What to Read After Narrative discourse
Readers who loved Narrative discourse by Gérard Genette keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Narrative discourse is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Narrative discourse
Story and discourse
Narratology
Proust and signs
Morphology of the folktale
Theory of prose
Sacred Wood
Writing degree zero, and Elements of semiology.
The sense of an ending
Postmodernist Fiction
The pleasure of the text
A theory of adaptation
Desire and domestic fiction
The rhetoric of fiction
Anatomy of criticism
A theory of adapation
Reading for the plot
The world, the text, and the critic
Mimesis
The dialogic imagination
Narrative Fiction
S/Z
The castle of crossed destinies
Literary theory
Endgame and Act Without Words