series: Narratologia

Published by De Gruyter

Narratologia

Contributions to Narrative Theory

Edited by: Fotis Jannidis, Matías Martínez, John Pier and Wolf Schmid (executive editor)

ISSN: 1612-8427

Overview
Volumes

The Narratologia series publishes state-of-the-art monographs and collective volumes devoted to modern narrative theory and its historical reconstruction in all the philological disciplines. It is the first narratological forum of its kind in Germany. In addition to literary texts, the series focuses on narration in everyday contexts, in pictorial media, in film and in the new media as well as on narration in historiography, ethnology, medicine, and the law.

The series publishes in German and English. All volumes are peer reviewed by two anonymous assessors.

Topics

book: Narrative Structure and Narrative Knowing in Medicine and Science

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Narrative Structure and Narrative Knowing in Medicine and Science

Martina King, Tom Kindt

Volume 90 in this series

It has become a truism that we all think in the narrative mode, both in everyday life and in science. But what does this mean precisely? Scholars tend to use the term ‘narrative’ in a broad sense, implying not only event-sequencing but also the representation of emotions, basic perceptual processes or complex analyses of data sets. The volume addresses this blind spot by using clear selection criteria: only non-fictional texts by experts are analysed through the lens of both classical and postclassical narratology – from Aristotle to quantum physics and from nineteenth-century psychiatry to early childhood psychology; they fall under various genres such as philosophical treatises, case histories, textbooks, medical reports, video clips, and public lectures. The articles of this volume examine the central but continuously shifting role that event-sequencing plays within scholarly and scientific communication at various points in history – and the diverse functions it serves such as eye witnessing, making an argument, inferencing or reasoning. Thus, they provide a new methodological framework for both literary scholars and historians of science and medicine.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111314310
ISBN:: 9783111314310
ISBN:: 9783111319971
ISBN:: 9783111320175
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Metaleptische Bilder des Erzählens

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Metaleptische Bilder des Erzählens

Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart

Thomas Kuhn-Treichel

Volume 89 in this series

What is narration? This book sheds light on two figurative responses that, in narratology, can be qualified as metalepses (the overlapping of narrative layers): narration as present observing and narration as the immediate production of action. This book pursues both ideas from antiquity to the present, with some far-reaching differences coming to light behind the formal constants.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111317687
ISBN:: 9783111317687
ISBN:: 9783111317823
ISBN:: 9783111317366
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Nationalgeschichte erzählen

Book Ahead of Publication 2023

Nationalgeschichte erzählen

Nicholas Beckmann

Volume 88 in this series

"History is told" is largely the consensus in discussions of history theory about the representation of history. There is, however, a discernible disagreement about how history is told. This volume transfers selected national historiographical narratives into a narrative-theoretical systematics and makes these texts visible in their aesthetic-literary representation, narrative attitude and convention as a construct.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111001319
ISBN:: 9783111001319
ISBN:: 9783111001432
ISBN:: 9783111001227
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Germany
Subject:: General German History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Nonnarrated

Book 2023

The Nonnarrated

Wolf Schmid

Volume 87 in this series

Telling a story requires selecting and assembling individual elements of the events one wishes to communicate. The "nonnarrated" are the events (or parts of events) that were deliberately left out of the selection, meaning all that was not chosen to be told in the story, or chosen not to be told. Since the realm of the nonnarrated in any given story is infinitely large, studying the nonnarrated requires focusing on that which is not told but nevertheless belongs to a story. This monograph explores the phenomenon of the nonnarrated in narrative short forms from Cechov to Murakami and in novels by Dostoevskij and Robbe-Grillet.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111242637
ISBN:: 9783111242637
ISBN:: 9783111242897
ISBN:: 9783111236575
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Handbook of Diachronic Narratology

Book 2023

Handbook of Diachronic Narratology

Peter Hühn, John Pier, Wolf Schmid

Volume 86 in this series

This handbook brings together 42 contributions by leading narratologists devoted to the study of narrative devices in European literatures from antiquity to the present. Each entry examines the use of a specific narrative device in one or two national literatures across the ages, whether in successive or distant periods of time. Through the analysis of representative texts in a range of European languages, the authors compellingly trace the continuities and evolution of storytelling devices, as well as their culture-specific manifestations. In response to Monika Fludernik’s 2003 call for a "diachronization of narratology," this new handbook complements existing synchronic approaches that tend to be ahistorical in their outlook, and departs from postclassical narratologies that often prioritize thematic and ideological concerns. A new direction in narrative theory, diachronic narratology explores previously overlooked questions, from the evolution of free indirect speech from the Middle Ages to the present, to how changes in narrative sequence encoded the shift from a sacred to a secular worldview in early modern Romance literatures. An invaluable new resource for literary theorists, historians, comparatists, discourse analysts, and linguists.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110617481
ISBN:: 9783110617481
ISBN:: 9783110616439
ISBN:: 9783110616644
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Life Storying in Oral History

Book 2023

Life Storying in Oral History

Fictional Contamination and Literary Complexity

Jarmila Mildorf

Volume 85 in this series

This book proposes the concept of "fictional contamination" to capture the fact that fictionalization and literary complexity can be found across different kinds of narrative. Exploring conversational storytelling in oral history and other interviews from socionarratological perspectives, the book systematically discusses key narrative features such as story templates, dialogue, double deixis, focalization or perspective-taking and mind representation as well as special narrative forms including second-person narration and narratives of vicarious experience. These features and forms attest to storytellers’ linguistic creativity and serve the function of involving listeners by making stories more interesting. Shared by fictional and conversational narratives at a basic level, they can bring conversational stories closer to fiction and potentially compromise their credibility if used extensively. Detailed analyses of broad-ranging examples are undertaken against a rich narrative-theoretical background drawn from the fields of narratology, linguistics, oral history, life storytelling, psychology and philosophy. The book is of interest to scholars and students working in these fields and anyone fascinated by the richness of conversational storytelling.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111073101
ISBN:: 9783111073101
ISBN:: 9783111072265
ISBN:: 9783111073187
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Erzählen im Pen-and-Paper-Rollenspiel

Book 2023

Erzählen im Pen-and-Paper-Rollenspiel

Produktion – Rezeption – Didaktik

Jan-Niklas Meier

Volume 84 in this series

Pen-and-paper role-playing games provide many opportunities for storytelling. This well-informed study takes an application-based approach to develop a narratology of pen-and-paper role-play that sheds light on both the communicative and ludic qualities of the object of study. Its narrative design creates potentials for literature pedagogy, which this volume discusses in connection with narratological modeling.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110788983
ISBN:: 9783110788983
ISBN:: 9783110788945
ISBN:: 9783110789003
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Other Genres and Media
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Fantasy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Modulares Erzählen

Book Open Access 2022

Modulares Erzählen

Serialität und Mouvance in der Erzähltradition der „Sieben weisen Meister“

Nico Kunkel

Volume 83 in this series

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This study examines the German tradition of the "Seven Wise Masters" in the form of a digital examination that combines hermeneutical readings, narratological formalization, and statistical textual observations. In this way, it focuses on the principle of serial narration, which has had a considerable impact on narrative traditions, as well as the unique features of individual versions and editions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110986525
ISBN:: 9783110986525
ISBN:: 9783110997620
ISBN:: 9783110986549
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Fictions of Dementia

Book 2022

Fictions of Dementia

Narrative Modes of Presenting Dementia in Anglophone Novels

Susanne Katharina Christ

Volume 82 in this series

Taking its cues from both classical and post-classical narratologies, this study explores both forms and functions of the representation of dementia in Anglophone fictions. Initially, dementia is conceptualised as a narrative-epistemological paradox: The more those affected know what it is like to have dementia, the less they can tell about it. Narrative fiction is the only discourse that provides an imaginative glimpse at the subjective experience of dementia in language. The narratological modelling of four ‘narrative modes’ elaborates how the paradox becomes productive in fiction: Depending on the narrative perspective taken, but also on the type of narration, the technique for representing consciousness and the epistemic strategy of narrating dementia, the respective narrative modes come with different prerequisites and possibilities for narrating dementia. The analysis of four contemporary Anglophone dementia fictions based on the developed model reveals their potential functions: Fiction allows readers to learn about the challenges of dementia, grants them perspective-taking, it trains cognitive flexibility, and explores the meaning of memory, knowledge, narrative and imagination, and thus also offers trajectories of a cultural coping with dementia.

