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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Handbook of Narratology
Preface
Author
1 Definition
2 Explication
2.1 Communicative Instances in Narrative Representations
2.2 Authorship and Reception of the Work
2.3 Author as a Social Role
2.3.1 Collaborative as well as Anonymous, Pseudonymous and Fictitious Authorship
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Antiquity
3.2 Middle Ages
3.3 Early Modern Period
3.4 Early 18th Century until the Mid-20th Century
3.5 Since the Mid-20th Century
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Autobiography
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History
3.1 Autobiography in Historical Perspective
3.2 Critical Paradigms in Historical Perspective
4 Related Terms
5 Topics for Further Investigation
6 Bibliography
6.1 Primary Sources
6.2 Works Cited
6.3 Further Reading
Character
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 People or Words
3.2 Character Knowledge
3.3 Character and Action
3.4 Referring to Characters
3.5 Characterization
3.6 Character and Meaning
3.7 Relation of the Reader to the Character
3.8 Categories of Character
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Cognitive Narratology
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 A Partial Genealogy of the Term “Cognitive Narratology”
3.2 Focal Areas for Research
3.2.1 Narrative Ways of Worldmaking
3.2.2 Characters and Categorization Processes
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Coherence
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Coherence in Textlinguistic Studies
3.2 Degrees of Coherence
3.3 Coherence in Psychological Studies
3.4 Creating a Storyworld
3.5 The Pragmatics of Coherence: Cooperativeness and Relevance
3.6 Narrativity, Tellability, and Coherence
3.7 Challenges to Coherence
3.8 Perceived Coherence
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Computational Narratology
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Influences from Humanities Narratology
3.2 Influences from Linguistics
3.3 Computational Elaborations of Narratological Concepts
4 Trends in the Field
5 Topics for Further Investigation
6 Bibliography
6.1 Works Cited
6.2 Further Reading
6.3 Web Resources
Conversational Narration – Oral Narration
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis
3.2 Oral Poetry and Narratology
3.3 Relevance of Conversational Narrative for Narratology
4 Topics for Further Research
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Corporate Storytelling
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 First Wave of Theories of Corporate Communication:Controlling Communication
3.2 Second Wave of Corporate Communication:The Contradictional Corpus
3.3 Key Concepts in Corporate Communication: Culture and Brand
3.4 Mind and Market
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Diachronic Narratology(The Example of Ancient Greek Narrative)
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 From Synchronic to Diachronic Narratology
3.2 A History of Ancient Greek Narrative as anExample of Diachronic Narratology
3.2.1 Defining Ancient Greek Narrative
3.2.2 Form and Function of Narrative Devices
3.2.3 Genres and Development
3.2.4 Narratology and (Oral) Poetry
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Dialogism
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Relevance for Narratology
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Diegesis – Mimesis
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Terms
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Dreaming and Narration
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept
3.1 Dreams across Cultures
3.2 Dreams in Literature, Art and Film
3.3 Dream Interpretation
3.4 Psychoanalysis
3.5 Neurobiology
3.6 Cognitive Approaches
3.7 Significance for Narratology
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Experientiality
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Discussion
3.1 Experientiality and Narrativity
3.2 Experientiality and Mimesis
3.3 Experientiality in an Interdisciplinary Context
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Event and Eventfulness
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 The Concept of Event in the Poetics of the Tragedy and the Novella
3.2 The Concept of Event in the Context of Tellabilityand the “Point of the Narrative”
3.3 The Concept of Event in Historiographical Theory
3.4 Concepts of Eventfulness in Cultural and Social Anthropology
3.5 Discussion of the Concept of Event in Literary Theory
3.5.1 Event I
3.5.2 Event II
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Fictional vs. Factual Narration
1 Definition
2 Explication
2.1 The Validity of the Fact/Fiction Opposition
2.2 Fact and Fiction, Narrative and Non-narrative
2.3 Types of Fiction
2.4 Mimesis and the Fact/Fiction Distinction
3 History of the Concepts and their Study
3.1 The Semantic Definition of the Fact/Fiction Difference
