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ABIBLIOGRAPHYOFLITERARYTHEORY,CRITICISMANDPHILOLOGY
http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.html

byJosngelGARCALANDA
(UniversityofZaragoza,Spain)

SEYMOURCHATMAN

(19282015)

(SeymourBenjaminChatman,USnarratologist,ProfessorEmeritusofRhetoric
andFilmStudies,UofCalifornia,Berkeley;WayneC.BoothAward2012)

Works
Chatman, Seymour. "Comparing Metrical Styles." In Style in
Language. Ed.ThomasA.Sebeok.London:MITPress,1960.
14972.
_____."TheComponentsofEnglishMeter."InFreeman,Linguistics
andLiteraryStyle30935.
_____.ATheoryofMeter.TheHague:Mouton,1965.
_____. "Style: A Narrow View". College Composition and
Communication18(1967):7276.
_____. "New Ways of Analyzing Narrative Structure, with an
Example from Joyce's Dubliners." Language and Style 2
(1969):336.
_____."OnDefining'Form'."NewLiteraryHistory2(1971).
_____."Lastrutturadellacomunicazioneletteraria."Strumenticritici
23(1971):140.
_____."Ritmo,metro,esecuzione."InCremanteandPazzaglia1972.
99108.
_____.TheLaterStyleofHenryJames.Oxford:Blackwell,1972.
_____."OntheFormalistStructuralistTheoryofCharacter."Journal
ofLiterarySemantics1(1972):5779.
_____. "Narration and Point of View in Fiction and the Cinema."
Poetica1(1974).
_____. "The Structure of Narrative Transmision." In Style and
StructureinLiterature. Ed.RogerFowler.Ithaca:CornellUP,
1975.21357.

_____."TheStructureofNarrativeTransmission."InLiteraryTheory:
An Anthology. Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. 2nd ed.
Oxford:Blackwell,2004.
_____.StoryandDiscourse:NarrativeStructureinFictionandFilm.
Ithaca:CornellUP,1978.*1980.
_____.Historiaydiscurso:Laestructuranarrativaenlanovelayen
elcine. Trans.MaraJessFernndezPrieto.Madrid:Taurus,
1990.*
_____. "Introduction" to Story and Discourse. Ithaca: Cornell UP,
1978. 1542. In Structuralism: Critical Concepts in Literary
andCulturalStudies.Ed.JonathanCuller.London:Routledge,
2006.Vol.2.
_____."Discourse:NonnarratedStories."InEssentialsoftheTheory
of Fiction. Ed. Michael J. Hoffman and Patrick D. Murphy.
Durham(NC):DukeUP,1988.36679.*
_____."Discourse:CovertversusOvertNarrators."From Storyand
Discourse.InTheNovel:AnAnthologyofCriticismandTheory
19002000.Ed.DorothyJ.Hale.Blackwell,2006.21928.*
_____.ReviewofNarrativeDiscourse,byGrardGenette.Journalof
AestheticsandArtCriticism39(Winter1980).
_____."WhatNovelsCanDoThatFilmsCan't(andViceVersa)."In
OnNarrative.Ed.W.J.T.Mitchell.Chicago:UofChicagoP,
1981.
_____."WhatNovelsCanDoThatFilmsCan't(andViceVersa)."
1980.InFilmTheoryandCriticism:IntroductoryReadings.5th
ed.Ed.LeoBraudyandMarshallCohen.NewYork:Oxford
UP,1999.43551.*
_____ ."What is Descriptionin theCinema?" CinemaJournal 23
(Summer1984):411.
_____."CharactersandNarrators:Filter,Center,Slant,andInterest
Focus."PoeticsToday7.2(1986):189224.
_____.ReviewofDavidBordwell's NarrationintheFictionFilm.
WideAngle8(1986):13941.
_____.ReviewofEdwardBranigan's PointofViewintheCinema.
FilmQuarterly40(Fall1986):456.
_____."ControversyandCorrespondence:NarrationIssues."Replyto
EdwardBranigan.FilmQuarterly41(Fall1987):635.
_____."WhoIstheBestNarrator?TheCaseofTheThirdMan."Style
23(Summer1989):18396.