　

　

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110789805
ISBN:: 9783110789805
ISBN:: 9783110789751
ISBN:: 9783110789874
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Aging Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Memory
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Figurally Colored Narration

Book 2022

Figurally Colored Narration

Case Studies from English, German, and Russian Literature

Wolf Schmid

Volume 81 in this series

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.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110763102
ISBN:: 9783110763102
ISBN:: 9783110763164
ISBN:: 9783110763058
ISBN:: 9783111357980
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: A Narratology of Drama

Book 2022

A Narratology of Drama

Dramatic Storytelling in Theory, History, and Culture from the Renaissance to the Twenty-First Century

Christine Schwanecke

Volume 80 in this series

This volume argues against Gérard Genette’s theory that there is an “insurmountable opposition” between drama and narrative and shows that the two forms of storytelling have been productively intertwined throughout literary history. Building on the idea that plays often incorporate elements from other genres, especially narrative ones, the present study theorises drama as a fundamentally narrative genre. Guided by the question of how drama tells stories, the first part of the study delineates the general characteristics of dramatic narration and zooms in on the use of narrative forms in drama. The second part proposes a history of dramatic storytelling from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century that transcends conventional genre boundaries. Close readings of exemplary British plays provide an overview of the dominant narrative modes in each period and point to their impact in the broader cultural and historical context of the plays. Finally, the volume argues that throughout history, highly narrative plays have had a performative power that reached well beyond the stage: dramatic storytelling not only reflects socio-political realities, but also largely shapes them.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110724110
ISBN:: 9783110724110
ISBN:: 9783110724141
ISBN:: 9783110721379
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Handlung, Wissen und Komik im Artusroman

Book 2021

Handlung, Wissen und Komik im Artusroman

Strategien des Erzählens in Wigalois und Diu Crône

Katrin auf der Lake

Volume 79 in this series

This study unites narratology and comic theory to describe evocative narrative strategies. It demonstrates how the narrative strategies used in Arthurian literature pick up on particular forms of knowledge specific to that period of cultural history in the act of literary communication. Alongside narrative strategies that generate comedy, the study thus traces possibilities for reconstructing historically absent inference knowledge.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110732252
ISBN:: 9783110732252
ISBN:: 9783110732306
ISBN:: 9783110725285
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Gesundheit erzählen

Book 2021

Gesundheit erzählen

Ästhetik – Performanz – Ideologie

Letizia Dieckmann, Julian Menninger, Michael Navratil

Volume 78 in this series

While narratives of disease have long been an important object of analysis in disciplines that work with narrative theory, the connection between health and narration has so far received little attention. This volume examines this connection from an interdisciplinary perspective, investigating the aesthetics of health narratives, performances of that narratively generate health, and the ideologies of a diverse range of "healing" narratives.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110747928
ISBN:: 9783110747928
ISBN:: 9783110748055
ISBN:: 9783110747898
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Psychology, Psychoanalysis
Subject:: Other Topics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Making Time

Book 2021

Making Time

World Construction in the Present-Tense Novel

Carolin Gebauer

Volume 77 in this series

2023 Perkins Prize of the International Society for the Study of Narrative

ESSE Book Award for Junior Scholars for a book in the field of Literatures in the English Language

Responding to the current surge in present-tense novels, Making Time is an innovative contribution to narratological research on present-tense usage in narrative fiction. Breaking with the tradition of conceptualizing the present tense purely as a deictic category denoting synchronicity between a narrative event and its presentation, the study redefines present-tense narration as a fully-fledged narrative strategy whose functional potential far exceeds temporal relations between story and discourse. The first part of the volume presents numerous analytical categories that systematically describe the formal, structural, functional, and syntactic dimensions of present-tense usage in narrative fiction. These categories are then deployed to investigate the uses and functions of present-tense narration in selected twenty-first century novels, including Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, Ian McEwan’s Nutshell, and Irvine Welsh’s Skagboys. The seven case studies serve to illustrate the ubiquity of present-tense narration in contemporary fiction, ranging from the historical novel to the thriller, and to investigate the various ways in which the present tense contributes to narrative worldmaking.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110708134
ISBN:: 9783110708134
ISBN:: 9783110708196
ISBN:: 9783110708028
ISBN:: 9783111280240
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Lyrisches Erzählen

Book 2021

Lyrisches Erzählen

Eine Gattungsgeschichte der DDR-Ballade

Marianne Schwarz-Scherer

Volume 76 in this series

Much of the attention paid to the poetry of the GDR was closely tied to one genre and narrative mode – the lyrical narration of the ballad. With a genre history spanning the period 1945 to 1989, this volume presents this distinctive feature of GDR literature using narratological analyses, tracing it to the poetology and aesthetics of the GDR.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110709254
ISBN:: 9783110709254
ISBN:: 9783110709353
ISBN:: 9783110709230
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Poetry
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Fictionality, Factuality, and Reflexivity Across Discourses and Media

Book 2021

Fictionality, Factuality, and Reflexivity Across Discourses and Media

Erika Fülöp, Graham Priest, Richard Saint-Gelais

Volume 75 in this series

Concerned with the nature of the medium and the borders between fact and fiction, reflexivity was a ubiquitous feature of modernist and postmodernist literature and film. While in the wake of the post-postmodern “return to the real” cultural criticism has little time for discussions of reflexivity, it remains a key topic in narratology, as does fictionality. The latter is commonly defined opposition to the real and the factual, but remains conditioned by historical, cultural, discursive, and medium-related factors. Reflexivity blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction, however, by giving fiction a factual edge or by questioning the limits of factuality in non-fictional discourses. Fictionality, factuality, and reflexivity thus constitute a complex triangle of concepts, yet they are rarely considered together. This volume fills this gap by exploring the intricacies of their interactions and interdependence in philosophy, literature, film, and digital media, providing insights into a broad range of their manifestations from the ancient times to today, from East Asia through Europe to the Americas.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110722031
ISBN:: 9783110722031
ISBN:: 9783110720891
ISBN:: 9783110722154
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Elemente der antiken Erzähltheorie

Book Open Access 2021

Elemente der antiken Erzähltheorie

Stefan Feddern

Volume 74 in this series

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This volume is the first to systematically analyze ancient narrative theory in German. The guiding principle is the theory that, although ancient authors like Aristotle were the forerunners of the modern categories of narrative theories, many concepts have been reinterpreted in the course of their reception. It is against this backdrop that this monograph identifies the specific features of ancient narrative theory.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110730937
ISBN:: 9783110730937
ISBN:: 9783110725278
ISBN:: 9783110731026
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Lewis Carroll's "Alice" and Cognitive Narratology

Book 2021

Lewis Carroll's "Alice" and Cognitive Narratology

Author, Reader and Characters

Francesca Arnavas

Volume 73 in this series

We live in an age that is witnessing a growing interest in narrative studies, cognitive neuroscientific tools, mind studies and artificial intelligence hypotheses. This book therefore aims to expand the exegesis of Carroll's "Alice" books, aligning them with the current intellectual environment. The theoretical force of this volume lies in the successful encounter between a great book (and all its polysemous ramifications) and a new interpretative point of view, powerful enough to provide a new original contribution, but well grounded enough not to distort the text itself. Moreover, this book is one of the first to offer a complete, thorough analysis of one single text through the theoretical lens of cognitive narratology, and not just as a series of brief examples embedded within a more general discussion. It emphasises in a more direct, effective way the actual novelty and usefulness of the dialogue established between narrative theory and the cognitive sciences. It links specific concepts elaborated in the theory of cognitive narratology with the analysis of the "Alice" books, helping in this way to discuss, question and extend the concepts themselves, opening up new interpretations and practical methods.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110689273
ISBN:: 9783110689273
ISBN:: 9783110689303
ISBN:: 9783110689075
ISBN:: 9783111104065
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Erfahrung aus Narration

Book 2020

Erfahrung aus Narration

Erinnerungskulturelle Funktionen der Enkelliteratur

Robert Forkel

Volume 72 in this series

The question of how to preserve a “living” (and not merely academic) memory of the Nazi era beyond the lifetime of living witnesses is primarily a question of narrative transmission. In the context of experientiality research in literary studies and using the example of transgenerational story-telling techniques, the study shows how historical experiences can be evoked by reading and embedded into the reader’s personal body of experience.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110673968
ISBN:: 9783110673968
ISBN:: 9783110673869
ISBN:: 9783110674026
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Mündliches Erzählen

Book 2020

Mündliches Erzählen

Verfahren narrativer Rekonstruktion im Gespräch

Elisabeth Gülich, Stefan Pfänder, Carl Eduard Scheidt, Elke Schumann

Volume 71 in this series

This volume offers ready access to Elisabeth Gülich’s individual publications and provides an overview of a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on oral narrative, including storytelling in conversation and in doctor-patient discourse, verbalization of the “unsayable,” repetitive telling of the same story, and the description of linguistic techniques for the treatment of anxiety and seizure disorder.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110685664
ISBN:: 9783110685664
ISBN:: 9783110685756
ISBN:: 9783110676716
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Clinical Medicine
Subject:: Clinical Medicine, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Narrative Polyphonie

Book 2020

Narrative Polyphonie

Formen von Mehrstimmigkeit in deutschsprachigen und anglo-amerikanischen Erzähltexten

Stefanie Roggenbuck

Volume 70 in this series

The study proposes a descriptive vocabulary to encompass the diverse range of variants of polyphony in narrative texts. Along with the genetical system, it establishes categories that enable a differentiated classification of various forms of assertions. The analyses are undertaken from a comparative viewpoint in order to emphasize the translatability of the categories to other national philologies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110668810
ISBN:: 9783110668810
ISBN:: 9783110665727
ISBN:: 9783110640083
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: German Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Narrative Motivierung

Book 2020

Narrative Motivierung

Von der romanischen Renaissance bis zur russischen Postmoderne

Wolf Schmid

Volume 69 in this series

The book first traces historical concepts of motivation. Next, based on narrative works from different cultures and epochs, it demonstrates specific forms of causal and aesthetic motivation. The analysis of works begins with Boccaccio and Cervantes and leads across different cultural forms of romantic, realist, and modernist styles, including postmodern motivation in the works of the Russian author Andrei Bitov.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110691030
ISBN:: 9783110691030
ISBN:: 9783110691108
ISBN:: 9783110690934
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Literature of other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Slavic Literature
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Narrativity, Coherence and Literariness

