How to Do Things With Words

In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature. This final volume, a comprehensive reexamination and synthesis of the ideas developed in volumes 1 and 2, stands as Ricoeur's most complete and satisfying presentation of his own philosophy.

Time and Narrative

After virtue, a study in moral theory

Discourse in the Novel

Representing Reality: Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction

Magic, Science, Technology and Literature

Abstract:This introduction to the forum \"Narrating Selves from the Bible to Social Media\" contextualizes the theme by taking recourse to philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre's reflections on self-narration. MacIntyre poses the question about personal continuity in spite of the necessary change. With his concept of \"character,\" he makes explicit the connection to literature, thus emphasizing a degree of creativity when people tell their life stories. The contributions to the forum explore this aspect by also highlighting the role of the everyday and the media through which selves are portrayed.

Narrating Selves from the Bible to Social Media: Introduction to the Forum

Performing Selves and Audience Design : Interview Narratives on the Internet

This article analyses the German radio play adaptation of Philip Roth's novel Indignation (Emporung, 2010) from an audionarratological perspective and shows how both the book and the radio play offer potential for multisensory experiences on the part of readers and radio audiences. The article furthermore explores how the two media differ in their semiotic and sensory affordances and possibilities. It is argued that aural signs and signals predetermine certain aspects of the storyworld in the radio play: for example, characters' and the narrator's voices, soundscapes, but also ambient sound and music. Due to its focus on the aural channel, radio drama calls on audiences' imagination in distinct ways, while also complicating narratological concepts. The ‘transcriptivity’ from written to spoken text that is inherent in the transposition of novel into radio play accounts for the fact that the radio play also adds new multisensory and interpretive dimensions to its pre-text. It therefore has to be considered ...

Jarmila Mildorf

Papers

Magic, Science, Technology and Literature

Narrating Selves from the Bible to Social Media: Introduction to the Forum

Performing Selves and Audience Design : Interview Narratives on the Internet

Multisensory Imaginings: An Audionarratological Analysis of Philip Roth's Novel Indignation and its German Radio Play Adaptation Empörung

“Unnatural” narratives?: The case of second-person narration