1st Edition
Unnatural Narrative across Borders Transnational and Comparative Perspectives
Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Core Issues and Critical Debates of Unnatural Narratology
2. Unnatural Narrative: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives
3. Unnatural Narrative in Contemporary Chinese Time Travel Fiction: Patterns, Values, and Interpretive Options
4. Unnatural Narratology and Zhiguai Tales of the Six Dynasties in China
5. Delving into Impossible Storyworlds of Terror: The Unnaturalness of Hassan Blasim’s Short Narrative Fiction
6. Unnatural Emotions in Contemporary Narrative Fiction
7. Forward Thinking: Future Prospects for Unnatural Narratology
References
Biography
Biwu Shang is a Changjiang Youth Scholar and Professor of English at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He is an editor-in-chief of Frontiers of Narrative Studies (De Gruyter) and author of In Pursuit of Narrative Dynamics (Peter Lang, 2011).