Book 2020

Narrativity, Coherence and Literariness

A Theoretical Approach with Analyses of Laclos, Kafka and Toussaint

Eva Sabine Wagner

Volume 68 in this series

The search for the defining qualities of narrative has produced an expansive range of definitions which, largely unconnected with each other, obscure the notion of “narrativity” rather than clarifying it.
The first part of this study remedies this shortcoming by developing a graded macro model of narrativity which serves three aims. Firstly, it provides a structured overview of the field of narrative elements and processes. Secondly, it facilitates the classification of narratological approaches by locating them on different stages of narrativity. Finally, it focuses attention on narrative dynamics as interpretative processes by which readers seek to produce narrative coherence.
The second part of this study identifies three different narrative dynamics which characterise Laclos’s "Dangerous Connections," Kafka’s "Castle" and Toussaint’s novels. Wagner bases her analyses of these dynamics not only on the texts themselves but also on the ways in which literary scholars imbue the texts with narrative coherence.
This book provides a long overdue systematisation of the jumbled field of theories of narrativity and opens new perspectives on the difficult relationship between narrative theory and interpretation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110673180
ISBN:: 9783110673180
ISBN:: 9783110664362
ISBN:: 9783110673197
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies and Linguistics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Ambivalentes Erzählen - Ambivalenz erzählen

Book 2020

Ambivalentes Erzählen - Ambivalenz erzählen

Studien zur Poetik des frühneuhochdeutschen Prosaromans

Nina Scheibel

Volume 67 in this series

The study undertakes a systematic narratological analysis of ambivalence in 15^th and 16^th century romances. Rather than focusing on their cultural and historical context, it explores the literary potential and diverse functions of ambivalent narrative, thus providing a different perspective on the narrative strategies of pre-modern texts and their theoretical and methodological understanding.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672589
ISBN:: 9783110672589
ISBN:: 9783110671728
ISBN:: 9783110672701
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Systematik unzuverlässigen Erzählens

Book 2019

Systematik unzuverlässigen Erzählens

Analytische Aufarbeitung und Explikation einer problematischen Kategorie

Janina Jacke

Volume 66 in this series

Unreliable narration is an often-used but controversial narratological category. This volume examines in detail the existing theoretical views and investigates the range of uses of various concepts and types of unreliability. Finally, on this basis and considering the relevant criteria, it proposes an explication of unreliable narration.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110659689
ISBN:: 9783110659689
ISBN:: 9783110659207
ISBN:: 9783110778168
ISBN:: 9783110656794
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Welt(en) erzählen: Paradigmen und Perspektiven

Book 2019

Welt(en) erzählen: Paradigmen und Perspektiven

Christoph Bartsch, Frauke Bode

Volume 65 in this series

Anyone who tells stories describes the worlds where they take place. Narrated worlds are a constitutive part the narrative. Despite their major significance, such worlds are given short shrift in narratology. This volume acknowledges the broad range of processes whereby narratives stage diverse worlds: from premodern to postmodern, realism to fantasy, in literature and film.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110626117
ISBN:: 9783110626117
ISBN:: 9783110624915
ISBN:: 9783110607031
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Theaternarratologie

Book Open Access 2018

Theaternarratologie

Ein erzähltheoretisches Analyseverfahren für Theaterinszenierungen

Jan Horstmann

Volume 64 in this series

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How does theater narrate? Theater narratology thinks narrativity and performativity together. On the basis of narratology and theater studies it develops for the first time an heuristic, analytic model of performative narration that can be practically employed for narratological performance analysis, where the narrative dimension has been hitherto underrepresented.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110597868
ISBN:: 9783110597868
ISBN:: 9783110709049
ISBN:: 9783110595000
ISBN:: 9783110594478
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Performativeness
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Theorie und Typologie narrativer Unzuverlässigkeit am Beispiel englischsprachiger Erzählliteratur

Book 2018

Theorie und Typologie narrativer Unzuverlässigkeit am Beispiel englischsprachiger Erzählliteratur

Robert Vogt

Volume 63 in this series

Narratology has hitherto primarily considered unreliable narratives with homodiegetic narrators. This work widens the scope of narrative unreliability to encompass the various forms of unreliable narration as well as unreliable focalisation. In addition to providing a typology, this work develops descriptive and explanatory models which are illustrated on the basis of an analysis of English fiction.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110557619
ISBN:: 9783110557619
ISBN:: 9783110556797
ISBN:: 9783110548525
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Erzählte Zeiten im Roman der Frühen Neuzeit

Book 2018

Erzählte Zeiten im Roman der Frühen Neuzeit

Eine historische Narratologie der Zeit

Lukas Werner

Volume 62 in this series

This study sketches an historical narratology that integrates into its approach narrative factors, the structure of the narrated world, and semantic elements. With the help of this method, the study reconstructs the diverse, simultaneously present, and sometimes contradictory conceptions of time in literary fiction from the early modern period. It demonstrates that there is not one temporality, but rather a diversity of narrated temporalities.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110566857
ISBN:: 9783110566857
ISBN:: 9783110565614
ISBN:: 9783110565539
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Realistische Narratologie

Book 2017

Realistische Narratologie

Otto Ludwigs "Romanstudien" im Kontext einer Geschichte der Erzähltheorie

Matthias Grüne

Volume 61 in this series

Otto Ludwig’s Romanstudien is among the most important works of 20^th century German narratology history. Matthias Grüne explores the systematic and historical impact of Ludwig’s reflections on narrative forms. The study clearly discloses the epistemological roots of the text and the reasons it should be valued as a key document of literary realism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110541502
ISBN:: 9783110541502
ISBN:: 9783110541328
ISBN:: 9783110532838
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: How to Do Things with Narrative

Book 2017

How to Do Things with Narrative

Cognitive and Diachronic Perspectives

Jan Alber, Greta Olson, Birte Christ

Volume 60 in this series

This volume combines narratological analyses with an investigation of the ideological ramifications of the use of narrative strategies. The collected essays do not posit any intrinsic or stable connection between narrative techniques and world views. Rather, they demonstrate that world views are inevitably expressed through highly specific formal strategies. This insight leads the contributors to investigate why and how particular narrative techniques are employed and under what conditions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110569957
ISBN:: 9783110569957
ISBN:: 9783110651676
ISBN:: 9783110568462
ISBN:: 9783110567816
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Perturbatory Narration in Film

Book 2017

Perturbatory Narration in Film

Narratological Studies on Deception, Paradox and Empuzzlement

Sabine Schlickers, Vera Toro

Volume 59 in this series

Perturbatory narration is a heuristic concept, applicable both quantitatively and qualitatively to a specific type of complex narratives for which narratology has not yet found an appropriate classification. This new term refers to complex narrative strategies that produce intentionally disturbing effects such as surprise, confusion, doubt or disappointment ‒ effects that interrupt or suspend immersion in the aesthetic reception process. The initial task, however, is to indicate what narrative conventions are, in fact, questioned, transgressed, or given new life by perturbatory narration. The key to our modeling lies in its combination of individual procedures of narrative strategies hitherto regarded as unrelated. Their interplay has not yet attracted scholarly attention. The essays in this volume present a wide range of contemporary films from Canada, the USA, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, France and Germany. The perturbatory narration concept enables to typify and systematize moments of disruption in fictional texts, combining narrative processes of deception, paradox and/or empuzzlement and to analyse these perturbing narrative strategies in very different filmic texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110566574
ISBN:: 9783110566574
ISBN:: 9783110564426
ISBN:: 9783110560824
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Film
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Mentale Ereignisse

Book 2017

Mentale Ereignisse

Bewusstseinsveränderungen in europäischen Erzählwerken vom Mittelalter bis zur Moderne

Wolf Schmid

Volume 58 in this series

Mental events in the minds of narrated individuals are an essential feature of narrated works. This study develops a typology of techniques for depicting the consciousness of narrated figures, and also seeks to delineate criteria and conditions for mental events. It then investigates how changes in consciousness are depicted in traditional narrative works from various cultures and epochs.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110538229
ISBN:: 9783110538229
ISBN:: 9783110651614
ISBN:: 9783110537390
ISBN:: 9783110537055
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Emerging Vectors of Narratology

Book 2017

Emerging Vectors of Narratology

Per Krogh Hansen, John Pier, Philippe Roussin, Wolf Schmid

Volume 57 in this series

Narratology has been flourishing in recent years thanks to investigations into a broad spectrum of narratives, at the same time diversifying its theoretical and disciplinary scope as it has sought to specify the status of narrative within both society and scientific research. The diverse endeavors engendered by this situation have brought narrative to the forefront of the social and human sciences and have generated new synergies in the research environment.
Emerging Vectors of Narratology brings together 27 state-of-the-art contributions by an international panel of authors that provide insight into the wealth of new developments in the field. The book consists of two sections. "Contexts" includes articles that reframe and refine such topics as the implied author, narrative causation and transmedial forms of narrative; it also investigates various historical and cultural aspects of narrative from the narratological perspective. "Openings" expands on these and other questions by addressing the narrative turn, cognitive issues, narrative complexity and metatheoretical matters.
The book is intended for narratologists as well as for readers in the social and human sciences for whom narrative has become a crucial matrix of inquiry.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110555158
ISBN:: 9783110555158
ISBN:: 9783110554885
ISBN:: 9783110553789
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Understanding Metalepsis

