Toward a Poetic Theory of Narration -- Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The intellectual background to Kuroda's essays -- 1.1 -- 1.2 -- 1.3 -- 2 His interest in this area (I): Problems in Japanese syntax -- 2.1 -- 2.2 -- 3 His interest in this area (II): General problems -- 3.1 -- 3.2 -- 4 The importance of Kuroda's essays in the context of current research -- 4.1 -- 4.2 -- 4.3 -- Origin of the essays -- Chapter 1 - Where epistemology, style, and grammar meet: A case study from Japanese -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 -- 10 -- 11 -- 12 -- Chapter 2 - On grammar and narration -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 -- 10 -- 11 -- 12 -- 13 -- 14 -- Chapter 3 - Reflections on the foundations of narrative theory, from a linguistic point of view -- 1 The communicational theory of narration -- 1.1 -- 1.2 -- 1.3 -- 1.4 -- 2 Criticism of the communicational theory of narration -- 2.1 -- 2.2 -- 2.3 -- 3 Towards an alternative conception of narration -- 3.1 -- 3.2 -- 3.3 -- 4 A poetic theory of narration -- 4.1 -- 4.2 -- 4.3 -- 4.4 -- 4.5 -- Chapter 4 - Some thoughts on the foundations of the theory of language use -- Chapter 5 - The reformulated theory of speech acts: Toward a theory of language use -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- Chapter 6 - A study of the so-called topic wa in passages from Tolstoi, Lawrence, and Faulkner (of course, in Japanese translation) -- 1 In lieu of an introduction and a conclusion -- 2 -- 3 -- 3.1 -- 3.2 -- 3.3 -- 3.4 -- 3.5 -- 3.6 -- 4 -- 5 -- Bibliography -- Index.