Publications and Work in Progress:
Books:
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"Unnatural Narrative: Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama." Frontiers of
Narrative. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming.
Narrating the Prison: Role and Representation in Charles Dickens' Novels,
Twentieth-Century Fiction, and Film. Literature, Film, Theory. Youngstown, NY:
Cambria Press, 2007.
Edited Collections:
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Ed. with Per Krogh Hansen. Beyond Classical Narration: Unnatural and Transmedial
Narrative and Narratology. Narratologia. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2014.
Ed. with Henrik Skov Nielsen and Brian Richardson. A Poetics of Unnatural
Narrative. Theory and Interpretation of Narrative. Columbus: The Ohio State
University Press, 2013.
Ed. with Stefan Iversen, Louise Brix Jacobsen, Rikke Andersen Kraglund, Henrik
Skov Nielsen, and Camilla Møhring Reestorff. Why Study Literature? Aarhus: Aarhus
University Press, 2011.
Ed. with Rüdiger Heinze. Unnatural Narratives, Unnatural Narratology. Linguae &
Litterae. Publications of the School of Language and Literature Freiburg Institute for
Advanced Studies 9. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2011.
Ed. with Monika Fludernik. Postclassical Narratology: Approaches and Analyses.
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press,
2010.
Ed. with Frank Lauterbach. Stones of Law – Bricks of Shame: Narrating
Imprisonment in the Victorian Age. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2009.
Ed. with Monika Fludernik. Moderne – Postmoderne. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher
Verlag Trier, 2003.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
Postmodernism and Post-Postmodernism:
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"Contemporary Forms of Metafiction: From Postmodernism to Post-Postmodernism."
Metafiction Revisited. Ed. Lissi Krikelis. Cambridge Scholars, work in progress.
"Postmodernist Impossibilities, the Creation of New Cognitive Frames, and Attempts
at Interpretation." Beyond Classical Narration: Unnatural and Transmedial Narrative
and Narratology. Ed. Jan Alber and Per Krogh Hansen. Narratologia. Berlin and New
York: De Gruyter, 2014. 261-80.
"Unnatural Narrative Theory: The Systematic Study of Anti-Mimeticism." Literature
Compass 10.5 (2013): 449–60.
"Unnatural Narratology and the Retrogressive Temporality in Martin Amis's Time's
Arrow." New Approaches to Narrative: Cognition, Culture, History. Ed. Vera
Nünning. Trier: WVT, 2013. 43-56.
"The 'Moreness' or 'Lessness' of 'Natural' Narratology: Samuel Beckett's "Lessness"
Reconsidered." Style 36.1 (2002): 54-75. Reprinted in Short Story Criticism 74
(2004): 113-24.
Law and Literature:
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"Legitimating the Prison – Reproducing Cultural Hegemonies: The Case of American
Prison Movies." Euresis (2010): 171-78.
With Martin Brandenstein. "'Hart aber gerecht'? Ethik und Strafen im öffentlichen
Diskurs: Das Gefängnis als missbrauchtes Abschreckungsmittel am Beispiel der
Kampagne gegen Raubkopierer." Bausteine zu einer Ethik des Strafens. Ed. HansHelmuth Gander, Monika Fludernik, and Hans-Jörg Albrecht. Würzburg: Ergon,
2008. 281-301.
"Bodies Behind Bars: The Disciplining of the Prisoner's Body in British and
American Prison Movies." In the Grip of the Law: Prisons, Trials and the Space
Between. Ed. Monika Fludernik and Greta Olson. Frankfurt: Lang, 2004. 241-69.
"Das Gefängnis im Hollywoodfilm: Strafvollzug zwischen Fiktion und Realität."
Zeitschrift für Strafvollzug und Straffälligenhilfe 52.1 (2003): 31-40.
Dickens and Victorian Literature:
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"Darkness, Light, and Various Shades of Gray: The Prison and the Outside World in
Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities." Dickens Studies Annual 40 (2009): 95-112.
"The Ideological Underpinnings of Prisons and their Inmates from Charles Dickens's
Novels to Twentieth-Century Film." Images of Crime III: Representations of Crime
and the Criminal. Ed. Telemach Serassis, Harald Kania, and Hans-Jörg Albrecht.
Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2009. 133-48.
With Frank Lauterbach. "Introduction." Stones of Law, Bricks of Shame: Narrating
Imprisonment in the Victorian Age. Ed. Jan Alber and Frank Lauterbach. Toronto,
ON: University of Toronto Press, 2009. 3-24.
Postcolonial Topics:
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"The Representation of Aborigines in Contemporary Australian Prose: Ways Towards
Reconciliation?," European Journal of English Studies 20, work in progress.
With Natalie Churn. "Creative Indigenous Self-Representation in Australian Popular
Culture as a Vital Communication Channel for Refiguring Public Opinion." Anglistica
(special issue, ed. Bill Ashcroft and Katherine E. Russo), forthcoming.
"The Specific Orientalism of Lord Byron's Poetry." Arbeiten aus Anglistik und
Amerikanistik 38.2 (2013): 107-27.
