The essays included in this collection seek to take the pulse of recent developments in narratological research in the French-speaking countries. Theorists in these countries heavily participated in and shaped narratology, an outgrowth of the structuralist movement during the 1960s and 1970s. While US, German, and Scandinavian theorists took the forefront in the 1990s, narratology in France faded into the background. It was not until the turn of the century that a new interest in narratological issues among French researchers emerged. Activity in the field has since intensified, spurred on, in part, by the realization that narratology cannot be summed up by its formalist and structuralist origins.

John Pier is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Tours and a statutory member of the Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage (CNRS/EHESS) in Paris.

Contents
Introduction
            John Pier
1          Pragmatics in Classical French Narratology and Beyond
            Raphaël Baroni
2          No-Narrator Theories/Optional-Narrator Theories: Recent Proposals and Continuing Problems. Toward a History of Concepts in Narrative Theory
            Sylvie Patron
3          Narration outside Narrative
            Richard Saint-Gelais
4          Narrator on Stage: Not a Condition but a Component for a Postdramatic Narrative Discourse
            Benoît Hennaut
5          The Poetics of Suspended Narrative
            Françoise Revaz
6          Discourse Analysis and Narrative Theory: A French Perspective
            John Pier
7          Regimes of Immanence, between Narratology and Narrativity
            Denis Bertrand
8          Fiction, Expanded and Updated
            Olivier Caïra
9          Narratology and the Test of Greek Myths: The Poetic Birth of a Colonial City
            Claude Calame
10        Policing Literary Theory: Toward a Collaborative Ethics of Research?
            Françoise Lavocat
List of Contributors
Index