Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Beyond Caracciolo’s interventions in narrative theory and studies of reader response to literary texts, Strange Narrators is valuable because of its focused attention to online reviews of fiction."—Mary Foltz,
The Year’s Work in English Studies“The book’s argument is as complex as it is ambitious and very much on the front lines of current work in reception, reader-response, cognitive literary study, and narratology. . . . It should have a strong market not only among narratologists and cognitive literary theorists, but a wide range of literary theorists of many stripes.”—H. Porter Abbott, professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of
The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative “The particular approach, methodology, and corpus make this contribution quite innovative and yield valuable insights and results.”—Rüdiger Heinze, professor of American literary and cultural studies at the University of Brunswick–Institute of Technology in Germany
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Spiders on Drugs: A Prologue
Introduction: Minding Characters
1. Patterns of Cognitive Dissonance
2. Two Child Narrators
3. Madness between Violence and Insight
4. A Strange Mood
5. Tales of Rats and Pigs
6. Obsessive Narrators, Unstable Knowledge
Coda: Uses of the Character-Centered Illusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index