3.2 Syntactic Definitions
3.3 The Pragmatic Status of Narrative Fiction:Imagination and Playful Pretense
3.4 Simulation, Immersion and the Fact/Fiction Divide
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Focalization
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Gender and Narrative
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 From Universal Laws to Gender Consciousness
3.2 Feminist Challenges to Narratology “Proper”
3.3 The Post-classical Turn: The Emergence of Feminist Narratologies
3.4 Re-Mapping: Toward an Intersectional Approach
3.5 Queer(ing) Narratology
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Heteroglossia
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Historiographic Narration
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept
3.1 From Antiquity to the 19th Century:Rhetoric and Academic Scholarship
3.2 Deep-structure Narrativity of Historiography andHistorical Thought
3.3 Interpreting History through Emplotment and Multi-layering
3.4 Historiographic vs. Literary-fictional Narration
3.5 The Historicity of the Storyformedness of History
3.6 History as a Pattern of Thinking: Cognitivist Approaches
4 Topics of Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Identity and Narration
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Self and Narration
3.2 Identity and Narration: Biography and Life-Writing
3.3 Problems of Linking Life, Narration, and Identity
3.4 Narration as Identity Formation in Narrative Practice
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Ideology and Narrative Fiction
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Ideology in General
3.2 Ideology in Narrative
3.2.1 The Marxist Tradition
3.2.2 Psychological Approaches
3.2.3 Discursive Approaches
3.2.4 Combined Approaches
3.3 Ideology and Narratology
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Illusion (Aesthetic)
1 Definition
2 Explication
2.1 The Nature of Aesthetic Illusion
2.2 Factors Contributing to Aesthetic Illusion
2.3 Typical Characteristics of Illusionist Representations and thePrinciples of Illusion-making: The Case of Narrative Fiction
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 History of the Term
3.2 History of the Concept
3.3 Influential Positions
3.4 Relevance for Narratology
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Implied Author
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Russian Formalism, Czech and Polish Structuralism
3.2 Approaches in the West
3.3 The Implied Author Debate
3.4 Towards an Impartial Definition
3.5 Relevance to Narratology
4 Topics for Further Research
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Implied Reader
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 Aspects of the Concept and History of its Study
3.1 Implied Reader as Presumed Addressee and Ideal Recipient
3.2 Implied Reader as Presumed Addressee vs. Fictive Addressee
3.3 Russian, Polish, and Czech Formalism and Structuralism
3.4 Approaches in the West
4 Topics for Further Research
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Mediacy and Narrative Mediation
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Mediacy from Plato to Stanzel
3.2 Mediacy in Genette and Chatman
3.3 Newer Developments
3.4 Mediacy and Narrative Media
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Metalepsis
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 The Rhetorical Background
3.2 Principal Approaches
3.2.1 Rhetorical vs. Ontological Metalepsis
3.2.2 Transmedial Dimensions
3.2.3 Metalepsis as Paradox
3.3 Effects
3.4 Related Concept: Mise en abyme
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Metanarration and Metafiction
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Multiperspectivity
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 Forms of Multiperspectivity and the Study of the Concept
3.1 Forms of Multiperspective Narration
3.1.1 The Novel
3.1.2 Poetry, Drama, and Film
3.2 Theoretical Approaches to Multiperspectivity
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Narratee
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 Aspects of the Concept and History of its Study
3.1 Fictive Addressee and Fictive Recipient
3.2 Appeal and Orientation as Indexical Signs of the Narratee
3.3 History of the Concept and its Study
4 Topics for Further Research
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Narration and Narrative in Legal Discourse
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 Aspects of the Phenomena
3.1 Subtypes of Research on Narration and Narrativein Legal Discourse
3.1.1 Legal Narration as a Contestation of Narratives
3.1.2 Law and Literature, Law as Rhetoric
3.1.3 Legal Narrative and the Recognition of Minoritarian Experience
3.1.4 Legal Narrative as Narration, and Narrative Issuesin Legal Interpretation
3.2 Legal Narrative as Cultural Narrative
4 Relevance for Narratology
5 Topics for Further Investigation
6 Bibliography
6.1 Works Cited
6.2 Further Reading
