Narratology attempts to determine the rules or codes of composition of a narrative and to formulate the grammar of narrative, that is, the structures and formulas that recur across stories with very different content. Since its inception some thirty years ago, narratology has adopted a largely formalist and structuralist focus and thus has tended to pass over contextual factors that affect a reader s experience of narratives.In Rhetorical Narratology, Michael Kearns redresses this one-sidedness by combining traditional narratology s tools for analyzing texts with rhetoric s tools for...