My JNT essay titled ‘Opening a Window or Pulling Back the Curtain’ is based on a section of my PhD thesis which I completed at the University of Nottingham in 2023. My doctoral research explored a variety of interactive postmodern…
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JNT 54.3 Featured Author: Margaret Mackey
As a young reader, I tore through every book about Nancy Drew or Judy Bolton or Beverly Gray that I could lay my hands on. My access to these books was spotty since the library refused to carry them. I…
JNT 54.3 Featured Author: Diletta Cenni
JNT 54.3 Featured Author: Hui Haifeng
When I first began working on this special issue of Journal of Narrative Theory, I was struck by both the opportunities and challenges of bringing these two disciplines into dialogue. Children’s literature, often seen as deceptively simple, contains a wealth…
JNT 53.2 Featured Author: Francesca Arnavas
Gustaf Tenggren, illustration for “Sleeping Beauty”, watercolour and pencil on paper, 1929. Tell us a bit about the essay you wrote for JNT. My article proposes to employ hybridity as a tool to describe the genericcrisscrossing characterising literary texts I…
JNT 53.2 Featured Author: Liwen Zhang
Flirting with Filler: Significance is Overrated “Flirting with Filler” was originally a discarded chapter draft from one of my previous book projects. This may well be a fitting origin for an article that talks about filler: behind every discarded draft…
JNT 53.1 Featured Author: Daniel Newman
Tell us a bit about the essay you wrote for JNT. My essay in JNT introduces the special issue I guest edited on “Narratologies of Science.” I have always been interested in how scientists develop all kinds of strange models,…
JNT 52.3 Featured Author: Yanli He
The Road to Socialist World Literature I am very grateful to many friends and scholars who have helped me shape the idea of Socialist World Literature. The central concern of Socialist World Literature is remapping the connection between Socialist Realism…
JNT 52.2 Featured Authors: Florian Zitzelsberger and Melanie Kreitler
“Making (Narrative) Sense: Introspection and Retrospection in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” When I started watching Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, I did not know what I was in for. People recommended the show to me because of my dissertation project, in which I…
JNT 52.1 Featured Author: Dan Shen
When I first read Kate Chopin’s “A Pair of Silk Stockings” all the way back at the turn of the century, I only took it to be a feminist text. Although I found some textual elements that didn’t fit in…
