Rhetoric and Literature

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Narratology

Those rhetoricians who are also interested in narrative or fictional work should look into narratology, which studies the narrative agents at work in texts and the effects they have on an audience. As its name suggests, narratology focuses exclusively on narrative texts. Narratologist Mieke Bal defines a narrative as any "text in which a narrative agent tells a story." Bal's book, titled Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, can be found here. [1]