Narratology in Practice

"This book is so much more than a companion to Mieke Bal’s paradigm-changing Narratology. With lucidity, patience, and enormous pedagogical skill, it provides the tools necessary to understand what narrative is and what it does within and outside the literary."

Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University

"Narratology in Practice supplements Mieke Bal’s popular book Narratology with a wide range of practical analyses to demonstrate the value of narratological methods and concepts for cultural analysis. Drawing on a wealth of personal experience as filmmaker and art critic, Bal explores the interdisciplinary character of narrative analysis in various media and its concrete contributions to thinking about politics and society."

Jonathan Culler, Cornell University, and author of Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

"A useful, engaging mosaic of concepts and practices, full of suggestions and absolutely contemporary, Narratology in Practice represents a further step in the already outstanding brilliance of Bal’s theoretical proposals."

Miguel Ángel Hernández, University of Murcia