James Phelan is Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is the editor of the journal "Narrative" and the author of several books in narrative theory, the most recent of which are "Living to Tell About It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration" (2005) and "Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative" (2007).
Peter J. Rabinowitz is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College. His previous publications include "Before Reading" (1987) and "Authorizing Readers" (coauthored with Micha...