Unlikely stories

By Richardson Brian

Unlikely Stories is the first book-length study of the full range of causal issues in narrative, and explores the neglected question of just what brings about events in a fictional text. This book...

Discourses

By Leslie Walker, Niccolo Machiavelli, Bernard Crick, Richardson Brian

Marketing for Architects and Engineers

By Richardson Brian

Interactions Between Orality and Writing in Early Modern Italian Culture

By Luca Degl Innocenti, Chiara Sbordoni, Richardson Brian

Print Culture in Renaissance Italy

By Richardson Brian

Manuscript culture in Renaissance Italy

By Richardson Brian

"Even after the arrival of printing in the fifteenth century, texts continued to be circulated within Italian society by means of manuscript. Scribal culture offered rapidity, flexibility and a sen...

Poetics of Unnatural Narrative

By Henrik Skov Nielsen, Jan Alber, Richardson Brian

A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty First Century

By Richardson Brian

Story, in the largest sense of the term, is arguably the single most important aspect of narrative. But with the proliferation of antimimetic writing, traditional narrative theory has been inadequa...

A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-First Century

By Richardson Brian

Story, in the largest sense of the term, is arguably the single most important aspect of narrative. But with the proliferation of antimimetic writing, traditional narrative theory has been inadequa...

Poetics of Unnatural Narrative

By Henrik Skov Nielsen, Jan Alber, Richardson Brian

This text offers a collection of foundational essays introducing the reader to the full scope of unnatural narrative theory: its meaning, its goals, its extent, its paradoxes. This book brings toge...