The following is a list of selected publications.

Books:

Fable's End: Completeness and Closure in RhetoricalFiction. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1974.

Narrative / Theory. White Plains, NY: Longman, 1996.

The Progress of Romance: Literary Historiography and theGothic Novel. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1996.

Ideology and Form in Eighteenth-Century Literature. Lubbock:Texas Tech University Press, 1999.

Falling into Theory: Conflicting Views on Reading Literature.Boston: Bedford St. Martin's, 2/e, 2000.

The Critical Tradition: Classical Texts and ContemporaryTrends. Boston: Bedford St. Martin's, 3/e 2006.

Fact, Fiction and Form: Essays of Ralph Rader (ed., withJames Phelan).  Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2011

Selected Recent (last 15 years) Articles and Book Chapters

"Midrash and Mashal: Difficulty in the Blessing ofEsau." Narrative 5 (October 1996): 253-264.

"A Name by Any Other Rose: Umberto Eco and theSemiotics of Detection." Reading Eco, ed. Rocco Paluzzi (Bloomington:Indiana University Press, 1996), 227-47. Reprinted in Contemporary LiteraryCriticism (Gale Cengage: 2008).

"Farewell My Concubine: The Difficult, the Stubborn,and the Outrage of Gibeah." Agendas for Midrash Study in the 21st Century,ed. Marc Lee Raphael (Williamsburg, VA: William and Mary Press, 1999) 101-122.

"Narrativity and Stasis in Martin Rowson's TristramShandy," The Shandean 11 (1999-2000): 70-91.

 "Monument or Tombstone," Narrative 9, iii(October 2001) 346-351.

“Your Cheatin’ Art: Double Dealing in Cinematic Narrative.”Narrative 13:1 (January 2005): 11-28.

“Genre, Repetition, Temporal Ordering: Some Aspects ofBiblical Narratology,” The Blackwell Companion to Narrative Theory, ed. JamesPhelan and Peter Rabinowitz (New York and London: Blackwell, 2005), 285-98.Reprinted, translated into Mandarin, Beijing: Peking University Press, 2008.

“Keeping Company in Hollywood: Toward an Ethics of theNon-fiction Film,” in Narrative, 15:2 (May 2007): 140-66.

“Robert Alter and The Resistance to Theory” Expositions,2:2 (2008): 213-222.

“The Literary-Theoretical Contribution of Ralph W. Rader,”with James Phelan.  Narrative 18:1 (January 2010), 73-90.

 “The Chicago School.”  The Wylie-BlackwellEncyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory, ed. Gregory Castle et al.New York and London: Blackwell, 2010, 108-118.

“The Novel,” in The Classical Tradition, ed. AnthonyGrafton, et al (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2010),  641-643.

“The Gothic Novel,” in The Oxford Handbook ofEighteenth-Century Fiction, ed. Alan Downey (New York and London: Oxford UP,forthcoming 2011.