Surveys many basic areas of narrative studies from an unnatural perspective: story, time, space, voice, minds, narrative levels, realism, nonfiction, hyperficti

The first extended account of the concepts and history of unnatural narrative.

In recent years, the study of unnatural narratives has become an exciting new but still disparate research program in narrative theory. For the first time, this

A talking body part, a character that is simultaneously alive and dead, a shape-changing setting, or time travel: although impossible in the real world, such na

This anthology brings together essential essays on major facets of narrative dynamics, that is, the means by which "narratives traverse their often unlikely rou