Book 2017

Understanding Metalepsis

The Hermeneutics of Narrative Transgression

Julian Hanebeck

Volume 56 in this series

Understanding Metalepsis provides a state-of-the-art overview of the narratological concept of metalepsis and develops new ways of investigating the forms and functions of metaleptic narratives. Informed by a hermeneutic perspective, this study offers not only an account of the complexities that characterize the process of understanding metaleptic phenomena, but also metatheoretical insights into the hermeneutics of narratology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110516920
ISBN:: 9783110516920
ISBN:: 9783110764611
ISBN:: 9783110515251
ISBN:: 9783110501223
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Facing Loss and Death

Book 2016

Facing Loss and Death

Narrative and Eventfulness in Lyric Poetry

Peter Hühn, Britta Goerke, Heilna du Plooy, Stefan Schenk-Haupt

Volume 55 in this series

Lyric poetry as a temporal art-form makes pervasive use of narrative elements in organizing the progressive course of the poetic text. This observation justifies the application of the advanced methodology of narratology to the systematic analysis of lyric poems. After a concise presentation of this transgeneric approach to poetry, the study sets out to demonstrate its practical fruitfulness in detailed analyses of a large number of English (and some American) poems from the early modern period to the present. The narratological approach proves particularly suited to focus on the hitherto widely neglected dimension of sequentiality, the dynamic progression of the poetic utterance and its eventful turns, which largely constitute the raison d'être of the poem. To facilitate comparisons, the examples chosen share one special thematic complex, the traumatic experience of severe loss: the death of a beloved person, the imminence of one’s own death, the death of a revered fellow-poet and the loss of a fundamental stabilizing order. The function of the poems can be described as facing the traumatic experience in the poetic medium and employing various coping strategies. The poems thus possess a therapeutic impetus.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110486339
ISBN:: 9783110486339
ISBN:: 9783110484984
ISBN:: 9783110484229
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: How Literary Worlds Are Shaped

Book 2016

How Literary Worlds Are Shaped

A Comparative Poetics of Literary Imagination

Bo Pettersson

Volume 54 in this series

Literary studies still lack an extensive comparative analysis of different kinds of literature, including ancient and non-Western. How Literary Worlds Are Shaped. A Comparative Poetics of Literary Imagination aims to provide such a study. Literature, it claims, is based on individual and shared human imagination, which creates literary worlds that blend the real and the fantastic, mimesis and genre, often modulated by different kinds of unreliability. The main building blocks of literary worlds are their oral, visual and written modes and three themes: challenge, perception and relation. They are blended and inflected in different ways by combinations of narratives and figures, indirection, thwarted aspirations, meta-usages, hypothetical action as well as hierarchies and blends of genres and text types. Moreover, literary worlds are not only constructed by humans but also shape their lives and reinforce their sense of wonder. Finally, ten reasons are given in order to show how this comparative view can be of use in literary studies. In sum, How Literary Worlds Are Shaped is the first study to present a wide-ranging and detailed comparative account of the makings of literary worlds.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110486315
ISBN:: 9783110486315
ISBN:: 9783110611076
ISBN:: 9783110484939
ISBN:: 9783110483475
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Fiktionales versus faktuales Erzählen fremden Bewusstseins

Book 2016

Fiktionales versus faktuales Erzählen fremden Bewusstseins

Frederike Lagoni

Volume 53 in this series

The depiction of another person’s consciousness is often regarded as the key characteristic of fictional narrative. Is it true, though, that factual narrative avoids presenting alien consciousness? This question is the focus of the present study. Using a computer-assisted diachronic narratological approach, the author analyzes a corpus of five coming-of-age novels and five biographies from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110481921
ISBN:: 9783110481921
ISBN:: 9783110479980
ISBN:: 9783110477054
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Audionarratology

Book 2016

Audionarratology

Interfaces of Sound and Narrative

Jarmila Mildorf, Till Kinzel

Volume 52 in this series

Audionarratology is a new 'postclassical' narratology that explores interfaces of sound, voice, music and narrative in different media and across disciplinary boundaries. Drawing on sound studies and transmedial narratology, audionarratology combines concepts from both while also offering fresh insights. Sound studies investigate sound in its various manifestations from disciplinary angles as varied as anthropology, history, sociology, acoustics, articulatory phonetics, musicology or sound psychology. Still, a specifically narrative focus is often missing. Narratology has broadened its scope to look at narratives from transdisciplinary and transmedial perspectives. However, there is a bias towards visual or audio-visual media such as comics and graphic novels, film, TV, hyperfiction and pictorial art. The aim of this book is to foreground the oral and aural sides of storytelling, asking how sound, voice and music support narrative structure or even assume narrative functions in their own right. It brings together cutting-edge research on forms of sound narration hitherto neglected in narratology: radio plays, audiobooks, audio guides, mobile phone theatre, performance poetry, concept albums, digital stories, computer games, songs.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110472752
ISBN:: 9783110472752
ISBN:: 9783110472257
ISBN:: 9783110464320
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Literarische Räume der Herkunft

Book 2016

Literarische Räume der Herkunft

Fallstudien zu einer historischen Narratologie

Maximilian Benz, Katrin Dennerlein

Volume 51 in this series

Whether in the Homeric epic, ancient romance, medieval epic poem, early modern prose romance, autobiography, postcolonial novel, the principal character’s place of origin has played a critical role in the narrative world.
This volume uses case examples to put the spotlight on the special connections between place and origin.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110444681
ISBN:: 9783110444681
ISBN:: 9783110442113
ISBN:: 9783110436228
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Reading Graphic Novels

Book 2016

Reading Graphic Novels

Genre and Narration

Achim Hescher

Volume 50 in this series

Distinguishing the graphic novel from other types of comic books has presented problems due to the fuzziness of category boundaries. Against the backdrop of prototype theory, the author establishes the graphic novel as a genre whose core feature is complexity, which again is defined by seven gradable subcategories: 1) multilayered plot and narration, 2) multireferential use of color, 3) complex text-image relation, 4) meaning-enhancing panel design and layout, 5) structural performativity, 6) references to texts/media, and 7) self-referential and metafictional devices. Regarding the subcategory of narration, the existence of a narrator as known from classical narratology can no longer be assumed. In addition, conventional focalization cannot account for two crucial parameters of the comics image: what is shown (point of view, including mise en scène) and what is seen (character perception). On the basis of François Jost’s concepts of ocularization and focalization, this book presents an analytical framework for graphic novels beyond conventional narratology and finally discusses aspects of subjectivity, a focal paradigm in the latest research. It is intended for advanced students of literature, scholars, and comics experts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110445947
ISBN:: 9783110445947
ISBN:: 9783110577709
ISBN:: 9783110445398
ISBN:: 9783110445237
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Graphic Novel
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: How to Make Believe

Book 2015

How to Make Believe

The Fictional Truths of the Representational Arts

J. Alexander Bareis, Lene Nordrum

Volume 49 in this series

A major question in studies of aesthetic expression is how we can understand and explain similarities and differences among different forms of representation. In the current volume, this question is addressed through the lens of make-believe theory, a philosophical theory broadly introduced by two seminal works – Kendall Walton’s Mimesis as Make-Believe and Gregory Currie's The Nature of Fiction, both published 1990. Since then, make-believe theory has become central in the philosphical discussion of representation. As a first of its kind, the current volume comprises 17 detailed studies of highly different forms of representation, such as novels, plays, TV-series, role games, computer games, lamentation poetry and memoirs. The collection contributes to establishing make-believe theory as a powerful theoretical tool for a wide array of studies traditionally falling under the humanities umbrella.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110443875
ISBN:: 9783110441536
ISBN:: 9783110443875
ISBN:: 9783110435726
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Zeiten erzählen

Book 2015

Zeiten erzählen

Ansätze – Aspekte – Analysen

Antonius Weixler, Lukas Werner

Volume 48 in this series

Time and narrative are inseparably connected: there can be no narrative without time, and no time without narrative. Beyond this systemic relationship, which has been a favorite concern of narrative theory, the interplay of time and narrative evokes a broad range of aesthetic phenomena. This volume examines the multiplicity of time from methodological, medial, generic, and historical perspectives.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110429473
ISBN:: 9783110437805
ISBN:: 9783110429473
ISBN:: 9783110429510
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Automatische Erkennung von Redewiedergabe

Book 2015

Automatische Erkennung von Redewiedergabe

Ein Beitrag zur quantitativen Narratologie

Annelen Brunner

Volume 47 in this series

This study pertaining to the field of digital humanities takes a new approach to examine a familiar narratological phenomenon. It investigates how to identify the representation of speech, thought, and writing in narrative texts using digital methods. It thus takes a step toward narratological studies that include large quantities of text, enabling a new view of narrative.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110417425
ISBN:: 978-3-11-041731-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-041742-5
ISBN:: 9783110417470
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Erzählen über Konflikte