Narration in Film
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 Development of Film Narration and History of the Study of Film Narration
3.1 Development of Film Narration
3.1.1 The Plurimedial Nature of Cinema
3.1.2 Technical Strategies of Storytelling
3.1.3 Narrative Modes in the History of Cinema
3.1.4 Editing as a Narrative Device
3.1.5 Time and Space in Cinema
3.1.6 Narrative Functions of Sound
3.2 The Narrating Agency in Cinema
3.2.1 Film as Sign System
3.2.2 The Act of Audiovisual Narration
3.2.3 Film Narration—Film Narrator
3.2.4 Unreliability of Film Narration
3.3 Point of View
3.3.1 Focalization and Ocularization
3.4 The Interplay between Audiovisual and Verbal Narration
3.5 Complex Forms of Narration in Contemporary Feature Films
3.6 Toward a Historical Film Narratology
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Narration in Medicine
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 Dimensions of Narration in Medicine
3.1 Narration and the Medical Case History
3.1.1 Perspective, Voice, and the Medical Interview
3.1.2 Story and Discourse
3.1.3 Sequence and Causality
3.1.4 Schemata and Scripts
3.2 Illness Narratives
3.3 Narrative as a Clinical and Therapeutic Mode
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Narration in Poetry and Drama
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Dimensions of the Transgeneric Approach to Poetry
3.2 Dimensions of the Transgeneric Approach to Drama
4 Topics for Further Investigation
4.1 Topics for Further Investigation: Poetry
4.2 Topics for Further Investigation: Drama
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited: Poetry
5.2 Further Reading: Poetry
5.3 Works Cited: Drama
5.4 Further Reading: Drama
Narration in Religious Discourse (The Example of Christianity)
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of Narration in Christianity and its Study
3.1 Narratives in Biblical and Related Writings and their Study
3.1.1 Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
3.1.2 New Testament
3.1.3 Other Early Jewish and Early Christian Writings
3.2 Narratives and their Study in Systematic Theology
3.3 Narratives and their Study in Practical Theology
4 Topics for Further Research
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Narration in Various Disciplines
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 Concepts and their History
3.1 Literary Studies
3.2 The Arts
3.3 The Historical Sciences
3.4 Psychology
3.5 Psychoanalysis
3.6 Philosophy
3.7 Ethics
3.8 Sociology
3.8 Theology
3.10 Pedagogy
3.11 Law Studies
3.12 Medicine
3.13 Philosophy of Science
4 Topics for Further Research
4.1 Natural Sciences
4.2 Systems Theory
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
Narration in Various Media
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Historical Background
3.2 The Nature of Media
3.3 The Primacy of Language as Narrative Medium
3.4 Narrating without Language
3.4.1 Pictorial Narrative
3.4.2 Narrating through Gestures
3.4.3 Musical Narratives
3.5 Combining Sensory and Semantic Dimensions intoPlurimedial Texts
4 Recent Trends
5 Topics for Further Investigation
6 Bibliography
6.1 Works Cited
6.2 Further Reading
Handbook of Narratology
Narrative Acquisition in Educational Research and Didactics
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 Dimensions of the Concept and History of its Study
3.1 The Function of Narration in Child Development
3.2 The Acquisition of Narrative
3.2.1 Overview of Research
3.2.2 Factual and Fictional Narration
3.2.3 Oral and Written Narration
3.3 Teaching
3.3.1 Experientiality und Tellability
3.3.2 Story Repertoires
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Narrative Constitution
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Russian Formalism and the Opposition between Fabula and Sujet
3.2 Story and Plot in the Work of E. M. Forster and other English-speaking Scholars of the 1920s to the 1940s
3.3 Histoire and Discours in French Structuralism and Classical Narratology
3.4 Three- and Four-Tier Models
3.5 Narrative Constitution in Historiographical and Philosophical Theory
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
Narrative Empathy
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Narrative Ethics
1 Definition
2 Explication
2.1 Characteristic Questions and Positions
2.2 Literary Ethics and Narrative Ethics
2.3 Narrative Ethics in Relation to Politics and Aesthetics
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Literary Ethics in Antiquity
3.2 Literary Ethics before “The Theory Revolution” of the 1970s
3.3 The Theory Revolution as Preparation for the Ethical Turn
3.4 The Ethical Turn: Poststructuralist and Humanist Ethics
3.5 Ethics and the Narrative Identity Thesis
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Narrative Levels
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Embedding and Framing
3.1.1 Narrator’s Status
3.2 Distribution of Narrative Levels
3.2.1 Meta-
3.2.2 Vertical / Horizontal
