Publications

What can narrative theory and analysis learn from the study of sketches, notes, and manuscripts? Leading narratologists, such as Franz Stanzel, Dorrit Cohn, and Gérard Genette, have visited the factory of the text, as Genette calls it, in order to corroborate an argument about the nature of narrative in general or the composition of a particular narrative. However, these excursions have not led to a principled dialogue between genetic criticism ...

Recent narrative theories on story worlds, or the worlds evoked by narratives, call attention to the process of fan reading and the role which the canon plays in that process. This paper posits that such theories can help us understand literary techniques that make a difference on the level of the reading experience that is implied by fan fiction texts. This is illustrated with a close reading of Naguabo's "The Mother of All Marriage Proposals," ...

The essay offers a structure analysis of Leskov’s short story “Chertogon” focusing on its main motives and iconography. Special attention is paid to the functional role of various parts of the text and their interaction with each other. The role of narrator’s voice is examined along with the nuances of its peculiar representations in the story. The general theme of the Orthodox Christian concept of sin is another subject of the essay’s scrutiny....