Preface
The still waters of narrative: the boring and the plotless. James Phelan: Conversational and authorial disclosure in the dialogue novel: the case of The friends of Eddie Coyle
Matti Hyvärinen: Resistance to plot and uneven narrativity: a journey from "a boring story" to The rings of Saturn
Bo Pettersson: What happens when nothing happens: interpreting narrative technique in the plotless novels of Nicholson Baker
Laura Karttunen: Events can be quoted (and words need not be)
Samuli Hägg: Pynchon's poetics of boredom: cognitive and textual aspects of novelistic dreariness
A web of sense: interpreting the disturbing and the difficult. David Herman: Toward a zoonarratology: storytelling and species difference in animal comics
Markku Lehtimäki: Watching a tree grow: Terrence Malick's The new world and the nature of cinema
Maria Mäkelä: Navigating "making sense" interpreting (the reader behind La jalousie)
Mari Hatavara: History impossible: narrating and motivating the past
Jan Alber: Unnatural temporalities: interfaces between postmodernism, science fiction, and the fantastic
Sanna Katariina Bruun: The imperfect is our paradise: intertextuality and fragmentary narration in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace
Jakob Lothe: Fragile narrative situations: Conrad compared to Sebald
Shadow of a tail: problems of authorship. Leona Toker: Name change and author avatars in Varlam Shalamov and Primo Levi
Marina Grishakova: Stranger than fiction, or, Jerome David Salinger, author of Lolita: real, implied and fictive authorship
Hannu Tommola: Translators, scoundrels and gentlemen of honor: problems of Nabokov's loyalty
Brian McHale: Affordances of form in stanzaic narrative poetry
Gennady Barabtarlo: A shadow on the marble.