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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
"It Is Enough": St. Ogg and Caring Through the Gap	9
Toward a Narratology of Western Narrative Theatre Dance	7
Response to Elizabeth Evans	6
The Construction of Transmedial Characters by Fans and Industry	4
Julian Barnes and the Subversion of the Sense of an Ending	4
A Moving Carriage of Similes: Robert Musil and The Perfecting of a Love	3
Companion Characters and Portal's Companion Cube: A Response to Ida Broni Christensen	3
Response: Composite Avatars and the Epistemology of the Playable Figure	2
Introduction: Contextualizing Trans Narratologies	2
Drowned Places: Sea-Level Rise and Narrative Crisis in Elizabeth Rush's Rising	2
In Search of Characters Without Signifiers	2
Dramatic Poetry as Rhetorical Form: The Case of Sarah Piatt’s “Mock Diamonds”	2
Material Practices and Semiotic Objects: A Response to Shane Denson	2
Why Computer AI Will Never Do What We Imagine It Can	2
Bearing Witnessing with What We Cannot Speak: The Use of the Abject and Figurative Language in Pat Barker’s Regeneration and Union Street	2
Unsettling Fire: Recognizing Narrative Compassion	1
Feeling Fictional: Metalepsis, Caprice, and the Uncanny in E. T. A. Hoffmann's "The Sandman"	1
Knowing What’s Unnatural for Somebody: A Reply to Jan Alber and Brian Richardson	1
“Nothing was solved, only accelerated”: Contemporary Berlin Novels as Gentrifictions	1
Disrupted Lines: The Illegitimately Born Narrator in Dostoevsky and Hurston	1
Characters as Transtextual and Transmedial: A Reply to Mattia Thibault	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
Voice Assistants and the Concept of Character: Response to Joleen Blom	1
Toni Morrison's Authorial Audience and the Properties of Black-Centered Imaginative History	1
Thinking through Queer Narrative Forms with Ben Marcus and Renee Gladman	0

The Ethics of Animal Excess: Violence and Bataillean Vigilance in Ian McEwan's Black Dogs	0
"Right-hand Pixels": Controlling Companions and Employing Haptic Storytelling Techniques in Single-Player Quest-Based Videogames	0
Reading Unnaturally: A Response to Ellen Peel	0
“How to Become a Rock”: Non-Human Metaphors as Trans Paranarratives	0
Characters Without Signifiers	0
Editors' Column: Introduction to "Character and Character Studies"	0
The Diachronic Analysis of the Anglophone Invasion Narrative and Its Counter-Narrative Forms in Fiction and Film	0
Transmedia Characters	0
Introduction	0
From Dangerfield to Dickens: A Short History of Tense Alternation in the British Novel	0
Character Networks, the Zero Function, and the Lost Character: Solving Three Anomalies in Plot Genotype Theory	0
Narrative Capacity	0
Restorying the Sport Performance Masterplot: Jaclyn Gilbert’s Late Air	0
Thematic Abstraction at Work in the World: A Case Study from China with Global Implications	0
Transmedia and the Future of Character Studies: A Response to Nieves Rosendo	0
Writing in Absentia: Woolf and the Language of Things	0
Five Features in the Search of a Character Theory	0
Character Change in Mainstream Movies: Structures of Moral Development	0
“To telle yow [. . .] whiche they weren, and of what degree”: Direct Characterization across the Centuries	0
Landscape Rhetoricity: Narrative, Ecology, and Topographic Form	0
Bibliographic Metaparatexts and the Author Function of Librarians	0
Introduction: "House Rules"—Reading with Authorial Instructions	0
Transmigrations: Race, Resistance, and Imperial Narrative Strategy in Richard Marsh’s The Beetle	0
Charles Chesnutt, Rhetorical Passing, and the Flesh-and-Blood Author: A Case for Considering Authorial Intention	0
Discourse-Pragmatic Conservatism in Early Modern English Religious Prose: A Residue of Old English Narrative Style?	0
Voice Assistants as Characters—or Not	0
Who is Uncle Sam? 19th Century Pre-Narrative Figures and the Emergence of Transmedia Character Culture	0
Tellability and/as Audibility: How "Every Sound Is Possible" in Matthew Herbert's The Music	0
Reply to Roberta Pearson	0
