Narratives and Narrators

• An original examination of the role of narrative in human thought
• The first book in analytical philosophy to present a general theory of narrative
• Opens up a rich new area of philosophical research
• Wide range of literary and cultural reference
• Features detailed case-study of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds

Readership: Students and scholars of philosophy, history, literature, and psychology

Gregory Currie, Nottingham University

Gregory Currie is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham.

"a rich study." - Adriana Boneta,Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory

Preface
Acknowledgements
Analytical contents
1: Representation
2: The content of narrative
3: Two ways of looking at a narrative
4: Authors and narrators
5: Expression and imitation
6: Resistance
7: Character-focused narration
8: Irony: a pretended point of view
9: Dis-interpretation
10: Narrative and character
11: Character scepticism
In Conclusion
Bibliography
Indexes