Book 2015

Erzählen über Konflikte

Ein Beitrag zur digitalen Narratologie

Evelyn Gius

Volume 46 in this series

Relationships between the what and the how in narratives about labor disputes are the focus of this study. It reveals interdependencies between narratological phenomena and conflict, using an application-oriented methodology that combines a strong empirical base with major theoretical insights, thereby expanding perspectives in narratology and beyond.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110422405
ISBN:: 978-3-11-042639-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-042240-5
ISBN:: 9783110422528
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Skaz und Unreliable Narration

Book 2015

Skaz und Unreliable Narration

Entwurf einer neuen Typologie des Erzählers

Andreas Ohme

Volume 45 in this series

For decades, experts in Slavic studies and English and American studies have engaged in separate discussions on the narratological concepts of skaz and unreliable narration, generally unbeknownst to each other. This study challenges earlier attempts to define these terms and uses close textual analysis to integrate these stylistic and semantic phenomena for the first time into a new and synthetic typology of the narrator.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110407976
ISBN:: 978-3-11-040389-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-040797-6
ISBN:: 9783110408058
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: Literature of other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Slavic Literature
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness

Book 2015

Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness

Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Vera Nünning

Volume 44 in this series

Though the phenomenon known as “unreliable narration” or “narrative unreliability” has received a lot of attention during the last two decades, narratological research has mainly focused on its manifestations in narrative fiction, particularly in homodiegetic or first-person narration. Except for film, forms and functions of unreliable narration in other genres, media and disciplines have so far been relatively neglected. The present volume redresses the balance by directing scholarly attention to disciplines and domains that narratology has so far largely ignored. It aims at initiating an interdisciplinary approach to, and debate on, narrative unreliability, exploring unreliable narration in a broad range of literary genres, other media and non-fictional text-types, contexts and disciplines beyond literary studies. Crossing the boundaries between genres, media, and disciplines, the volume acknowledges that the question of whether or not to believe or trust a narrator transcends the field of literature: The issues of (un)reliability and (un)trustworthiness play a crucial role in many areas of human life as well as a wide spectrum of academic fields ranging from law to history, and from psychology to the study of culture.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110408263
ISBN:: 978-3-11-040810-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-040826-3
ISBN:: 9783110553093
ISBN:: 9783110408416
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Experientiality of Narrative

Book 2014

The Experientiality of Narrative

An Enactivist Approach

Marco Caracciolo

Volume 43 in this series

Recent developments in cognitive narrative theory have called attention to readers' active participation in making sense of narrative. However, while most psychologically inspired models address interpreters' subpersonal (i.e., unconscious) responses, the experiential level of their engagement with narrative remains relatively undertheorized. Building on theories of experience and embodiment within today's "second-generation" cognitive science, and opening a dialogue with so-called "enactivist" philosophy, this book sets out to explore how narrative experiences arise from the interaction between textual cues and readers' past experiences. Caracciolo's study offers a phenomenologically inspired account of narrative, spanning a wide gamut of responses such as the embodied dynamic of imagining a fictional world, empathetic perspective-taking in relating to characters, and "higher-order" evaluations and interpretations. Only by placing a premium on how such modes of engagement are intertwined in experience, Caracciolo argues, can we do justice to narrative's psychological and existential impact on our lives. These insights are illustrated through close readings of literary texts ranging from Émile Zola's Germinal to José Saramago's Blindness.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110365658
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027817-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036565-8
ISBN:: 9783110552997
ISBN:: 9783110377804
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Beyond Classical Narration

Book 2014

Beyond Classical Narration

Transmedial and Unnatural Challenges

Jan Alber, Per Krogh Hansen

Volume 42 in this series

This collection of essays looks at two important manifestations of postclassical narratology, namely transmedial narratology on the one hand, and unnatural narratology on the other. The articles deal with films, graphic novels, computer games, web series, the performing arts, journalism, reality games, music, musicals, and the representation of impossibilities. The essays demonstrate how new media and genres as well as unnatural narratives challenge classical forms of narration in ways that call for the development of analytical tools and modelling systems that move beyond classical structuralist narratology. The articles thus contribute to the further development of both transmedial and unnatural narrative theory, two of the most important manifestations of postclassical narratology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110353242
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035257-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035324-2
ISBN:: 9783110376838
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Lesermodelle und Lesertheorien

Book 2014

Lesermodelle und Lesertheorien

Historische und systematische Perspektiven

Marcus Willand

Volume 41 in this series

Literaturwissenschaftliche Theorie und Praxis ist von einer bislang kaum wahrgenommenen Asymmetrie gekennzeichnet: dem Kontrast zwischen den intensiven Bemühungen, Rezeptionsforschung und -theorie als Disziplin wissenschaftlich zu fundieren, und den unzulänglichen Versuchen, die aus diesen Positionen hervorgehenden Lesermodelle systematisch zu erfassen. Eine solche Systematisierung steht im Zentrum dieser wissenschaftstheoretischen Arbeit.

Ein ähnliches Ungleichgewicht besteht zwischen dem großen Aufwand, mit dem Editionsphilologien eine standardisierte Sicherung von Primärtexten als Vorbereitung der Textinterpretation betreiben, und der limitierten Aufmerksamkeit, die dabei historischen Rezeptionstexten eingeräumt wird. Während der erste Teil der Arbeit Lesermodelle systematisiert und hinsichtlich ihrer Funktionalisierbarkeit für eine historisierende Literaturwissenschaft prüft, formuliert der zweite Teil eine theoretische Begründung und einen methodischen Entwurf der historisierenden Rezeptionsanalyse. Sie sichtet und sichert Rezeptionszeugnisse realer Leser zur Stützung der interpretativ-hermeneutischen, sozialhistorischen und im weitesten Sinne empirischen Argumentation literaturwissenschaftlicher Historisierung.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110343182
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034184-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034318-2
ISBN:: 9783110553604
ISBN:: 9783110368406
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Communication Science, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Filmisches Erzählen

Book 2014

Filmisches Erzählen

Typologie und Geschichte

Stephan Brössel

Volume 40 in this series

Cinematic structures in literature have generally been examined from the perspective of intermediality theory, thereby neglecting some particular features of cinematic narrative. The author develops an analytic model based on narratology and sensitivity to context, offering insights into the typological spectrum of cinematic narrative and its history from the 19^thcentury until the present day.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110351002
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035058-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035100-2
ISBN:: 9783110553628
ISBN:: 9783110368390
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Film
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Über die Grenze

Book 2013

Über die Grenze

Metalepse in Text- und Bildmedien des Altertums

Ute E. Eisen, Peter von Möllendorff

Volume 39 in this series

There has been little previous research in ancient studies on the narratological notion of metalepses. The essays in this volume describe the forms, functions, and effects of metalepses in texts and artifacts. The authors demonstrate the diversity and ubiquity of metalepses as they occur in Akkadian and Egyptian literature, in the Hebrew Bible, in rabbinical Midrashim, in ancient pagan literature of all periods, and in early Christian literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110331721
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033156-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033172-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Textus - Contextus - Circumtextus

Book 2013

Textus - Contextus - Circumtextus

Mythos im Ausgang von Joyce, Aristoteles und Ricoeur

Johanna Sprondel

Volume 38 in this series

This work uses textual hermeneutics to examine how we might conceive of myth as method. Following the central thesis that myth is uniquely suited for depicting cultural, historical, and social change, this book analyzes the topic through the examples of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Aristotelian poetics, and the late writings of Paul Ricœur. This interdisciplinary study makes a literary and philosophical contribution to elucidating the question of what we narrate when we are narrating myths.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110311044
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031091-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031104-4
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: History of Philosophy
Subject:: Modern Philosophy
Subject:: 20th and 21st Century Philosophy
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels

Book 2013

From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels

Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative

Daniel Stein, Jan-Noël Thon

Volume 37 in this series

This essay collection examines the theory and history of graphic narrative – realized in various different formats, including comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels – as one of the most interesting and versatile forms of storytelling in contemporary media culture. The contributions assembled in this volume test the applicability of narratological concepts to graphic narrative, examine aspects of graphic narrative beyond the ‘single work,’ consider the development of particular narrative strategies within individual genres, and trace the forms and functions of graphic narrative across cultures. Analyzing a wide range of texts, genres, and narrative strategies from both theoretical and historical perspectives, the international group of scholars gathered here offers state-of-the-art research on graphic narrative in the context of an increasingly postclassical and transmedial narratology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110282023
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028181-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028202-3
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Graphic Novel
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Der Präsensroman

Book 2013

Der Präsensroman

Armen Avanessian, Anke Hennig

Volume 36 in this series

This minutely detailed examination of a supposedly small grammatical detail, the use of the present tense, opens up new perspectives on a founding myth of the aesthetics of modernity: the longing for presence. This collection approaches the issue by documenting how the present tense became dominant in the 20th century novel. The authors draw on perspectives in fiction theory and narratology to delineate facets of this fundamental shift in literary aesthetics from the past tense to the present.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110282177
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025848-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028217-7
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies and Linguistics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die fünf Ströme des Erzählens

