Problems with Standard Narrative Theories - Guest lecture by Brian Richardson

Professor Brian Richardson (University of Maryland) will be visiting the Doctoral Programme in Literary Studies at the School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies at the University of Tampere on April 23-25, 2013. Professor Richardson is one of the key players in the field of contemporary narratology, an expert on modern and postmodern narrative and drama, and the most influential proponent of "unnatural narratology". Professor Richardson will address pertinent theoretical issues in his visiting lecture.

All welcome!

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Brian Richardson is a Professor in the English Department of the University of Maryland, where he teaches modern literature and narrative theory.  He is the author of Unlikely Stories: Causality and the Nature of Modern Narrative (1997), Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (2006, winner of the Perkins Prize), and Unnatural Narratives: Theory, History, Paradoxes (forthcoming in 2013). He is the co-author (with David Herman, James Phelan, Peter Rabinowitz, and Robyn Warhol) of  Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates (2012). Richardson has edited two anthologies, Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frames (2002) and Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices (2008), and co-edited (with Jan Alber and Henrik Skov Nielsen) A Poetics of Unnatural Narratives (2013). He guest edited a special issue of *Style* on Concepts of Narrative (34.2, 2000) and another on the implied author (45.1, 2011). He is currently completing a book on Unnatural Narratives: Theory, History, Paradoxes.