"For the specialist in the study of narrative structure, this is a solid and very perceptive exploration of the issues salient to the telling of a story—whate

Provides a comprehensive approach to a general theory of narrative, in both verbal and visual media.

O'Neill investigates the extent to which narrative discourse subverts the story it tells in foregrounding its own performance.

What legitimate form can history take when faced by the severe challenges issued in recent years by literary, rhetorical, multiculturalist, and feminist theorie