In the last two decades there have been some clear trajectories of narrative study.The cognitive and social sciences direction of narrative investigation,coupled with more traditional,literary-orientated theories of narrative,augmented by a nod to non-literary media,plus a dash of the more fashionable aspects of discourse analysis,has constituted“postclassical”narratology.The term was inaugurated by Herman(1997)and he notes that narrative theory has“undergone not a funeral or burial but rather a sustained,sometimes startling metamorphosis”(1999:1;see In the last two decades there have been some clear trajectories of narrative study.The cognitive and social sciences direction of narrative investigation, coupled with more traditional, literary-orientated theories of narrative, augmented by a nod to non-literary media, plus a dash of the more fashionable aspects of discourse analysis, has composed “postclassical ” narratology. The term was inaugurated by Herman (1997) and he notes that narrative theory has “undergone not a funeral or burial but rather a sustained, sometimes startling metamorphosis ”(1999: 1; see