Narrativity and Sound in German Radio Play Adaptations of Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy

Abstract: 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 ...

Abstract: This article analyses silence at the interface between print and audio media by reading and listening to Heinrich Boll's short story ‘Murke's Collected Silences’ (‘Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweig...

Abstract: This book is a standard work for modern narrative theory. It is a translation and expansion of the Russian work "Narratologija" (Moscow 2003) and presents a comprehensive foundation for narratology. The author explains and discusses in detail problems of communication structure and instances, narrative perspective, the relationship between narrator's text and person's text, and the narrativity of literary texts and the texts as events. The focus is formed by the constitutive structures of fictional narrative texts. The book postulates a theory of narration and analyses central narratological categories such as fiction, mimesis, author, reader, narrator, narrative perspective, text, story, narrative time etc. against the background of the history of narrative research. The result is a fundamental definition of the constitutive characteristics of narrative texts which provides a terminological and theoretical system of reference for future research in narrative theory. A detailed bibliography and glossary of narratological terms make this book a compendium of narrative theory which is of relevance for scholars and students of all literary disciplines. In addition, the book develops a new methodological basis for future researchers.

Abstract: 'It was a wrong number that started it ...' Chosen as one of the '100 Most Important Comics of the Century', Faber is proud to publish the graphic novel City of Glass for the first time in the UK. As Art Spiegelman explains in his new introduction, David Mazzucchelli and Paul Karasik 'created a strange doppelganger of the original book' and 'a breakthrough work.' Paul Auster's Edgar Award-nominated masterwork has been astonishingly transformed into a new visual language.

Abstract: Introduction: Paul Auster and the Postmodern American Novel Paul Auster, or The Heir Intestate Paul Auster's Pseudonymous World In the Realm of the Naked Eye: The Poetry of Paul Auster "The Hunger Must Be Preserved at All Cost": A Reading of The Invention of Solitude The Detective and the Author: City of Glass Auster's Sublime Closure: The Locked Room "Looking for Signs in the Air": Urban Space and the Postmodern in In the Country of Last Things Inside Moon Palace The Music of Chance: Aleatorical (Dis)harmonies Within "The City of the World" Leviathan: Post Hoc Harmonies A Look Back from the Horizon Being Paul Auster's Ghost Paul Auster: A Selected Bibliography Contributors Index