Table of Contents

Introduction
     Genre
     The Faiths of English Literature
The Effaced Narrator of Michael Crummey's "Bread"
     First Person Narrator
     The Second Person Narrator
     The Third Person Narrator
     The First Person Retrospective Narrator
     Cultural Codes
Metafiction and Authorial Intrusion in George Bowering's "A Short Story"
     Metafiction
Metafiction in Dale Bailey's "The End of the World as We Know It"
     Narrative Desire
The Use of Character in Kim Stanley Robinson's "A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations"
The Use of Character in Terry Bisson's "England Underway"
The Use of Character in Thomas King's "Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre"
     Listing in the Literary Tradition
     Mirrored Structure
     Framing Strategy
     Textual Time Devoted to a Subject
Managing Narrative Voice and the Unreliable Narrator in Richard Bissell's "Mike Polk"
     Stream of Consciousness
A Child as a First Person Narrator in Richard Bissell's "Mohamed Ali"
     Child First Person Narrators
     Subject Position
The First Person Child Narrator in Thomas King's "Borders"
Narration as Ghost Story in Fritz Leiber's "A Pail of Air"
The Mad First Person Narrator of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"
The Limited Omniscient Narrator of Jack Hodgins' "By the River"
     The Omniscient Narrator
     The Limited Omniscient
The Problematic Limited Omniscient Narrator of George R. R. Martin's "Dark, Dark were the Tunnels"
The Intrusive Narrator of Thomas King's "How Corporal Colin Sterling Saved Blossom, Alberta, and Most of the Rest of the World as Well"
Manipulating Reader Desire, Cultural Codes and the Complacent First Person Narrator in Carol Emshwiller's "Killers"
The Objective Omniscient Narrator of H. G. Wells' "The Star"
     Everyperson Structure
J. G. Sime's "Munitions!" and the Presentation of History
History as Symbolic Representation in Thomas King's "Totem"
Reconciliation in Thomas King's "A Seat in the Garden"
Frustrating Reader Desire by Structure in Octavia Butler's "Speech Sounds"
Thought Experiments and Philosophical Proclamations in Morgan Wyman's "The Second Life"
Disorganized Humanity in H. G. Wells' "Empire of the Ants"
Magic Realism Bruno Schultz's "The Cinnamon Shops"
Magic Realism and Superstition in Gabriel García Márquez's "The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
Magical Intrusion into Perceived Reality in Jorge Luis Borges' "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"
Recognizable Stories in New Clothes: Cory Doctorow's "To Market, To Market: The Rebranding of Billy Bailey"
An Indictment of Colonization: Thomas King's "One Good Story that One"
     Positioning the Story in the Indigenous Tradition
     The Importance of the Elder as Teacher
     The Written and the Oral Traditions
     Implicit Comparison between Cultures: Naming
     Declared Bias in the First Person Narrator: A Red Herring
     The Responsibility of the Elder
     Stories of Origin
     The Christian Story of Origin: The Garden of Eden
     Narrative Levels
Appendix I: Stories under Study
     Richard Bissell's "Mike Polk"
     Richard Bissell's "Mohamed Ali"
     H. G. Wells' "The Star"
     Morgan Wyman's "The Second Life"
     H. G. Wells' The Empire of the Ants
Glossary
Works Cited
Texts Used in This Study

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