_____. "The 'Rhetoric' 'of' 'Fiction'." In Reading Narrative: Form,

Ethics,Ideology.Ed.JamesPhelan.Columbus:OhioStateUP,
1989.
_____. ComingtoTerms:TheRhetoricofNarrativeinFictionand
Film.Ithaca(NY):CornellUP,1990.
_____.FromComingtoTerms("TheCinematicNarrator").1990. In
FilmTheoryandCriticism:IntroductoryReadings.5thed.Ed.
LeoBraudyandMarshallCohen.NewYork:OxfordUP,1999.
47386.*
_____. "What Can We Learn from Contextualist Narratology?."
PoeticsToday11.2(1990):309328.*
_____."NarratologicalEmpowerment."Narrative1.1(1993):5965.*
_____."HowLooseCanNarratorsGet?(AndHowVulnerableCan
NarrateesBe?)."Narrative3.3:303306.*
_____. ReadingNarrativeFiction. WithmaterialbyBrianAttebery.
New York: Macmillan, 1993.* (Short stories: anthology and
analysis).
_____."Introduction:ThePleasuresofReadingFiction."InChatman,
ReadingNarrativeFiction.NewYork:Macmillan,1993.16.*
_____."WhatIsNarrative?SomeBasicTerms."InChatman,Reading
Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan, 1993. 719.* (The
TextTypes;GettingthePoint;TheMeaningof'Fiction';Story
andDiscourse).
_____. "Plot." InChatman, Reading Narrative Fiction. New York:
Macmillan,1993.2057.*(Definition;Closedandopenplots;
StoryTime and DiscourseTime; Narrative Order and
Duration).
_____. "Character and Setting." In Chatman, Reading Narrative
Fiction.NewYork:Macmillan,1993.5889.*
_____. "Narration: Narrator and Narratee." In Chatman, Reading
Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan, 1993. 90129.*
(Telling:InternalandExternalNarratees;Showing:Impersonal
Narration;OmniscienceandLimitation;TheNarratee).
_____. "Point of View: Character's Filter and Slant." In Chatman,
ReadingNarrativeFiction.NewYork:Macmillan,1993.130
85.* (Character's Filter; The FilterCharacter Is Not the
Narrator; Narrator's Slant; The Grammar of Filter; filter in
InternalNarration).
_____. "Narrative Irony." In Chatman, Reading Narrative Fiction.
New York: Macmillan, 1993. 186239.* (Definitions of

SituationalandVerbalIrony;SituationalandVerbalIronyin
NarrativeFiction;FallibleFilters;UnreliableNarration).
_____. "Authors and Readers: Real and Implied." In Chatman,
ReadingNarrativeFiction.NewYork:Macmillan,1993.240
72.*(TheRealAuthor;theImpliedAuthor;TheImpliedAuthor
IsNottheNarrator;ProblemsSolveddbytheNotionofImplied
Author;TheRealjackLondonandTwoDifferentImplied'Jack
Londons'; The Real Reader and the Implied Reader; The
ImpliedReaderIsNottheNarratee).
_____. "Theme and Ideology." In Chatman, Reading Narrative
Fiction. New York: Macmillan, 1993. 273303.* (The
Definition of 'Theme'; Thesis; How to Formulate a Theme;
Ideology; The Invisibility of Ideology; Dealing with the
IdeologiesofFictions).
_____."NarrativeLimits:ExperimentalandPostmodernFiction."In
Chatman, Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan,
1993.*(UnderminingConventions;QuestioningtheDiscourse;
Attacks on the Discourse by the Story; Filter at Odds with
Itself).
_____."HowtoWriteaboutFiction."InChatman,ReadingNarrative
Fiction.NewYork:Macmillan,1993.60324.*
_____. "New Directions in VoiceNarrated Cinema." In
Narratologies. Ed.DavidHerman.Columbus:OhioStateUP,
1999.31539.*
_____ "Ironic Perspective." In New Perspectives on Narrative
Perspective. Ed.WillievanPeerandSeymourChatman.New
York:SUNYPress,2001.11731.
_____. "Ironic Perspective: Conrad's Secret Agent." In New
PerspectivesonNarrativePerspective.Ed.WillievanPeerand
SeymourChatman.Albany:SUNYPress,2001.11732.*
_____. "Mrs. Dalloway's Progeny: The Hours as Seconddegree
Narrative." In A Companion to Narrative Theory. Ed. James
Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz. Malden (MA): Blackwell,
2005.26982.*
_____."Backwards."Narrative17.1(2009):3155.*
_____,ed.LiteraryStyle:ASymposium.London:OxfordUP,1971.
_____,ed.ApproachestoPoetics.NewYork:ColumbiaUP,1973.
Chatman, Seymour, Umberto Eco and J. M. Klinkenberg, eds. A
SemioticLandscape/Panoramasmiotique:Proceedingsofthe
First Congressof theInternationalAssociationof Semiotics,

Milan 1974. (Approaches to Semiotics, 29). The Hague:

Mouton,1979.
Chatman, Seymour, and Samuel R. Levin, eds. Essays on the
LanguageofLiterature.Boston:Houghton,1967.
Peer,Willievan,andSeymourChatman,eds. NewPerspectiveson
Narrative Perspective. (SUNY series The Margins of
Literature).Albany:SUNYPress,2001.*
Criticism
Bialostosky, Don. H. "Bakhtin versus Chatman on Narrative: The
HabilitationoftheHero." UniversityofOttawaQuarterly 53
(1983):10916.
Bonnycastle, S., and A. Kohn. "G. Genette and S. Chatman on
Narrative."JournalofPracticalStructuralism2(1980).
Culler,Jonathan."FabulaandSjuzhetintheAnalysisofNarrative:
SomeAmericanDiscussions."PoeticsToday1.3(1980):2737.
_____. "Fabula and Sjuzhet in the Analysis of Narrative: Some
American Discussions." Selection. In Narratology: An
Introduction.Ed.SusanaOnegaandJosAngelGarcaLanda.
London:Longman,1996.93102.*
_____."StoryandDiscourseintheAnalysisofNarrative."InCuller,
The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction.
London:RoutledgeandKeganPaul,1981.16987.*(2nded.
2001:188208).*
_____. "Story and Discourse in the Analysis of Narrative." From
Culler,ThePursuitofSigns.Ithaca:CornellUP,1981.7094.In
Structuralism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural
Studies.Ed.JonathanCuller.London:Routledge,2006.Vol.4.
Hale, Dorothy. "ISSN Awards 2012 Seymour Chatman."
InternationaalSocietyfortheStudyofNarrative
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Herman,David.Rev.of NewPerspectivesonNarrativePerspective.
Ed. Willie van Peer and Seymour Chatman. Albany: SUNY
Press, 2001. Style 35.3 (Fall 2001): 56166. In Literature
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5/7/04
Jahn, Manfred. Review of Seymour Chatman's Coming to Terms.
EuropeanEnglishMessenger1.3(1992):503.

Leitch,Thomas."TwelveFallaciesinAdaptationTheory." Criticism
45.2(2003):149171.(Vs.Chatman).
LinharesDias, Rui. "2. Linguistics in Narratology: A Critical
HistoricalSurvey."InLinharesDias,HowtoShowThingswith
Words:AStudyonLogic,LanguageandLiterature.Berlin/New
York:MoutondeGruyter,2006.55106.*(Ingarden,Mller,
Weinrich, Uspensky, Barthes, Chatman, Prince, Caenepeel,
Chafe).
Sasaki,Toru."TowardsaSystematicDescriptionofNarrative'Point
of View': An Examination of Chatman's Theory with an
Analysisof'TheBlindMan'byD.H.Lawrence." Language
andLiterature3.2(1994):12538.
Shaw,HarryE."ThinDescription:AReplytoSeymourChatman."
Narrative3.3:307314.*
Thwaites,Tony."TwoEleaticTales:JohnA.Scott,SeymourChatman
and Some Occlusions of Narrative." Journal of Narrative
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Editedworks

LiteraryStyle:
Halliday, M. A. K. "Linguistic Function and Literary Style: An
Inquiry into the Language of William Golding's The

Inheritors."InLiteraryStyle.Ed.SeymourChatman.Oxford:
OxfordUP,1971.330365.*

ALandscapeofSemiotics:

Gombrich, E. H. "Map and Mirror: Theories of Pictorial

Representation." 1974. In A Landscape of Semiotics. Ed. S.
Chatman,U.EcoandJ.M.Klinkenberg.TheHague:Mouton,
1979.

ReadingNarrativeFiction:
Atwood,Margaret."TheSinEater."InReadingNarrativeFiction.By
SeymourChatmanwithBrianAttebery.NewYork:Macmillan,
1993.*
Barth,John."LostintheFunhouse."InReadingNarrativeFiction.By
SeymourChatmanwithBrianAttebery.NewYork:Macmillan,
1993.*
Bierce,Ambrose."AnOccurrenceatOwlCreekBridge."InReading
NarrativeFiction.BySeymourChatmanwithBrianAttebery.
NewYork:Macmillan,1993.*
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "Wakefield." Story. 1837. In Reading
NarrativeFiction.BySeymourChatmanwithBrianAttebery.
NewYork:Macmillan,1993.*
Jolley,Elizabeth."WednesdaysandFridays."In ReadingNarrative
Fiction.BySeymourChatmanwithBrianAttebery.NewYork:
Macmillan,1993.*
O'Connor,Frank."TheDrunkard."In ReadingNarrativeFiction.By
SeymourChatmanwithBrianAttebery.NewYork:Macmillan,
1993.*
Twain,Mark."TheCelebratedJumpingFrogofCalaverasCounty."In
ReadingNarrativeFiction.BySeymourChatmanwithBrian
Attebery.NewYork:Macmillan,1993.*

Wharton,Edith."RomanFever."In ReadingNarrativeFiction. By
SeymourChatmanwithBrianAttebery.NewYork:Macmillan,
1993.*