3.2.3 Illocutionary / Ontological
3.3 Relations between Levels
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Narrative Strategies
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 Aspects of the Phenomenon and History of its Study
3.1 Narrative Modalities
3.2 Narrative World Pictures
3.3 Narrative Intrigue
3.4 The Unity of a Narrative Strategy
3.5 History of Study of the Phenomenon
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Narratives in Rhetorical Discourse
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Term
3.1 Statements of Facts: Classical Rhetoric
3.2 The Narrative Paradigm: Fisher
3.3 Narratives as Lenses: Lucaites and Condit
3.4 Recent Developments
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.1 Further Reading
Narrativity
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Prehistory of Narrativity
3.2 Narrativity as Inherent or Extensional
3.2.1 Immanence
3.2.2 Emplotment
3.2.3 A Logic of Narrativity
3.3 As Scalar or Intensional
3.3.1 Sequentiality
3.3.2 Eventfulness
3.3.3 Tellability
3.3.4 Narrative Competence and Experientiality
3.3.5 Fictionality
3.4 As Variable according to Narrative Type, Genre, or Mode
3.5 As a Mode among Modes
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Narrativity of Computer Games
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History and Aspects of the Study of Narrativity in Computer Games
3.1 Pre-history: Hypertext Studies
3.2 The Ludology vs. Narratology Debate
3.3 Degrees of Narrativity
3.4 Storystructures in the (Action)Adventure Game
3.5 Separation of Narration and Play
3.6 Spatial Narration
3.7 Aspects of the Fictional Game World
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Narratology
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Coining of the Term “Narratology”
3.2 Precursors
3.2.1 Plato and Aristotle: Representational Modes and the Functional Relation between Character and Action
3.2.2 The Normative Paradigm: 17th to Early 20th-century Theories of the Novel
3.2.3 Re-introducing the Formal Paradigm: Spielhagen and Friedemann
3.2.4 From Catalogue to Formula: Aarne-Thompson vs. Propp
3.2.5 Russian Formalism
3.2.6 Pre-structuralist Theories of Narrative: Perspective, Time, Logic and Rhetoric
3.2.6.1 Perspective
3.2.6.2 Time
3.2.6.3 Logic and Rhetoric
3.3 French Structuralism: 1966–1980
3.4 Poststructuralist Narratology: 1980–1990
3.5 Post-classical Narratology and “New” Narratologies: 1990 to Present
3.6 Outlook
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Web Resources
Narrator
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Identifying the Narrator: Constitutive Conditions
3.1.1 “Unnatural Voices” in Postmodern Narratives
3.2 Individuating the Narrator
3.2.1 Types of Utterances
3.2.2 Situational Indicators
3.2.3 Narration-oriented Utterances
3.3 Major Aspects of a Narrator’s Image
3.3.1 Knowledge
3.3.2 Reliability
3.3.3 Relation to the Narrative Act
3.3.4 Articulateness
3.3.5 Attitude to the Narrated
3.3.6 Projected Teller Role
3.4 Plurivocal and Multi-level Narration
3.5 Narrators and Characters
3.6 Alternative Models
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Non-temporal Linking in Narration
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 Aspects of the Phenomenon and History of its Study
3.1 Perception of Equivalence in Narrative
3.2 Equivalence in Poetic and Classical Narrative Prose
3.3 Functions of Equivalence in Narrative
3.3.1 Rhetorical Function
3.3.2 Shaping Archisituations
3.3.3 Shaping Categorical Frames
3.3.4 Marking Eventfulness
3.3.5 Forming Gestalten
3.4 History of the Study
3.4.1 Russian Formalism and its Ambiance
3.4.2 Western Research
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Performativity
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 Concepts and their Study
3.1 Performativity I: Corporeal Presentation of Action
3.2 Performativity II: Non-corporeal Presentation of Action
3.2.1 Performativity II.i: Histoire or Story
3.2.2 Performativity II.ii: Narrator and Act of Narration
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Perspective – Point of View
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 From James to Stanzel: Pre-structuralist Typologies
3.2 Genette and his Critics
3.3 Parameters, Perspective Structure and the Foregrounding of Perspective
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Plot
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Plot in Western Poetics and Criticism
3.2 Plot as Global Structure
3.3 Plot as Progressive Structuration
3.4 Plot as Authorial Design
3.5 Plot beyond Fictional Narrative
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Poetic or Ornamental Prose
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Phenomenon and of its Study
3.1 Manifestations in Various Literatures
3.2 Ornamentalism and Mythical Thought
3.3 Ornamentalizing Prose or Ornamental Narrative
3.4 History of the Concept and its Study
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Possible Worlds