The History of Literature (from the Middle Ages to Postmodernism):
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"Interview about Speculative Fiction." Fafnir: The Nordic Journal of Science Fiction
and Fantasy Research, forthcoming.
"Unnatural Spaces and Narrative Worlds." A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative. Ed. Jan
Alber, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Brian Richardson. Columbus: The Ohio State
University Press, 2013. 45-66.
"Pre-Postmodernist Manifestations of the Unnatural: Instances of Expanded
Consciousness in 'Omniscient' Narration and Reflector-Mode Narratives." Zeitschrift
für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 61.2 (2013): 137-53.
"Unnatural Temporalities: Interfaces between Postmodernism, Science Fiction, and
the Fantastic." Narrative Interrupted: The Plotless, the Disturbing and the Trivial in
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Literature. Festschrift for Pekka Tammi. Ed. Markku Lehtimäki, Laura Kartunen, and
Maria Mäkelä. New York et al.: De Gruyter, 2012. 174-91.
"The Diachronic Development of Unnaturalness: A New View on Genre." Unnatural
Narratives, Unnatural Narratology. Ed. Jan Alber and Rüdiger Heinze. Berlin and
New York: De Gruyter, 2011. 41-67.
Alber, Jan, Stefan Iversen, Louise Brix Jacobsen, Rikke Andersen Kraglund, Henrik
Skov Nielsen und Camilla Møhring Reestorff. "Introduction." Why Study Literature?
Hgg. Jan Alber, Stefan Iversen, Louise Brix Jacobsen, Rikke Andersen Kraglund,
Henrik Skov Nielsen und Camilla Møhring Reestorff. Aarhus: Aarhus University
Press, 2011. 7-22.
"The Ethical Implications of Unnatural Scenarios." Why Study Literature? Ed. Jan
Alber, Stefan Iversen, Louise Brix Jacobsen, Rikke Andersen Kraglund, Henrik Skov
Nielsen, and Camilla Møhring Reestorff. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2011. 21133.
New Media (Film and Hypertext Fiction):
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"The Representation of Character Interiority in Film," forthcoming.
With Alice Bell. "Ontological Metalepsis and Unnatural Narratology." Journal of
Narrative Theory 42.2 (2012): 166-92.
"Cinematic Carcerality: Prison Metaphors in Film." The Journal of Popular Culture
44.2 (2011): 217-32.
"Hypothetical Intentionalism: Cinematic Narration Reconsidered." Postclassical
Narratology: Approaches and Analyses. Ed. Jan Alber and Monika Fludernik.
Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2010. 163-85.
Narrative Theory
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"Formerzählung/erzählte Form." Literarische Form. Ed. Matthias Erdbeer, Florian
Kläger, and Klaus Stierstorfer. Berlin et al.: De Gruyter, work in progress.
"Unnatürliche erzählte Welten." Welten Erzählen. Ed. Christoph Bartsch and Frauke
Bode. Berlin et al.: De Gruyter, forthcoming.
"Reading Unnatural Narratives." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies
24.2 (2013): 135-50 (special issue, hg. Renate Brosch).
With Stefan Iversen, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Brian Richardson. "What Really is
Unnatural Narratology?" Storyworlds 5 (2013): 101-18.
"Unnatural Narratology: Developments and Perspectives." Germanisch-Romanische
Monatsschrift 63.1 (2013): 69-84 (special issue, ed. Ansgar Nünning).
With Stefan Iversen, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Brian Richardson. "Introduction." A
Poetics of Unnatural Narrative. Ed. Jan Alber, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Brian
Richardson. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2013. 1-15.
"Jan Alber" (Interview). Narrative Theories and Poetics: Five Questions. Ed. Peer F.
Bungaard, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Frederik Stjernfelt. Copenhagen: Automatic
Press/VIP, 2012. 11-20.
With Stefan Iversen, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Brian Richardson. "What is Unnatural
about Unnatural Narratology? A Response to Monika Fludernik." Narrative 20.3
(2012): 371-82.
With Rüdiger Heinze. "Introduction." Unnatural Narratives, Unnatural Narratology.
Ed. Jan Alber and Rüdiger Heinze. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2011. 1-19.
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With Monika Fludernik. "Introduction." Postclassical Narratology: Approaches and
Analyses. Ed. Jan Alber and Monika Fludernik. Columbus: The Ohio State University
Press, 2010. 1-31.
With Stefan Iversen, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Brian Richardson. "Unnatural
Narratives, Unnatural Narratology: Beyond Mimetic Models." Narrative 18.2 (2010):
113-36.
"Ethical Judgments Presuppose Minds: A Response to Henrik Skov Nielsen's Paper
'New Ethics, New Formalism.'" Amsterdam International Electronic Journal of
Cultural Narratology 5 (2009). <cf.hum.uva.nl/narratology/>
"Impossible Storyworlds – and What to Do with Them." Storyworlds 1 (2009): 79-96.
"Bibliography of 'German' Narratology." Style 38.2 (2004): 253-72.