This handbook is the result of an ambitious, interdisciplinary, and pioneering project, in that it not only opens new horizons for the study of the wide field of factual narratives across disciplines and various media, but it also charts important new trajectories for narrative theory at large. Although narratology has branched out in many interesting and new ways during the past two decades or so, it has traditionally been mainly concerned with literary or narrative fiction rather than with manifestations of narrative in nonfictional domains such as historiography, law, medicine, politics, or sociology. While various domains, forms, and functions of factual or reality-focused narratives have recently received some attention, most notably in a volume entitled Wirklichkeitserzählungen (edited by the German narrative theorists Christian Klein and Matías Martinez in 2009), the wide range of uses of narratives to convey facts and true information have still not been studied as comprehensively and...

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