Contents
Preface An Origin Story and a Description of Our Debate (by Matthew Clark and James Phelan)
Introduction (Matthew Clark)
Chapter 1 The Synthetic Aspect (Matthew Clark)
Chapter 2 The Mimetic Aspect (Matthew Clark)
Chapter 3 The Thematic Aspect (Matthew Clark)
Chapter 4 Narrative as Rhetoric and the MTS Model (James Phelan)
Chapter 5 The Mimetic, the Synthetic, and the Criterion of Correspondence; Or Audiences, the Mimetic Illusion, and Ghosts (James Phelan)
Chapter 6 The Thematic and the Relation between Comprehensiveness and Correspondence (James Phelan)
Chapter 7 MTS, Fictionality, and Nonfiction: Tobias Wolff’s “Old China” (James Phelan)
Chapter 8 “Yes, But . . .” (Matthew Clark)
Bibliography
Index