Chrononarratology: Modelling Historical Change for Narratology	0
Rhetorical Narratology's Sweet Spot: A Reply to John Frow	0
The Prose of the World: Everyday Life, Specialization and Conrad’s Descriptive Style	0
Trans-forming Narratology	0
What the Rise of AI Means for Narrative Studies: A Response to “Why Computers Will Never Read (or Write) Literature” by Angus Fletcher	0
Towards Post-Phenomenology and Posthumanism	0
Poeta Necans : The Metalepsis of Killing a Character in Diachronic Perspective	0
Play Don't Show—Video Game Companions	0
Instructing the Reader of Metafiction: Nabokov & Gombrowicz	0
Audiences, Industry, and Agency in Transmedial Character Transformation: Response to Susana Tosca	0
Analyzing Narrative Empathy in Readers' Responses to Literature: A Taxonomy of Linguistic Evidence of Empathetic Responses	0
“Your History is Being Worked Up”: Microfiction in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution	0
The Book of Ashes: Authorial Instructions, Incorporations, and House Rules in Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth	0
Rethinking Characters with Semiotics	0
Mad about the “Boys”? Desire, Revulsion, and (Mis)Recognition in Varro’s Eumenides	0
Transmedia Characters/Transmedia Figures: Drawing Distinctions and Staging Re-Entries	0
Character, Fiction, Formalism: A Response to James Phelan, "Character as Rhetorical Resource: Mimetic, Thematic, and Synthetic in Fiction and Non-Fiction"	0
The Narrative Features of Involuntary Time Loops	0
Saving the Self from Stories: Resistance to Narrative in Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table	0
The Neuroscience of Literary Time Travel: How Literary Works Cross Historical Distance	0
Storyminds and Readingminds: Cognitive Plots in David Small’s Stitches and Virginia Woolf ’s “In the Orchard”	0

Virtual Assistants as Characters—Or Not	0
Narrative Beginnings: Relations between First Full-Fledged Scenes and the Beginning of the Main Action	0
Towards a Semiotic Theory of Transmedia Characters	0
Historicizing and Theorizing Pre-Narrative Figures—Who is Uncle Sam?	0
The Implicated Reader: Second-Person Address in Novels of US Imperialism	0
The Many Faces of Toshizō Hijikata	0
Proximities and Cross-Species Empathies in Laura Jean McKay's The Animals in That Country	0
The Mutable Holmes	0
Genres of English Scientific Narrative from 1375 to 1800: Professional and Lay Medical Discourses	0
Characters with Signifiers: A Framework Direction	0
Affect and the Analysis of Transmedial Characters	0
Transforming Paratext: A Transgender Touch across Time in Confessions of the Fox	0
Reading Characters Rhetorically	0
The Possibility of Convergence: A Study of Narrative Structure in Don DeLillo's Fiction	0
Contrasting Character Identities: A Response to Kai Mikkonen	0
The Politics of Pre-Narrative Seriality	0
The Historical Novel: Past, Reality and Future from Interpretation to Sociological Analysis	0
Eventuality in Fiction: Contingency, Complexity and Narrative	0
Portal and the Minimalistic Companion: A Response to Kristine Jørgensen	0
Silence as Dialogic Refusal: Deliberate Failures of Verbal Responding in English Fiction between 1660 and 1850	0
On the Affective Reception of Characters: A Response to Nicolle Lamerichs	0
Chapter Boundaries and Scene Shifts in Early Modern Prose Romances	0
Enactive, Interactive, Social—New Contexts for Reading Second-Person Narration	0
Character as Rhetorical Resource: Mimetic, Thematic, and Synthetic in Fiction and Non-Fiction	0
Theorizing the Player-Playable Figure Relationship	0
Centaurs and Horsemen: Composite Avatars and the Epistemology of the Playable Figure	0
Protagonist to Empathy Machine: Exploring the Interpretive Communities and Affective Reception of Characters	0
Explorations of the Unconscious in Modernist Women’s Works	0
Narrative Creativity Training: A Case Study from the US Army	0
The Contribution of Semiotics to a Theory of Transmedia Characters	0
Synchronic Reading	0
Queering a Trans Life Story: The Unnatural Potential of Weak Narrativity in succubus in my pocket	0