This is a revised and expanded English-language edition of the 2003 Russian-language text Narratologiya (also published in German as Elemente der Narratologie). It introduces the fundamentals of a theoretical approach to narration in fiction that is heavily influenced by Russian formalism and structuralism. The focus of the discussion is on elements taken from the study of perspective, including the communication structure and entities of a narrative work, narrative point of view, and the relationship between narrator's text and characters' text, as well elements taken from the study of the sujet (the way a narrative is structured), including issues of narrativity and eventfulness and narrative transformation of happenings. For this English edition, examples taken from Russian literature have been replaced with examples from Anglophonic literatures. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)