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\nJAMES PHELAN  \nROBERT KELLOGG  \nOxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education.  \nOxford New York  \nAuckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto  \nWith offices in  \nArgentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam  \nCopyright © 1966, 2006 by Oxford University Press  \nPublished by Oxford University Press, Inc.  \n198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016  \n[www.oup.com](www.oup.com)  \nOxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press.  \nAaron’s Rod by D. H. Lawrence (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988)© the Estate of Freida Lawrence Ravagli. Reproduced by permission of the  \nproprietor and Pollinger Limited.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Scholes, Robert E.  \nThe nature of narrative / Robert Scholes, James Phelan, Robert Kellogg.—Fortieth anniversary ed., rev. and expanded,  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-19-515175-6 (cloth)  \nISBN-13: 978-0-19-515176-3 (pbk.)  \n1. Fiction—History and criticism.  \nI. Phelan, James, 1951-  \nII. Kellogg, Robert.  \nIII. Title.  \nPN3451. S3 2006 809.3—dc22 2006009443  \nIn Memory of Robert L. Kellogg ( 1928–2004)  \nContents  \nPreface to the Second Edition by Robert Scholes  \nPreface to the Second Edition by James Phelan  \n1. The Narrative Tradition  \n2. The Oral Heritage of Written Narrative  \n3. The Classical Heritage of Modern Narrative  \n4. Meaning in Narrative  \n5. Character in Narrative  \n6. Plot in Narrative  \n7. Point of View in Narrative  \n8. Narrative Theory, 1966-2006: A Narrative  \nAppendix  \nNotes  \nBibliography  \nIndex  \nPreface to the Second Edition by Robert Scholes  \nForty years is a long time for an academic book to remain in print—especially one written by a couple of brash young scholars with no academic standing to speak of. But that is the case of the present volume. The book began in discussions between Bob Kellogg and myself about a sophomore course we had invented at the University of Virginia, in which we spent a year covering narrative literature from Homer to Joyce. We taught the course more than once and used to walk home together talking about it nearly every day. The book emerged from those classes and those conversations—and from the studying the course required on our parts, which was considerable.  \nIn some ways, we were the ideal people to have done such a course. Kellogg had gone to Harvard for graduate study, driven by an interest in James Joyce. Since he was a thorough person, he started his studies with the middle ages—and never emerged from them. When we met he was working on Old Icelandic literature in particular, but his mastery of both medieval European literature and literary modernism was impressive. I had gone to Cornell, partly because their graduate program allowed for a concentration in the novel as a genre, which was quite rare in the 1950s. My MA thesis and doctoral dissertation were in twentieth century American and English fiction, but my training covered the novel as a whole, and at Virginia I taught everything from eighteenth century British fiction to twentieth century American. 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