Unnatural Narratives - Unnatural Narratology

Published by De Gruyter 2011

Unnatural Narratives - Unnatural Narratology

Edited by: Jan Alber and Rüdiger Heinze

Volume 9 in the series linguae & litterae

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110229042

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About this book

In recent years, the study of unnatural narratives has become an exciting new but still disparate research program in narrative theory. For the first time, this collection of essays presents and discusses the new analytical tools that have so far been developed on the basis of unnatural novels, short stories, and plays and extends these findings through analyses of testimonies, comics, graphic novels, films, and oral narratives.

Many narratives do not only mimetically reproduce the world as we know it but confront us with strange narrative worlds which rely on principles that have very little to do with the actual world around us. The essays in this collection develop new narratological tools and modeling systems which are designed to capture the strangeness and extravagance of such anti-realist narratives. Taken together, the essays offer a systematic investigation of anti-mimetic techniques and strategies that relate to different narrative parameters, different media, and different periods within literary history.

focus on up-to-date research questions in narrative theory
presentation of new narratological tools which capture the extravagance of anti-realist narratives
systematic investigation of anti-mimetic narrative strategies
profound analyses looking at different media contexts and periods in literary history

Author information

Jan Alber, University of Freiburg, Germany; Rüdiger Heinze, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany.

Reviews

„Der Sammelband Unnatural Narratives – Unnatural Narratology beeindruckt durch die Vielfältigkeit des untersuchten Materials, die nachdrücklich vor Augen führt, dass in allen Erscheinungsformen des Erzählens – im mündlichen wie schriftlichen, im faktualen wie fiktionalen Erzählen, zu unterschiedlichen Zeiten und in verschiedenen Medien – anti-mimetische, unkonventionelle, verfremdende, d.h. nicht-natürliche Elemente ihren Platz haben (können). Darüber hinaus überzeugen die gewählten analytischen Zugriffe und der argumentative Aufbau der einzelnen Beiträge. Somit bietet dieser Band einen hervorragenden Überblick über den aktuellen Stand einer recht neuen, aber zunehmend Profil gewinnenden Forschungsrichtung.“
Christoph Bartsch in: https://www.diegesis.uni-wuppertal.de/index.php/diegesis/article/view/119/132

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
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Introduction Jan Alber and Rüdiger Heinze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives
What Is Unnatural Narrative Theory? Brian Richardson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
The Diachronic Development of Unnaturalness: A New View on Genre Jan Alber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
II. Unnatural Narrators and Minds
Unnatural Narratology, Impersonal Voices, Real Authors, and Non-Communicative Narration Henrik Skov Nielsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
“In flaming flames”: Crises of Experientiality in Non-Fictional Narratives Stefan Iversen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Toward a Hybrid Approach to the Unnatural: ‘Reading for the Consciousness’ and the Psychodynamics of Experientiality in Caryl Churchill’s Heart’s Desire Caroline Pirlet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
III. Unnatural Time and Causality
Narrative Causality Denaturalized Marina Grishakova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Hollywood Goes Computer Game: Narrative Remediation in the Time-Loop Quests Groundhog Day and 12:01 Martin Hermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Backmasked Messages: On the Fabula Construction in Episodically Reversed Narratives Per Krogh Hansen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
IV. Unnatural Worlds and Events
Unnatural Narrative and Metalepsis: Grant Morrison’s Animal Man Jeff Thoss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Unnatural Worlds and Unnatural Narration in Comics?. A Critical Examination Johannes Fehrle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
Natural or Unnatural?. Linguistic Deep Level Structures in AbE: A Case Study of New South Wales Aboriginal English Andrea Moll Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
Bio Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (Literary Studies), Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 273
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 18
Keywords: Narratology; Narrative; Experimentalism; Transmediality

eBook

Published: September 29, 2011
ISBN: 9783110229042

Hardcover

Published: September 16, 2011
ISBN: 9783110229035