequence, and causal connection in Mrs Dalloway in Unlikely Stories, 96-100. Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (under contract to the Ohio State University Press, Theory and Interpretation of Narrative series, 2006; 235 ms pp). Discusses Beckett throughout as the exemplary anti-mimetic constructor and conflator of voices. Extended discussion of The Unnamable and “Worstward Ho.” “Voice and Narration in Postmodern Drama,” New Literary History 32 (2001) 681-94. (Includes discussion of “Not I” and other later plays of Beckett). “Denarration in Fiction: Erasing the Story in Beckett and Others,” Narrative 9(2001), 168-75. (Discusses Molloy and “Worstward Ho”.) Performance Review: Samuel Beckett Festival [10 plays], Scena Theater, Washington DC, April 1999. The Beckett Circle 21 (1999) 1-2. "Theatrical Space and the Domain of Endgame," The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 14.2 (Spring 2000) 14-22. Chapter on Molloy and the limits of causality: Humean skepticism,
Representation in Modern Drama: Toward a New Poetics (book in progress). “Narrative Theory and Drama,” Cambridge Companion to Narrative Theory, ed. David Herman, Cambridge UP, 2006 (forthcoming). “Is That Really Einstein? The Ontological Status of Historical Characters in Drama,” Digital Video Conference Proceedings, 2005: www.ucsb.edu/~STAR “Native American Drama,” Facts on File Companion to American Drama, eds. Jackson R. Bryer and Mary Hartig; New York (2004) 340-41. “Voice and Narration in Postmodern Drama,” New Literary History 32 (2001) 681-94. Performance Review: Samuel Beckett Festival [10 plays], Scena Theater, Washington DC, April 1999. The Beckett Circle 21 (1999) 1-2. "Theatrical Space and the Domain of Endgame," The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 14.2 (Spring 2000) 14-22. "Beyond Poststructuralism: Theory of Character, the Personae of Modern Drama, and the Antinomies of Critical Theory," Modern Drama 40 (1997) 86-99. Discussion of fate, determinism, and chance in the plays of Sophocles, Shakespeare, Calderon, Tewfik al-Hakim, Ionesco, Pinter, Stoppard, and Soyinka in Unlikely Stories: Causality and the Nature of Modern Narrative. "Genre, Transgression, and the Struggle for (Self) Representation in U.S. Ethnic Drama," The Journal of American Drama and Theatre 9 (1996) 1-18. "The Struggle for the Real: Interpretive Conflict, Dramatic Method, and the Paradox of Realism," introductory essay in Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition, ed. William Demastes; Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama Press (1996) 1-17. Performance Review: Old Times, Washington Stage Guild, November 20, 1994. The Pinter Review (1995-96) 184-85. "Pinter's Landscape and the Boundaries of Narrative," Essays in Literature 18 (1991) 37-45. "The Great God Brown and the Theory of Character," The Eugene O'Neill Review 14 (1990) 16-24. "‘Hours Dreadful and Things Strange’: Inversions of Chronology and Causality in Macbeth," Philological Quarterly 68 (1989) 283-94. "Point of View in Drama: Diegetic Monologue, Unreliable Narrators, and the Author's Voice on Stage," Comparative Drama 22 (1988) 193-214. "‘Time is Out of Joint’: Narrative Models and the Temporality of the Drama," Poetics Today 8 (1987) 299-309.
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