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Biographical note: John Pier, University of Tours and Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage CNRS, Paris, France; José Ángel García Landa, University of Zaragoza, Spain.
Theorizing Narrativity is a collective work by an international array of leading specialists in narrative theory. It provides new perspectives on the nature of narrative and narrativity, genre theory, narrative semiotics and communication theory. Most contributions center on the specificity of literary fiction, but each chapter investigates a different dimension of narrativity with many issues dealt with in innovative ways (including oral storytelling, the law, video games, causality, intertextuality and the theory of reading).