Book 2013

Die fünf Ströme des Erzählens

Eine Anthropologie der Narration

Michael Neumann

Volume 35 in this series

Storytelling is an essential element of human nature. This study identifies five universal "streams of narrative" - that is, five "hyper-genres" that serve as a system for classifying virtually all kinds of narration. In conjunction with concepts drawn from biology, psychology, and sociology, the study develops a solid anthropological foundation for these five streams of narrative. The author uses examples from diverse cultures, eras, and media to demonstrate the occurrence of overlapping and blending between the streams.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110312959
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031288-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031295-9
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Mythology and Folk Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Blending and the Study of Narrative

Book 2012

Blending and the Study of Narrative

Approaches and Applications

Ralf Schneider, Marcus Hartner

Volume 34 in this series

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.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110291230
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029112-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029123-0
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Authentisches Erzählen

Book 2012

Authentisches Erzählen

Produktion, Narration, Rezeption

Antonius Weixler

Volume 33 in this series

A central feature of the newer forms of authenticity is that they replace the truth of what is presented with the truthfulness of the presentation. While academic discussion of authenticity has focused mainly on the aesthetic aspects, this volume focuses on the narrative dimension of the phenomenon. The authors thereby reveal a conceptual shift from referential to relational authenticity. The essays examine issues related to production, narration, and reception, and thus provide the first contribution from narrative theory to research on authenticity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110291254
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029113-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029125-4
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Perspektivische Interaktion im Roman

Book 2012

Perspektivische Interaktion im Roman

Kognition, Rezeption, Interpretation

Marcus Hartner

Volume 32 in this series

How do we internalize literary characters and their fictional consciousness when we are reading? How does multi-perspectivity function? Drawing on modern cognitive research, this study addresses how the perspectives of different characters interact, and demonstrates that this interaction plays a critical role in our understanding and interpretation of literary texts. Using the English novel as an example, the author develops a general theory of perspectival interaction and demonstrates its explanatory power through detailed illustrative analyses.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110290073
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028983-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029007-3
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Narrativität als Begriff

Book 2012

Narrativität als Begriff

Analysen und Anwendungsbeispiele zwischen philologischer und anthropologischer Orientierung

Matthias Aumüller

Volume 31 in this series

The term ‘narrativity’ has gained considerable currency. But what does it actually mean? This is the question considered in the articles by linguists, media scholars, psychologists and other specialist academics that are compiled in this volume. They reveal the diversity of ways in which this term is used and describe various methods of delineation. The results indicate that narrativity is an umbrella term with a content that ranges from a philological (structure related) orientation to an anthropological (interpretation related) orientation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110278514
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027836-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027851-4
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Interpersonal Communication
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Strange Voices in Narrative Fiction

Book 2011

Strange Voices in Narrative Fiction

Per Krogh Hansen, Stefan Iversen, Henrik Skov Nielsen, Rolf Reitan

Volume 30 in this series

From its beginnings narratology has incorporated a communicative model of literary narratives, considering these as simulations of natural, oral acts of communication. This approach, however, has had some problems with accounting for the strangeness and anomalies of modern and postmodern narratives. As many skeptics have shown, not even classical realism conforms to the standard set by oral or ‘natural’ storytelling. Thus, an urge to confront narratology with the difficult task of reconsidering a most basic premise in its theoretical and analytical endeavors has, for some time, been undeniable.

During the 2000s, Nordic narratologists have been among the most active and insistent critics of the communicative model. They share a marked skepticism towards the idea of using ‘natural’ narratives as a model for understanding and interpreting all kinds of narratives, and for all of them, the distinction of fiction is of vital importance.

This anthology presents a collection of new articles that deal with strange narratives, narratives of the strange, or, more generally, with the strangeness of fiction, and even with some strange aspects of narratology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110268645
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026857-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026864-5
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Time

From Concept to Narrative Construct: A Reader

Jan Christoph Meister, Wilhelm Schernus

Volume 29 in this series

The present volume is targeted at an interdisciplinary audience, i.e. partly at literary scholars/narratologists interested in time theory outside their field, and partly at scholars outside literary studies who in turn would like to learn more about such concepts created in narrative theory. The anthology assembles both English-speaking and German contributions to a narrative theory of time constructs which have thus far not been translated into English, but have – directly or indirectly – inspired the theoretical discourse across disciplines.

The common methodological focus of the articles assembled here concerns the way in which the experience of chronological structure and ordering in (experienced or imagined) phenomena can be traced back to a logic of time “constructs”. Narrative time constructs – that is: models of chronological ordering which we generate while processing narratively encoded information – constitute a particularly rich body of examples. How we experience time is directly linked to how we narrate information, and how we re-construct principles of temporal ordering in the narrated content. The logic of narrative time constructs has therefore been of interest not only to narrative theory, but also to philosophy and cognitive science, and more recently to computational approaches toward modelling human time experience.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110227185
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022208-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022718-5
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literature of other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Metalepsis in Popular Culture

Book 2011

Metalepsis in Popular Culture

Karin Kukkonen, Sonja Klimek

Volume 28 in this series

When readers become victims of the murder mysteries they are immersed in, when superheroes embark on a quest to challenge their authors or when the fictional rock band Gorillaz flirt with Madonna during their performance, then metalepsis in popular culture occurs. Metalepsis describes the transgression of the boundary between the fictional world and (a representation of) the real world. This volume establishes a transmedial definition of metalepsis and explores the phenomenon in twelve case studies across media and genres of popular culture: from film, TV series, animated cartoons, graphic novels and popular fiction to pop music, music videos, holographic projections and fan cultures.

Narrative studies have considered metalepsis so far largely as a phenomenon of postmodern or avant-garde literature. Metalepsis in Popular Culture investigates metalepsis’ ties to the popular and traces its transmedial importance through a wealth of examples from the turn of the 20th century to this day. The articles also address larger issues such as readerly immersion, the appeal of complexity in popular culture, or the negotiation of fiction and reality in media, and invite readers to rethink these issues through the prism of metalepsis.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110252804
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025278-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025280-4
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: General Cultural Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Current Trends in Narratology

Book 2011

Current Trends in Narratology

Greta Olson

Volume 27 in this series

Current Trends in Narratology offers an overview of cutting-edge approaches to theories of storytelling. The introduction details how new emphases on cognitive processing, non-prose and multimedia narratives, and interdisciplinary approaches to narratology have altered how narration, narrative, and narrativity are understood. The volume also introduces a third post-classical direction of research ‑ comparative narratology ‑ and describes how developments in Germany, Israel, and France may be compared with Anglophone research. Leading international scholars including Monika Fludernik, Richard Gerrig, Ansgar Nünning, John Pier, Brian Richardson, Alan Palmer, and Werner Wolf describe not only their newest research but also how this work dovetails with larger narratological developments.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110255003
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025499-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025500-3
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Filmnarratologie

Book 2011

Filmnarratologie

Ein erzähltheoretisches Analysemodell

Markus Kuhn

Volume 26 in this series

Tales are told everywhere, not only in literature. Also other media, especially film, increasingly come into the focus of narrative theory. With his film narratology, Markus Kuhn provides the hitherto most comprehensive approach to the narrative analysis of the feature film and presents for the first time a systematic and theoretically coherent model of narratological film analysis. The practical and scholarly use lies both in the concise appraisal of the research situation as well as in the development of an application-oriented analysis model, which is illustrated by numerous examples of film.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110253559
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025354-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025355-9
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Film
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Der phantastische Film

Book 2010

Der phantastische Film

Instabile Narrationen und die Narration der Instabilität

Claudia Pinkas

Volume 25 in this series

This book investigates the narrated worlds of fantastic film and the methods of their narrative mediation. This includes instable and ambiguous perspectives of perception, abandonment and disintegration of spatial-temporal continuity, instances of destabilized narrators, blending of the narrative levels as well as categories of figure, space and the event of crossing borders of the genre in the staging of virtual media realities in the fantastic film. The book refers to examples of the early years of fictional film up to the present.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110237573
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023756-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023757-3
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Film
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Intermediality and Storytelling

Book 2010

Intermediality and Storytelling

Marina Grishakova, Marie-Laure Ryan

Volume 24 in this series

The ‘narrative turn’ in the humanities, which expanded the study of narrative to various disciplines, has found a correlate in the ‘medial turn’ in narratology. Long restricted to language-based literary fiction, narratology has found new life in the recognition that storytelling can take place in a variety of media, and often combines signs belonging to different semiotic categories: visual, auditory, linguistic and perhaps even tactile. The essays gathered in this volume apply the newly gained awareness of the expressive power of media to particular texts, demonstrating the productivity of a medium-aware analysis. Through the examination of a wide variety of different media, ranging from widely studied, such as literature and film, to new, neglected, or non-standard ones, such as graphic novels, photography, television, musicals, computer games and advertising, they address some of the most fundamental questions raised by the medial turn in narratology: how can narrative meaning be created in media other than language; how do different types of signs collaborate with each other in so-called ‘multi-modal works’, and what new forms of narrativity are made possible by the emergence of digital media.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110237740
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023773-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023774-0
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Erfahrung und Geschichte

Book 2010

Erfahrung und Geschichte

Historische Sinnbildung im Pränarrativen

Thiemo Breyer, Daniel Creutz

Volume 23 in this series

In the interdisciplinary discourse between philosophy and historical, literary, and cultural studies this book explores the relationship between historical narratives and the experiences on which they are based and which give the first impetus for a genuine need to tell the story. Here a new concept of historical experience is formulated which elucidates the pre-narrative dimensions of historical creation of meaning and thus also enables a more adequate determination of the relationship of history and narration as well as individual and collective history.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110240436
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024042-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024043-6
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Narratologie des Raumes

