In recent years, the study of unnatural narratives has become an exciting new but still disparate research program in narrative theory. For the first time, this

The first extended account of the concepts and history of unnatural narrative.

A talking body part, a character that is simultaneously alive and dead, a shape-changing setting, or time travel: although impossible in the real world, such na

Provides extensions and reconceptions of unnatural narratology, and intervenes in major debates in narratology, critical theory, and narrative analysis.

Surveys many basic areas of narrative studies from an unnatural perspective: story, time, space, voice, minds, narrative levels, realism, nonfiction, hyperficti