Raphael Baroni: tellability; Ute Berns: performitiy; Didier Coste: narrative levels; Catherine Emmott / Marc Alexander: schemata; Monika Fludernik: conversational narration, oral narration; mediacy; David Herman: cognitive narratology; Peter Huhn: event and eventfulness; Peter Huhn / Roy Sommer: narration in other literary genres; Fotis Jannidis: character; Hans Krah: film narration; Amia Lieblich: identity and narration; Uri Margolin: narrator; Brian McHale: speech representation; Matias Martinez: author, coherence; Jan Christoph Meister: narratology; Norbert Meuter: narration in various disciplines; Birgit Neumann / Ansgar Nunning: metanarration and metafictionality; John Pier: metalepsis; Gerald Prince: reader; Marie-Laure Ryan: narration in other media, space; Jean-Marie Schaeffer: fictional vs factual narration; Michael Scheffel: narrative constitution; Wolf Schmid: free indirect discourse, implied author; David Shepherd: dialogism; Meir Sternberg: narrativity; Carola Surkamp / Marion Gymnich: perspective; Michael Titzmann: sequentiality, time; Waleri Tjupa: heteroglossia; Werner Wolf: illusion.
This handbook in English provides a systematic overview of the present state of international research in narratology. In a main section they present a critical account of the major research positions and their historical development and indicate directions for future research;