Narrative: Some Sources


Rebecca Moore Howard
The Writing Program
Syracuse University



Please note: I'm increasingly using CiteULike and del.icio.us for my bibliographic work. (On both sites you'll need to click on tags of interest.) Browse what's on this page and then check out CiteULike, del.icio.us, CompPile, and the MLA International Bibliography (requires SU ID) for more. A list of all the static bibliographies that I've put online is here.


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Last updated 14 March 2006

Adler-Kassner, Linda, and Susanmarie Harrington, eds.  Questioning Authority:  Stories Told in School.  Ann Arbor:  U Michigan P, 2001. 

Anson, Chris M., David A. Jolliffe, and Nancy Shapiro.  "Stories to Teach By:  Using Narrative Cases in TA and Faculty Development."  WPA:  Writing Program Administration 19.1-2 (Fall/Winter 1995):  24-37. 

Bazerman, Charles,  and Paul A. Prior, eds.  What Writing Does and How It Does It:  An Introduction to Analyzing Texts and Textual Practices.  Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003. 

Bizzaro, Resa Crane.  "Making Places as Teacher-Scholars in Composition Studies:  Comparing Transition Narratives."  College Composition and Communication 53:3 (February 2002):  487-506. 

Booth, Wayne C.  The Rhetoric of Fiction.  U Chicago P, 1961. 

Bowden, Darsie.  The Mythology of Voice.  Portsmouth, NH:  Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1999. 

Brady, Laura.  "La Huesera:  Articulating the Skeletons of Stories and Essays."  Questioning Authority:  Stories Told in School.  Ed. Linda Adler-Kassner and Susanmarie Harrington.  Ann Arbor:  U Michigan P, 2001.  97-114. 

Briggs, Charles, ed.  Disorderly Discourse:  Narrative, Conflict, and Inequalilty.  New York:  Oxford UP, 1996. 

Briggs, Lynn Craigue, and Meg Woolbright, eds.  Stories from the Center:  Connecting Narrative and Theory in the Writing Center.  Urbana, IL:  National Council of Teachers of English, 2000. 

Chafe, W.L., ed.  The Pear Stories:  Cognitive, Cultural and Linguistic Aspects of Narrative Production.  Norwood, NJ:  Ablex, 1980.

Chernekoff, Janice.  "Challenging the Constraints of First-Year Composition Through Ethnic Women's Narratives." Rhetoric and Ethnicity. Ed. Keith Gilyard and Vorris Nunley.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 2004.  129-136.

Cook-Sather, Alison.  "Education as Translation:  Students Transforming Notions of Narrative and Self." College Composition and Communication 55.1 (September 2003):  91-114. 

Crowhurst, Marion.  "Cohesion in Argument and Narration at Three Grade Levels."  Research in the Teaching of English 21 (1987):  185-201. 

Danto, Arthur C.  Narration and Knowledge.  Columbia UP, 1985.

Ermarth, Elizabeth.  Realism and Consensus in the English Novel:  Time, Space and Narrative.  2nd rev. ed.  Edinburgh, 1998. 

Faber, Brenton D.  Community Action and Organizational Change:  Image, Narrative, Identity.  Carbondale:  Southern Illinois UP, 2002. 

Fisher, Walter R.  Human Communication as Narration.  U South Carolina P, 1987. 

Fisher, Walter R.  "Narration, Reason, and Community."  Writing the Social Text:  Poetics and Politics in Social Science Discourse.  Ed. Richard Harvey Brown.  New York:  Aldine de Gruyter, 1992.  199-218.

Fleckenstein, Kristie S.  "Images, Words, and Narrative Epistemology."  College English 58.8 (December 1996):  914-33. 

Genette, GŽrard.  Figures III.  1972.  Rpt. Narrative Discourse.  Ithaca, NY:  Cornell UP, 1980. 

Gearhart, Maryl, and Shelby A. Wolf.  "Engaging Teachers in Assessment of Their Students' Narrative Writing:  The Role of Subject Matter Knowledge."  Assessing Writing 1.1 (1994):  67-90.

Golson, Emily.  "Using Stories to Probe Assumptions, Question Authority, and Stabilize Meaning." Questioning Authority:  Stories Told in School.  Ed. Linda Adler-Kassner and Susanmarie Harrington.  Ann Arbor:  U Michigan P, 2001.  77-96. 

Gorak, Jan.  "The Public Intellectual and the Uses of Narrative." Denver Quarterly 31.1 (Summer 1996).

Groopman, Jerome.  "Dying Words."  The New Yorker 28 October 2002:  62-70.  [file Argument]

Hayles, N. Katherine.  "Narratives of Evolution and the Evolution of Narratives."  Cooperation and Conflict in General Evolutionary Processes.  Ed. John L. Casti and Anders Karlqvist.  New York:  John Wiley and Sons, 1994.  113-132. 

