Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Nature and Purpose of Narratology -- The Preconditions of a Narratology -- A Tale of the Paradoxes of Telling -- The Day History Ran out of Time -- 2. The Structure and Formation of Narrative Meaning -- The Structure of Narrative Utterances -- A Transformational Model of the Kinds of Predication -- From Narrateme to Narrative Significance -- 3. Narrative and Verbal Art: Literariness in Communication -- A Critique of Noncommunicative and Self-Oriented Notions of Literature -- A Model for (artistic) Communication -- Toward an Operational Definition of Literariness -- Operations of Literariness -- 4. A Manmade Universe? or, The Question of Fictionality -- First Prize: Meet the Character of Your Choice -- Polyreference and Comparatio -- Genres of Fictionality -- Three Brief Examples -- Final Remarks -- 5. Who's Who and Who Does What in the Tale Told -- Doing Something and Being Somebody: Actants and Actors -- Doing or Having Something Done to You: Agents and Patients -- Ways of Being Involved in Narrative -- Agents and Unity of Narrative -- 6. Voices: Knowing, Telling, and Showing It or Not -- Narrators -- Points of View and Information -- Enunciation and Information in a Fairy Tale -- Dialogic Enunciation -- 7. Binding and Unfolding: on Narrative Syntax -- The Principles of Narrative Syntax -- Textual Memory: The Syntax of The Recognitions -- Open and Covert Discursive Articulations in Dante's Vita Nuova -- 8. Narrative Economy: A Dissident Approach to Logic and Necessity -- General Economy and Textual Economy -- Materials, Transformation, and Production of Narrative -- Transformation, Displacement, and Profits of Meaning -- 9. Narrative within Genres and Media -- The Reality of Genre -- "Formal" Typologies and the Frontiers of Narrative.

Narrative in a Discourse of Truth: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Historiography -- Narrative through Nonlinguistic Media -- 10. What Tales Tell Us to Do and Think, and How (Narrative and Didactic Constructions of Meaning) -- The Didactic Construction of Meaning -- Soft Didacticism -- or, the Deliberation of Desire -- Authority and the Play of Exchange -- Family Romance and Other Exemplary Narratives -- Self-limitation, Self-Generation, Self-Destructive Teaching, and Other Related Problems for Further Investigation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.