Blending and the Study of Narrative

Published by De Gruyter 2012

Blending and the Study of Narrative

Approaches and Applications

Edited by: Ralf Schneider and Marcus Hartner

Volume 34 in the series Narratologia

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110291230

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The theory of Blending, or Conceptual Integration, proposed by Gilles Fauconnier and Marc Turner, is one of most promising cognitive theories of meaning production. It has been successfully applied to the analysis of poetic discourse and micro-textual elements, such as metaphor. Prose narrative has so far received significantly less attention. The present volume aims to remedy this situation.

Following an introductory discussion of the connections between narrative and the processes of blending, the contributions demonstrate the range of applications of the theory to the study of narrative. They cover issues such as time and space, literary character and perspective, genre, story levels, and fictional minds; some chapters show how such phenomena as metalepsis, counterfactual narration, intermediality, extended metaphors, and suspense can be fruitfully studied from the vantage point of Conceptual Integration. Working within a theoretical framework situated at the intersection of narratology and the cognitive sciences, the book provides both fresh readings for individual literary and film narratives and new impulses for post-classical narratology.

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Ralf Schneider and Marcus Hartner, University of Bielefeld, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Blending and the Study of Narrative: An Introduction RALF SCHNEIDER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Narrative Time, Sequence, and Memory: A Blending Analysis BARBARA DANCYGIER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Attention, Blending, and Suspense in Classic and Experimental Film TODD OAKLEY and VERA TOBIN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Constructing Literary Character and Perspective: An Approach from Psychology and Blending Theory MARCUS HARTNER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Fleshing Out the Blend: The Representation of Counterfactuals in Alternate History in Print, Film, and Television Narratives HILARY DANNENBERG Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Blending in a baciyelmo: Don Quixote’s Genre Blending and the Invention of the Novel MICHAEL SINDING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
The Conceptual Integration Network of Metalepsis ERWIN FEYERSINGER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
The Conceptual Integration of Intermediality: Literary and Cinematic Camera-Eye Narratives CHRISTIAN QUENDLER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Metaphors, Narrative Frames, and Cognitive Distance in Charles Chesnutt’s “Dave’s Neckliss” JENNIFER RIDDLE HARDING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Conceptual Blending in The Waves: “A Mind Thinking” SARAH COPLAND Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Blending and Jazz Narratives: Conceptual Integration of Music and Verbal Meaning in Eudora Welty’s “Powerhouse” ERIK REDLING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
“Allways our rush returning renewed”: Time, Narrative, and Conceptual Blending in Danielewski’s Only Revolutions CHRISTOPHER D. KILGORE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
The Conceptual Blending of Time and Space: Milan Kundera’s Slowness CRAIG HAMILTON Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
The Narrative of Nothing: The Mathematical Blends of Narrator and Hero in Shakespeare’s Henry V AMY COOK Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars (literary studies, narratology, linguistics), libraries, departments
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- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 365
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- Illustrations: 49
Keywords: Narratology; cognitive narratology

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