OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Narrative is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
"It Is Enough": St. Ogg and Caring Through the Gap	10
Editor's Column: Thirty-Three Years with Other People's Arguments	6
Toward a Narratology of Western Narrative Theatre Dance	4
Julian Barnes and the Subversion of the Sense of an Ending	3
A Moving Carriage of Similes: Robert Musil and The Perfecting of a Love	3
The Plot Shop: Rereading in the Literary Marketplace	2
Introduction: Applied Narratology	2
Metalepsis and Historical Temporalities: A Contribution to Diachronic Narratology	2
Narratives Targeting Political Enemies: The Case of Post-Brexit Tory Leaders in the United Kingdom (2016–2022)	2
Bearing Witnessing with What We Cannot Speak: The Use of the Abject and Figurative Language in Pat Barker’s Regeneration and Union Street	1
Introduction: Contextualizing Trans Narratologies	1
Knowing What’s Unnatural for Somebody: A Reply to Jan Alber and Brian Richardson	1
Drowned Places: Sea-Level Rise and Narrative Crisis in Elizabeth Rush's Rising	1
Provocations of Tree Ring Narratives: Dendronarratology, Transmaterial Narratology, and the Ecology of Narratives	1
Unsettling Fire: Recognizing Narrative Compassion	1
Toni Morrison's Authorial Audience and the Properties of Black-Centered Imaginative History	1
Dramatic Poetry as Rhetorical Form: The Case of Sarah Piatt’s “Mock Diamonds”	1
Multimodality, Transmediality, and Ethics in Post-Postmodernist Fictions of the Digital	1
“To Become a Warrior and a Son to My Father”: Aleksandr Aleksandrov’s (Nadezhda Durova) Notes of a Cavalry Maiden (1836) as Transgender Autobiography	1
Tellability and/as Audibility: How "Every Sound Is Possible" in Matthew Herbert's The Music	0
Character Networks, the Zero Function, and the Lost Character: Solving Three Anomalies in Plot Genotype Theory	0
Instructing the Reader of Metafiction: Nabokov & Gombrowicz	0
Towards a Secular Narratology	0
“Your History is Being Worked Up”: Microfiction in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution	0
Proximities and Cross-Species Empathies in Laura Jean McKay's The Animals in That Country	0

Introduction	0
Disrupted Lines: The Illegitimately Born Narrator in Dostoevsky and Hurston	0
Analyzing Narrative Empathy in Readers' Responses to Literature: A Taxonomy of Linguistic Evidence of Empathetic Responses	0
Confirmed by Cli-Fi: A Qualitative Analysis on How Readers Perceive the Impact of Reading Climate Fiction	0
Mad about the “Boys”? Desire, Revulsion, and (Mis)Recognition in Varro’s Eumenides	0
Reading Unnaturally: A Response to Ellen Peel	0
Chapter Boundaries and Scene Shifts in Early Modern Prose Romances	0
Explorations of the Unconscious in Modernist Women’s Works	0
The Book of Ashes: Authorial Instructions, Incorporations, and House Rules in Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth	0
On the Free Indirect Speech of Very Minor Characters in Mrs. Dalloway	0
Character Change in Mainstream Movies: Structures of Moral Development	0
Discourse-Pragmatic Conservatism in Early Modern English Religious Prose: A Residue of Old English Narrative Style?	0
Poeta Necans : The Metalepsis of Killing a Character in Diachronic Perspective	0
Storyminds and Readingminds: Cognitive Plots in David Small’s Stitches and Virginia Woolf ’s “In the Orchard”	0
“To telle yow [. . .] whiche they weren, and of what degree”: Direct Characterization across the Centuries	0
Thematic Abstraction at Work in the World: A Case Study from China with Global Implications	0
Narrative Capacity	0
“How to Become a Rock”: Non-Human Metaphors as Trans Paranarratives	0
Narrative Beginnings: Relations between First Full-Fledged Scenes and the Beginning of the Main Action	0
Is AI a Social Storyteller? Evaluating Algorithmic Narratives of Noncitizenship	0
The Diachronic Analysis of the Anglophone Invasion Narrative and Its Counter-Narrative Forms in Fiction and Film	0
Feeling Fictional: Metalepsis, Caprice, and the Uncanny in E. T. A. Hoffmann's "The Sandman"	0
Bibliographic Metaparatexts and the Author Function of Librarians	0
Re-Telling the “Master Narrative” of Domestic Abuse: A New Nexus Between Narrative Criminology and Applied Narratology	0
Beyond Self-Exploration: Elaborating a Rhetorical Approach to Autofiction through Meena Kandasamy's When I Hit You	0
The Narrative Features of Involuntary Time Loops	0
The Prose of the World: Everyday Life, Specialization and Conrad’s Descriptive Style	0
Silence as Dialogic Refusal: Deliberate Failures of Verbal Responding in English Fiction between 1660 and 1850	0
Queering a Trans Life Story: The Unnatural Potential of Weak Narrativity in succubus in my pocket	0
The Historical Novel: Past, Reality and Future from Interpretation to Sociological Analysis	0
Back to the Future? Towards an Applied Futures Narratology	0
"Check Out Narratology Maybe": Fictional Imaginaries of AI Narration	0
Narrative Creativity Training: A Case Study from the US Army	0
Transmigrations: Race, Resistance, and Imperial Narrative Strategy in Richard Marsh’s The Beetle	0
Eventuality in Fiction: Contingency, Complexity and Narrative	0
Transforming Paratext: A Transgender Touch across Time in Confessions of the Fox	0
Trans-forming Narratology	0
Landscape Rhetoricity: Narrative, Ecology, and Topographic Form	0
Genres of English Scientific Narrative from 1375 to 1800: Professional and Lay Medical Discourses	0
The Possibility of Convergence: A Study of Narrative Structure in Don DeLillo's Fiction	0
Playing with Otium ? On the Aesthetics of Walking Simulators	0
“Nothing was solved, only accelerated”: Contemporary Berlin Novels as Gentrifictions	0
The Neuroscience of Literary Time Travel: How Literary Works Cross Historical Distance	0
What Craft Advice, Rhetorical Narratology, and Psychology of Aesthetics Can Do for Each Other	0
Applied Narratology in the Storytelling Boom: Norms, Ideals and Practices Among Narrative Professionals	0
From Dangerfield to Dickens: A Short History of Tense Alternation in the British Novel	0
Writing in Absentia: Woolf and the Language of Things	0
The Ethics of Animal Excess: Violence and Bataillean Vigilance in Ian McEwan's Black Dogs	0
Restorying the Sport Performance Masterplot: Jaclyn Gilbert’s Late Air	0
Pseudotranslation, Disnarration, and All That Could Have Been (but wasn't)	0

The Implicated Reader: Second-Person Address in Novels of US Imperialism	0
Narrative Form and Mentality in Contemporary Fiction	0
Introduction: "House Rules"—Reading with Authorial Instructions	0
Thinking through Queer Narrative Forms with Ben Marcus and Renee Gladman	0