Narratologists, however, rarely dis

Narratologists, however, rarely distinguish the texts to which such classifying methods are appropriate from those to which they are inappropriate. The nature of narratology is to seek out fundamental categories that can be applied to all literatures. While narratologists are considerably less willing than they once were to reduce narrative to some fundamental and abstract “deep structure” that causes all individual textual details to appear as inessential articulation, they retain the goal of defining generally applicable terms for the study of narrative texts. Narrative bodies particularly reveal, however, the bias brought to this field by narratology’s traditional emphasis on the European novel.