Contents -- 1. Representation -- 1.1. Artefactual Functions -- 1.2. Narrative and Story Content -- 1.3. Implicit and Explicit -- 1.4. Nature's Narratives? -- 1.5. Implied Authors -- 1.6. Looking Ahead -- 2. The Content of Narrative -- 2.1. Causes -- 2.2. Narrativity -- 2.3. Weighing Factors -- 2.4. Causal History -- 2.5. Coincidence and Humean Cause -- 2.6. Salient Possibilities -- Appendix: Cheap Talk and Costly Signals -- 3. Two Ways of Looking at a Narrative -- 3.1. Limits to the Content Approach to Narrative -- 3.2. Telling the Time in Marienbad -- 3.3. Possibility, Probability, Evidence -- 3.4. Representational Correspondence -- 4. Authors and Narrators -- 4.1. A Distinction without a Difference? -- 4.2. Implied and Second Authors -- 4.3. A Concession -- 4.4. A Note on Non-fiction -- 4.5. Should there be a Presumption in Favour of the Internal Narrator? -- 5. Expression and Imitation -- 5.1. The Framing Effect of Point of View -- 5.2. Conversation, Framing, and Joint Attention -- 5.3. Joint Attending and Guided Attending -- 5.4. Imitation -- 5.5. Imitating the Unreal -- 5.6. The Standard Model -- Appendix: Expression and the Reliability of Signalling -- 6. Resistance -- 6.1. Kinds of Resistance -- 6.2. Abilities -- 6.3. The Evolution of Resistance -- 6.4. Confusing Framework and Content -- 6.5. Conclusion -- 7. Character-focused Narration -- 7.1. Genette's Distinction -- 7.2. The Knowledge Criterion -- 7.3. Expression -- 7.4. Focalization -- 7.5. Context Shifting -- 7.6. Empathy -- 7.7. Conclusion -- 8. Irony: A Pretended Point of View -- 8.1. Ironic Situations -- 8.2. Representational Irony -- 8.3. Points of View -- 8.4. Responding to Criticism -- 8.5. Pretence of Manner -- 8.6. Ironic Narration -- 9. Dis-interpretation -- 9.1. Irony in Pictures -- 9.2. Point of View Shots -- 9.3. Ironic Narration.

9.4. The Birds and the Psyche: Internal vs External Perspective -- 9.5. Irony and Horror: The Tradition -- 9.6. Science and the Supernatural -- 10. Narrative and Character -- 10.1. Preliminaries -- 10.2. Some Claims about Character -- 10.3. What Narrative does for Character -- 10.4. What Character does for Narrative -- 10.5. Character and the Critic -- 11. Character Scepticism -- 11.1. The Case against Character -- 11.2. Response -- 11.3. Simplifying the Problem -- 11.4. The Role of Character in Narrative -- 11.5. Reflections -- Appendix: Character and the Costs of Deception -- 12. In Conclusion -- 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 -- Y -- Z.