Heath, Shirley Brice.  "Stories as Ways of Acting Together." The Need for Story: Cultural Diversity in Classroom and Community. Eds. Anne Haas Dyson and Celia Genishi.  Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1994.  206-20.

Hesse, Douglas D.  "Stories, Style, and the Exploitation of Experience." Questioning Authority:  Stories Told in School.  Ed. Linda Adler-Kassner and Susanmarie Harrington.  Ann Arbor:  U Michigan P, 2001.  19-33. 

Hobbs, Catherine. "The Red and the Black: Life Narrative and Ethics." JAC 25.2 (2005): 407-418.

Huesca, Robert, and Brenda Dervin.  "Hypertext and Journalism:  Audiences Respond to Competing News Narratives."  Democracy and New Media.  Ed. Henry Jenkins and David Thorburn.  Cambridge, MA:  MIT P, 2003.  281-308. 

Journet, Debra.  "Forms of Discourse and the Sciences of the Mind:  Luria, Sacks, and the Role of Narrative in Neurological Case Histories."  Written Communication 7 (April 1990):  171-99.

Juzwik, Mary M. "The Dialogization of Genres in Teaching Narrative: Theorizing Hybrid Genres in Classroom Discourse." Across the Disciplines 1 (2004).

Kort, Wesley A.  Modern Fiction and Human Time:  A Study in Narrative and Belief.  Gainesville:  UP of Florida, 1985. 

Liest¿l, Gunnar.  "Wittgenstein, Genette, and the Reader's Narrative in Hypertext."  Hyper/Text/Theory.  Ed. George P. Landow.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins UP, 1994.  87-120.

Lincoln, Bruce.  Theorizing Myth:  Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship.  U Chicago P, 1999. 

Literacy. 

Loomis, Ormond.  "From Oral Narratives to Written Essays." The Subject is Writing:  Essays by Teachers and Students.  Ed. Wendy Bishop.  2nd. ed.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 1999.  45-54. 

MacCurdy, Marian.  "From Image to Narrative:  The Politics of the Personal." Journal of Teaching Writing 13.1-2 (1994):  75-108. 

Makdisi, Saree.  "Laying Claim to Beirut:  Urban Narrative and Spatial Identity in the Age of Solidere."  Critical Inquiry 23.3 (Spring 1997):  661-705. 

Michaels, Sarah, and Richard Sohmer.  "Narratives and Inscriptions:  Cultural Tools, Power and Powerful Sense-Making."  Multiliteracies:  Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures.  Ed. Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis.  New York:  Routledge, 2000.  267-288.

Miller, Richard E. As if Learning Mattered: Reforming Higher Education. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1998. 

Mitchell, W.J.T.  On Narrative.  U Chicago P, 1981. 

Modes. 

Moffett, James.  Teaching the Universe of Discourse.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1968. 

Moldoveanu, Mihnea, and Nitin Nohria.  Master Passions: Emotion, Narrative, and the Development of Culture.  MIT, 2002. 

Nash, Cristopher, ed.  Narrative in Culture:  Storytelling in the Sciences, Philosophy and Literature.  New York:  Routledge, 1995. 

Personal narrative. 

Phelan, James.  Narrative as Rhetoric:  Technique, Audiences, Ethics, Ideology.  Columbus, OH:  Ohio State UP, 1996. 

Prickett, Stephen.  Origins of Narrative:  The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible. New York:  Cambridge UP, 1996. 

Prince, Gerald.  Narratology:  The Form and Functioning of Narrative.  New York:  Mouton de Gruyter, 1982.

Redfield, Karen A.  "Opening the Composition Classroom to Storytelling:  Respecting Native American Students' Use of Rhetorical Strategies."  Perspectives on Written Argument.  Ed. Deborah P. Berrill.  Cresskill, NJ:  Hampton, 1996. 

Reynolds, Gordon.  "Dialogism and the Narrative Paradigm."  Composition Forum 9.2 (Fall 1998):  9-19. 

Rischin, Abigail S.  "Beside the Reclining Statue:  Ekphrasis, Narrative, and Desire in Middlemarch."  PMLA 111.5 (October 1996):  1121-32. 

Ritchie, Joy, and David Wilson.  Teacher Narrative as Critical Inquiry:  Rewriting the Script.  New York:  Teachers College P, 2000. 

Robillard, Amy E.  "It's Time for Class:  Toward a More Complex Pedagogy of Narrative."  College English 66.1 (September 2003):  74-92.

Rouse, John, and Edward Katz.  Unexpected Voices:  Theory, Practice, and Identity in the Writing Classroom.  Cresskill, NJ:  Hampton, 2003. 

