Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why We Have Stories; PART ONE; 1 Perceptual Causality and Narrative Causality; 2 Narrativity and Enaction: The Social Nature of Literary Narrative Understanding; 3 Narrative and Metaphor: On Two Alternative Organizations of Human Experience; PART TWO; 4 Narrativity and Enaction in Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez; 5 Narrative and Allegory in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go; 6 Narrative and Metaphor in the Tales of Henry James; Afterword; References; Index