Book 2009

Narratologie des Raumes

Katrin Dennerlein

Volume 22 in this series

The present study concerns itself with the development of a systematic set of instruments for describing concrete space in fictional narrative texts. It contains chapters on the linguistic generation of space, on its narrative mediation through the narration of events, of perceptions and through descriptions, on spatial structures and space-specific configurations of knowledge. In it, account is also taken of concepts from cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics, from pragmatics, social geography and evolutionary psychology. The concepts developed are tested on examples of text.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110219920
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021991-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021992-0
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: German Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Slavische Erzähltheorie

Book 2009

Slavische Erzähltheorie

Russische und tschechische Ansätze

Wolf Schmid

Volume 21 in this series

The eight contributions to this collection, written by members of the ‘Narratology research group in Hamburg and by external experts, contain the basic categories of Russian and Czech narratology. These became significant for the development of international narratology or for the further development potential of the theory. The studied concepts include ‘fable’ and ‘subject’, ‘subject development’, ‘event’ and ‘fictional worlds’. The comparative studies explore and discuss Russian composition theory, the author theories of Slavic functionalism, formalistic film and theater concepts and narrative semantics in the conception of Prague structuralism. The spectrum of the discussed theorists includes the Russian formalist Viktor Shklovsky and the formalism-leaning theorist Michail Petrovsky, the Czech structuralist Jan Mukařovský, Felix Vodička and Lubomír Doležel as well as Yuri Lotman, the central figure of the Moscow-Tartu school.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110225945
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022593-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022594-5
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Literature of other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Slavic Literature
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Narratology in the Age of Cross-Disciplinary Narrative Research

Book 2009

Narratology in the Age of Cross-Disciplinary Narrative Research

Sandra Heinen, Roy Sommer

Volume 20 in this series

Narrative Research, once the domain of structuralist literary theory, has over the last 15 years developed into an international and interdisciplinary field. It is now commonly agreed that storytelling functions as a fundamental cognitive tool for sense-making and meaning production, and that human beings structure and communicate lived experience through oral, written and visual stories. Entitled Narratology in the Age of Cross-Disciplinary Narrative Research, this volume collects fifteen essays which look at narrative and narrativity from various perspectives, including literary studies and hermeneutics, cognitive theory and creativity research, metaphor studies, film theory and intermediality, as well as memory studies, musicology, theology and psychology. The topics touch on a wide range of issues, such as the current state of narratology and its potential for development, narrativity in visual and auditive art forms, the cultural functions of narrative, and the role of narrative concepts across the disciplines. The volume introduces interested newcomers to the ongoing debate, reflecting the diversity of research questions and methodological approaches involved. It takes a critical, yet cautiously optimistic stance with regard to the potential for interdisciplinary collaboration between narrative researchers, and invites experienced readers from any discipline interested in narrative to join this important debate, which promotes the exchange of ideas, concepts and methods between the humanities and the social sciences.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110222432
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022242-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022243-2
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Handbook of Narratology

Book 2009

Handbook of Narratology

Peter Hühn, John Pier, Wolf Schmid, Jörg Schönert

Volume 19 in this series

This handbook in English provides a systematic overview of the present state of international research in narratology. Detailed individual studies by internationally renowned narratologists elucidate 34 central terms. The articles present original research contributions and are all structured in a similar manner. Each contains a concise definition and a detailed explanation of the term in question. In a main section they present a critical account of the major research positions and their historical development and indicate directions for future research; they conclude with selected bibliographical references.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110217445
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018947-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021744-5
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Eventfulness in British Fiction

Book 2010

Eventfulness in British Fiction

Peter Hühn, Markus Kempf, Katrin Kroll, Jette K. Wulf

Volume 18 in this series

An event, defined as the decisive turn, the surprising point in the plot of a narrative, constitutes its tellability, the motivation for reading it. This book describes a framework for a narratological definition of eventfulness and its dependence on the historical, socio-cultural and literary context. A series of fifteen analyses of British novels and tales, from late medieval and early modern times to the late 20th century, demonstrates how this concept can be put into practice for a new, specifically contextual interpretation of the central relevance of these texts. The examples include Chaucer’s “Miller’s Tale”, Behn’s “Oroonoko”, Defoe’s “Moll Flanders”, Richardson’s “Pamela”, Fielding’s “Tom Jones”, Dickens’s “Great Expectations”, Hardy's “On the Western Circuit”, James’s “The Beast in the Jungle”, Joyce’s “Grace”, Conrad’s “Shadow-Line”, Woolf’s “Unwritten Novel”, Lawrence’s “Fanny and Annie”, Mansfield’s “At the Bay”, Fowles’s “Enigma” and Swift’s “Last Orders”. This selection is focused on the transitional period from 19th-century realism to 20th-century modernism because during these decades traditional concepts of what counts as an event were variously problematized; therefore, these texts provide a particularly interesting field for testing the analytical capacity of the term of eventfulness.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110213652
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021364-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021365-2
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Point of View, Perspective, and Focalization

Book 2009

Point of View, Perspective, and Focalization

Modeling Mediation in Narrative

Peter Hühn, Wolf Schmid, Jörg Schönert

Volume 17 in this series

Stories do not actually exist in the (fictional or factual) world but are constituted, structured and endowed with meaning through the process of mediation, i.e. they are represented and transmitted through systems of verbal, visual or audio-visual signs. The terms usually proposed to describe aspects of mediation, especially perspective, point of view, and focalization, have yet to bring clarity to this field, which is of central importance, not only for narratology but also for literary and media studies. One crucial problem about mediation concerns the dimensions of its modeling effect, particularly the precise status and constellation of the mediating agents, i.e. author, narrator or presenter and characters. The question is how are the structure and the meaning of the story conditioned by these different positions in relation to the mediated happenings perceived from outside and/or inside the storyworld? In this volume, fourteen articles by international scholars from seven different countries address these problems anew from various angles, reviewing the sub-categorization of mediation and re-specifying its dimensions both in literary texts and other media such as drama and theater, film, and computer games.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110218916
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021890-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021891-6
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Mythology and Folk Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Russische Proto-Narratologie

Book 2009

Russische Proto-Narratologie

Texte in kommentierten Übersetzungen

Wolf Schmid

Volume 16 in this series

This collected volume contains German translations with commentaries and annotations of 12 theoretical texts from the Russian pre-history of narratology. The texts, all of pre-formalistic, formalistic, or structuralist provenance or from sources close to formalism, are devoted to two key topics in Russian proto-narratology, the “sujet” and the work-immanent abstract author. The selection, translation, commentary and annotations were carried out by members of a sub-project within the Hamburg Narratology Research Group, which is funded by the German Research Foundation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110215977
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021290-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021597-7
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literature of other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Slavic Literature
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Textkohärenz und Narration

Book 2008

Textkohärenz und Narration

Untersuchungen russischer Texte des Realismus und der Moderne

Robert Hodel, Volkmar Lehmann

Volume 15 in this series

The present volume is concerned with the question of what distinguishes a prose text from the Age of Realism from one from the Modern Age. Starting from the present state of research in textual semantics and narratology, criteria are tested for characterising these two epochs, and new criteria are developed which allow this epochal change to be described more comprehensively within Russian prose writing. It is the intention to formalise the procedures deployed here to a large extent and, if possible, to quantify them using computers.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110210934
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020811-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021093-4
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literature of other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Slavic Literature
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Narrative Unreliability in the Twentieth-Century First-Person Novel

Book 2008

Narrative Unreliability in the Twentieth-Century First-Person Novel

Elke D'hoker, Gunther Martens

Volume 14 in this series

This volume deals with the occurrence and development of unreliable first-person narration in twentieth century Western literature. The different articles in this collection approach this topic both from the angle of literary theory and through a detailed reading of literary texts. By addressing questions concerning the functions, characteristics and types of unreliability, this collection contributes to the current theoretical debate about unreliable narration. At the same time, the collection highlights the different uses to which unreliability has been put in different contexts, poetical traditions and literary movements. It does so by tracing the unreliable first-person narrator in a variety of texts from Dutch, German, American, British, French, Italian, Polish, Danish and Argentinean literature. In this way, this volume significantly extends the traditional ‘canon’ of narrative unreliability. This collection combines essays from some of the foremost theoreticians of unreliability (James Phelan, Ansgar Nünning) with essays from experts in different national traditions. The result is a collection that approaches the ‘case’ of narrative unreliability from a new and more varied perspective.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110209389
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020630-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020938-9
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literature of other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Das narrative Urteil

Book 2008

Das narrative Urteil

Erzählerische Problemverhandlungen von Hiob bis Kant

Michael Richter

Volume 13 in this series

Drawing on Greimas' narrative semiotics and on cognitive science, Richter develops his theory of the "narrative judgement" as the core of the "narrative negotiation of problems". Narratives present contingent decisions, but can conceal their contingency in the name of an ideology. As Richter amply demonstrates, the narrative judgement allows the negotiation in narrative of theoretical problems which seem incapable of resolution in argument, e.g. the problem of Job in the Old Testament and the theodicy problem from Leibniz to Kant.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110206586
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020395-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020658-6
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Mythology and Folk Literature
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Theorizing Narrativity