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Pioneering Scholars
3.1.1 David Lewis
3.1.2 Thomas Pavel
3.1.3 Lubomír Doležel
3.1.4 Umberto Eco
3.2 Areas of Application
3.2.1 Narrative Semantics
3.2.2 Poetics of Plot
3.2.3 Theory of Fictional Characters
3.2.4 Transfictionality
3.2.5 Text Typology
3.2.6 Poetics of Postmodernism
3.2.7 Digital Culture
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Reader
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Precursors
3.2 The Blossoming of Reader-oriented Criticism
3.3 The Implied Reader
3.4 The Model Reader
3.5 The Voice of Reading
3.6 The Narratee
3.7 Other Audiences
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Schemata
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Sequentiality
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Narrative Uses of Sequence
3.2 Sequentiality in Narratology I: Theorizing Structural Sequence
3.3 Sequentiality in Narratology II: Theory of Reading
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Simultaneity in Narrative
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Studies of Simultaneity
3.2 Narrating Simultaneous Events
3.3 Simultaneity of Acts of Narration
3.4 Concurrence of Narration and the Narrated
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Primary Sources
5.2 Works Cited
Skaz
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 Aspects of the Phenomenon and History of its Study
3.1 Features of Characterizing Skaz
3.2 Ornamental Skaz
3.3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.4 Relevance to Narratology
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Space
1 Definition
2 Explication
2.1 Narrative Space
2.2 The Spatial Extension of the Text
2.3 The Space that Serves as Context and Container for the Text
2.4 The Spatial Form of the Text
3 History of Approaches to Narrative Space
3.1 Spatial Imagery
3.2 The Textualization of Space
3.3 The Thematization of Space
4 Recent Trends
5 Topics for Further Investigation
6 Bibliography
6.1 Works Cited
6.2 Further Reading
Speech Representation
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Genealogy
3.2 Mimesis
3.3 Voices
3.4 Minds
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Story Generator Algorithms
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Term / the Concept
3.1 Generating Systems
3.2 Algorithm Types
3.3 Interactive and other Storytelling Applications
4 Relevance for Narratology
5 Topics for Further Investigation
6 Bibliography
6.1 Works Cited
6.2 Further Reading
Tellability
1 Definition
2 Explication
2.1 Relation to Narrativity
2.2 Interest of the Story
2.3 Discourse Structures of Tellability
2.4 Contextual Parameters of Tellability
3 History of the Concept and its Study
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Telling vs. Showing
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 Aspects and History of the Concept
4 Related Terms
5 Topics for Further Investigation
6 Bibliography
6.1 Works Cited
6.2 Further Reading
Text Types
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept
3.1 Predecessors and Related Concepts
3.2 Narratological Conceptions
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Time
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 Dimensions of the Concept and History of its Study
3.1 Time in the Context of Narrative Representation:Story, Discourse, and Narrating
3.1.1 ‘Story Time’: Temporal Order in the Narrated World
3.1.2 ‘Discourse Time’ and its Relation to ‘Story Time,’‘Order,’ ‘Duration,’ ‘Frequency’
3.1.3 ‘Narrating Time’: The Narrative Voice’s Distance
3.2 The Study of Time in Narrative Theory: A Historical Perspective
3.2.1 Formalist and Morphological Approaches
3.2.2 Classical Structuralist Approaches
3.2.3 Postclassical Approaches
3.2.3.1 Ricœur’s Narratological Hermeneutics
3.2.3.2 Cognitivist Approaches
3.2.3.3 Possible Worlds Theory
3.2.3.4 Computer-based Research Approaches
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
5.2.1 Medial Perspectives
5.2.2 Historical Perspectives
Unnatural Narrative
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 The History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 Postmodernist Unnaturalness and its Precursors
3.2 Theoretical Conceptualizations of Unnaturalness
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Unreliability
1 Definition
2 Explication
3 History of the Concept and its Study
3.1 The Rhetorical Approach to Unreliability
3.1.1 Basic Understanding of the Concept
3.1.2 Features and Causes of Unreliability
3.1.3 Estranging vs. Bonding Unreliability
3.2 The Constructivist/Cognitivist Approach andits Relation to the Rhetorical
3.2.1 Yacobi’s Integrating Mechanisms
3.2.2 Incompatible Yardsticks
3.2.3 Nünning’s Shifting Position
3.2.4 Cognitive Investigation with the Rhetorical Yardstick
3.3 Unreliability in Film and Autobiography
4 Topics for Further Investigation
5 Bibliography
5.1 Works Cited
5.2 Further Reading
Index
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