Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-203) and index.

Introduction ; differential narratology -- Intensive narration : Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters -- Narrating sensation : Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid -- Sensational realism : Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist -- Real folds : Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves -- Conclusion : from the becoming of narrative to the narrativity of becoming.

What is narrative? Ridvan Askin brings together aesthetics, contemporary North American fiction, Gilles Deleuze, narrative theory and the recent speculative turn to answer this question. Through this process, he develops a transcendental empiricist concept of narrative. Askin argues against the established consensus of narrative theory for an understanding of narrative as fundamentally nonhuman, unconscious and expressive.

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