Figurally Colored Narration

Wolf Schmid

Published by De Gruyter 2022

Figurally Colored Narration

Case Studies from English, German, and Russian Literature

Wolf Schmid

Volume 81 in the series Narratologia

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110763102

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Figurally colored narration (FCN) is narrator’s discourse (whether in the first or third person) that adopts salient features of character’s text, mainly valuation and designation, without signaling the figural part in any way. Unlike free indirect discourse, FCN does not refer to current acts of consciousness, but to typical, characteristic segments of the character’s text. There are two main modes of FCN: contagion of the narrator’s discourse with a character’s text, and the more or less ironical reproduction of a character’s text in narrative discourse. In the latter case, the narrator’s criticism may refer to either the content of the character’s text or to its form of expression.

This study begins with a definition and an example of FCN as a narrative device, followed by an analysis of terms used for FCN in German, Anglophone and Russian literary criticism. Building on the perception of FCN as a phenomenon of interference between narrator’s and character’s text (text interference), this book analyses the function and applications of FCN in narratives written in German, English and Russian.

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Wolf Schmid, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
1 Introduction: Narrator and Figure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Figurally Colored Narration: Terms and Definitions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
3 Figurally Colored Narration as Text Interference Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
4 Functions and Areas of Application Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
5 Limiting and Uncertain Cases Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Students and scholars of all philologies, especially of literary criticism.
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 163
Illustrations
- Tables: 5
Keywords: Narrative discourse; point of view; text interference

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Published: April 4, 2022
ISBN: 9783110763102

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Published: April 18, 2022
ISBN: 9783110763058