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