Books in the Frontiers of Narrative series

Provides a powerful explanatory account of narrative organization

While plot is among the integral aspects of storytelling, it is perhaps the least studied aspect of narrative. Using plot theory to chart the development of narrative fiction from the Renaissance to the present, this title demonstrates how the novel has evolved over time and how writers have developed increasingly complex narrative strategies.

Explores how media, old and new, give birth to various types of storyworlds and provide different ways of experiencing them, inviting readers to join an ongoing theoretical conversation focused on the question: how can narratology achieve media-consciousness?