Book 2008

Theorizing Narrativity

John Pier, José Angel Garcia Landa

Volume 12 in this series

Theorizing Narrativity is a collective work by an international array of leading specialists in narrative theory. It provides new perspectives on the nature of narrative, genre theory, narrative semiotics and communication theory. Most contributions center on the specificity of literary fiction, but each chapter investigates a different dimension of narrativity with many issues dealt with in innovative ways (including oral storytelling, the law, video games, causality, intertextuality and the theory of reading). There are chapters by Gerald Prince on narrativehood and narrativity, Meir Sternberg on the narrativity of the law-code, Werner Wolf on chance and Peter Hühn on eventfulness in fiction, Jukka Tyrkkö on kaleidoscope narratives, Marie-Laure Ryan on transfictionality and computer games, Ansgar Nünning and Roy Sommer as well as Monika Fludernik on the narrativity of drama, Beatriz Penas on (non)standard narrativities, David Rudrum on narrativity and performativity, Michael Toolan on textual guidance, John Pier on causality and retrospection, and José Ángel García Landa on retelling and represented narrations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110969801
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020244-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096980-1
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Semiotics
Subject:: Semiotics, other
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Lyrik und Narratologie

Book 2007

Lyrik und Narratologie

Text-Analysen zu deutschsprachigen Gedichten vom 16. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert

Jörg Schönert, Peter Hühn, Malte Stein

Volume 11 in this series

Lyric poetry is usually regarded as a genre in its own right, delineated from narrative and dramatic texts. This publication intends to use categories from narrative theory to develop the argument that poems also display basic characteristics seen as indicative of the narrative (in particular, the perspectivized presentation of sequentially ordered events). The results are firstly significant revisions of genre-theory, and secondly a considerable extension and precision in processes of textual analysis - including the use of scheme theory as used in cognitive psychology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110922738
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019321-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092273-8
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Stimme(n) im Text

Book 2006

Stimme(n) im Text

Narratologische Positionsbestimmungen

Andreas Blödorn, Daniela Langer, Michael Scheffel

Volume 10 in this series

The volume sounds out the methodological potential of the central narratological category of 'voice' in its relation to 'person' and specifies this category principally against the background of Genette and Bachtin. In addition to papers with a theoretical orientation, there are also case studies, these always being linked with more general methodological concerns. The main focus is on borderline cases for unequivocally determining the position of the speaker or speech in texts. The papers examine, for example, the position and function of the text itself as a literary 'voice', and whether polyphony can be described as a variety of 'autonomous voices' without recourse to the concept of 'person'. The authors draw up new concepts of 'voice' in narrative theory, discuss the phenomenon of 'multiple voices' in literary texts and examine the category of 'voice' for its relevance as an instrument of textual analysis. The volume investigates all aspects of the relationship between the narrator's speech and that of the narrative figures within the triad of author, narrator and figure, drawing in historical aspects and insights from the psychology of cognition and reception. In this it presents innovative fundamental research on central questions of modern narrative theory.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199956
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018571-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019995-6
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Mythology and Folk Literature
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Implied Author

Book 2006

The Implied Author

Concept and Controversy

Tom Kindt, Hans-Harald Müller

Volume 9 in this series

This book addresses itself to the concept of the implied author, which has been the cause of controversy in cultural studies for some fifty years. The opening chapters examine the introduction of the concept in Wayne C. Booth’s “Rhetoric of Fiction” and the discussion of the concept in narratology and in the theory and practice of interpretation. The final chapter develops proposals for clarifying or replacing the concept.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110201727
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018948-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020172-7
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Subject:: History of Literary Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Narratological Analysis of Lyric Poetry

Book 2005

The Narratological Analysis of Lyric Poetry

Studies in English Poetry from the 16th to the 20th Century

Peter Hühn, Jens Kiefer, Alastair Matthews

Volume 7 in this series

This study offers a fresh approach to the theory and practice of poetry criticism from a narratological perspective. Arguing that lyric poems share basic constituents of narration with prose fiction, namely temporal sequentiality of events and verbal mediation, the authors propose the transgeneric application of narratology to the poetic genre with the aim of utilizing the sophisticated framework of narratological categories for a more precise and complex modeling of the poetic text. On this basis, the study provides a new impetus to the neglected field of poetic theory as well as to methodology. The practical value of such an approach is then demonstrated by detailed model analyses of canonical English poems from all major periods between the 16th and the 20th centuries. The comparative discussion of these analyses draws general conclusions about the specifics of narrative structures in lyric poetry in contrast to prose fiction.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110897623
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018407-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089762-3
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Poetry
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Narratology beyond Literary Criticism

Book 2005

Narratology beyond Literary Criticism

Mediality, Disciplinarity

Jan Christoph Meister, Tom Kindt, Wilhelm Schernus

Volume 6 in this series

This anthology presents the results of the Second International Colloquium of the Narratology Research Group (Hamburg University). It engages in the exploration of approaches that broaden Narratology's realm. The contributions illustrate the transcendence of traditional models common to Narratology. They also reflect on the relevance of such a 'going beyond' as seen in more general terms: What interrelation can be observed between re-definition of object domain and re-definition of method? What potential interfaces with other methods and disciplines does the proposed innovation offer? Finally, what are the repercussions of the proposed innovation in terms of Narratology's self-definition? The innovative volume facilitates the inter-methodological debate between Narratology and other disciplines, enabling the conceptualization of a Narratology beyond traditional Literary Criticism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110201840
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018352-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020184-0
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Erzählte Geschichte

Book 2005

Erzählte Geschichte

Narrative Strukturen in der französischen "Annales"-Geschichtsschreibung

Axel Rüth

Volume 5 in this series

The study broadens the perspective of narratology to include the objects and methods of historiography, in particular those of the famous French Annales School (rejection of history as events etc). The question is one of the extent to which historiography itself 'creates' history in its narration and of whether, given the inherent narrative character of every historiography, any progress at all can be made in historical knowledge. Rüth not only develops the theoretical backgrounds and discourses of his enquiry, but also uses texts from the Annales School to undertake a detailed study of the narrative element in historiography.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110910469
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018369-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091046-9
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Dynamics of Narrative Form

Book 2005

The Dynamics of Narrative Form

Studies in Anglo-American Narratology

John Pier

Volume 4 in this series

By redefining established topics of narratology, research has become highly diversified. The contributions to this volume neither synthesize developments nor work from shared postulates, but represent a fresh look at ongoing issues. Some scrutinize focalisation in a linguistic framework or in a poststructuralist vein; others take on reliable and unreliable narration in a pronominal perspective or the "unaddressed" reader who upsets the tidy schemes of narrative communication. Also outlined are a possible worlds approach to narrative time, a systematic treatment of metanarrative and a transgeneric application of narratology to poetry. The sequential ordering of narratives as a way of controlling reader response is examined in one article and in another is seen to elicit intertextual configurations. Both divergent and complementary, the contributions seek to integrate into narratological categories and methods the dynamic processes of narrative itself.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110922646
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018314-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092264-6
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Figur und Person

Book 2004

Figur und Person

Beitrag zu einer historischen Narratologie

Fotis Jannidis

Volume 3 in this series

The study examines how figures are presented in narrative texts. Using modern theories from the cognitive sciences, the author examines the special status of figures as humanlike constructs. The basis is provided by a theory of narrative communication which attempts to account for cultural and historical change in figures and their representation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110201697
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017807-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020169-7
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Mythology and Folk Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Computing Action

Book 2003

Computing Action

A Narratological Approach

Jan Christoph Meister, Marie-Laure Ryan, Alastair Matthews

Volume 2 in this series

“Computing Action” takes a new approach to the phenomenon of narrated action in literary texts. It begins with a survey of philosophical approaches to the concept of action, ranging from analytical to transcendental and finally constructivist definitions. This leads to the formulation of a new model of action, in which the core definitions developed in traditional structuralist narratology and Greimassian semiotics are reconceptualised in the light of constructivist theories.
In the second part of the study, the combinatory model of action proposed is put into practice in the context of a computer-aided investigation of the action constructs logically implied by narrative texts. Two specialised literary computing tools were developed for the purposes of this investigation of textual data: EVENTPARSER, an interactive tool for parsing events in literary texts, and EPITEST, a tool for subjecting the mark-up files thus produced to a combinatory analysis of the episode and action constructs they contain.
The third part of the book presents a case study of Goethe's “Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten”. Here, the practical application of theory and methodology eventually leads to a new interpretation of Goethe's famous Novellenzyklus as a systematic experiment in the narrative construction of action - an experiment intended to demonstrate not only Goethe's aesthetic principles, but also, and more fundamentally, his epistemological convictions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110201796
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017628-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020179-6
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Literature of other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: What Is Narratology?

Book 2003

What Is Narratology?

Questions and Answers Regarding the Status of a Theory

Tom Kindt, Hans-Harald Müller

Volume 1 in this series

“What Is Narratology?” sees itself as contributing to the intensive international discussion and controversy on the structure and function of narrative theory. The 14 papers in the volume advance proposals for determining the object of narratology, modelling its concepts and characterising its status within cultural studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110202069
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017874-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020206-9
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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