Readership: Students and scholars of philosophy, history, literature, and psychology
Gregory Currie, Nottingham University
"a rich study." - Adriana Boneta, Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
"abounds in analyses and arguments as Currie identifies and interrogates (generally successfully) strong counter-theses that challenge his own" - Daniel D. Hutto, Times Literary Supplement
"I expect Gregory Currie's new book, Narratives and Narrators, to attain the same importance and influence in philosophical thinking about narrative that his earlier books The Nature of Fiction and Image and Mind have had in the philosophy of fiction and film, respectively. It is an ambitious, careful, and philosophically rich work containing a number of novel and important arguments... The book has many virtues, and the greatest of them might be that it opens up new areas for exploration in the philosophic study of narrative." - James Harold, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"The book is ambitious in its topics and contains fresh approaches to various traditional problems ... full of thought-provoking arguments and intriguing proposals." - Jukka Mikkonen, Mind
"This fairly short book does a lot of work ... consistently challenging" - Raphael Lyne, Cambridge Quarterly
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