Schilb, John.  "Toward a Rhetoric of Visual Fragments:  Analyzing Disjunctive Narratives."  JAC 22.4 (2002). 

Scollon, Ronald, and Suzanne Wong Scollon.  Narrative, Literacy, and Face in Interethnic Communication.  Norwood, NJ:  Ablex, 1981. 

Scorczewski, Dawn.  "Want to Tell a True Story about First-Year College Writing Programs?"  Questioning Authority:  Stories Told in School.  Ed. Linda Adler-Kassner and Susanmarie Harrington.  Ann Arbor:  U Michigan P, 2001.  168-186. 

Secor, Marie J.  "Narratives of Ethnicity:  A Tale of Two Nonnys." Rhetoric and Ethnicity. Ed. Keith Gilyard and Vorris Nunley.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 2004.  119-128.

Soliday, Mary.  "Translating Self and Difference through Literacy Narratives."  College English 56 (1994):  511-526.  Rpt. Dialogue on Writing:  Rethinking ESL, Basic Writing, and First-Year Composition.  Ed. Geraldine DeLuca, Len Fox, Mark-Ameen Johnson, and Myra Kogen.  Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002.

Spigelman, Candace.  "Teaching Expressive Writing as a Narrative Fiction."  JAC 16.1 (1996):  119-40. 

Stephens, Patricia A.  "A Move toward 'Academic Citizenship':  Reading Emotion in the Narrative Structures of Part-Time Faculty."  WPA:  Writing Program Administration 27.3 (Spring 2004):  35-52. 

Stygall, Gail. "Narrative Discourse Analysis and Legal Texts." Discourse Studies in Composition.  Eds. Ellen L. Barton and Gail Stygall.  Cresskill, NJ:  Hampton P, 2002.

Summerfield, Judith.  "Is There a Life in This Text?  Reimagining Narrative."  Writing Theory and Critical Theory.  Ed. John Clifford and John Schilb.  New York:  Modern Language Association, 1994.  179-94.

Summerfield, Judith.  "Principles for Propagation:  On Narrative and Argument."  Argument Revisited, Argument Redefined.  Ed. Barbara Emmel.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage, 1996. 

Swiencicki, Jill. "The Rhetoric of Awareness Narratives." College English 68.4 (Mar. 2006): 337-355.

Taylor, Bryan C. "Reminiscences of Los Alamos:  Narrative, Critical Theory, and the Organizational Subject."  Critical Questions:  Invention, Creativity, and the Criticism of Discourse and Media.  Ed. William L. Nothstine, Carole Blair, and Gary A. Copeland.  New York:  St. Martin's, 1994.  417-48. 

Thomas, Sharon, Julie Bevins, and Mary Ann Crawford.  "The Portfolio Project:  Sharing Our Stories."  Writing Center Research:  Extending the Conversation.  Ed. Paula Gillespie, Alice Gillam, Lady Falls Brown, and Byron Stay. Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002.  149-166. 

Toolan, Michael J.  Narrative:  A Critical Linguistic Introduction.  Routledge, 1989.

Trimmer, Joseph F., ed.  Narration as Knowledge:  Tales of the Teaching Life.  Portsmouth, NH:  Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1997. 

Tufte, Edward R.  Visual Explanations:  Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative.  Cheshire, CT:  Graphics P, 1997. 

Turner, Brian, and Judith Kearns.  "Writing and Reading History:  Teaching Narrative in a Linked Writing Course."  Journal of Teaching Writing 15.1 (1996):  3-24. 

VanDe Weghe, Rick.  "Teaching Writing as Story."  Journal of Teaching Writing 19.1-2 (2001):  14-29. 

Verene, Donald Phillip.  "Philosophy, Argument, and Narration." Philosophy and Rhetoric 22.2 (1989):  141-144. 

Webb, Patricia R.  "Telling Stories in/out of Class:  Writing Narratives about Writing."  Composition Forum 10.1 (Spring/Summer 1999):  30-53. 

Welch, Nancy.  "The Return of the Suppressed:  Tutoring Stories in a Transitional Space."  Writing Center Research:  Extending the Conversation.  Ed. Paula Gillespie, Alice Gillam, Lady Falls Brown, and Byron Stay. Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002.  203-220. 

White, Hayden.  The Content of the Form:  Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins UP, 1987. 

White, Hayden.  Figural Realism:  Studies in the Mimesis Effect.  Baltimore, MD:  Johns Hopkins UP, 1999. 

Zawacki, Terry Myers.  "Telling Stories:  The Subject Is Never Just me." Questioning Authority:  Stories Told in School.  Ed. Linda Adler-Kassner and Susanmarie Harrington.  Ann Arbor:  U Michigan P, 2001.  34-52.