Showing papers on "Narratology published in 1970"

Post-colonial governance through securitization?: A narratological analysis of a securitization controversy in contemporary Danish and Greenlandic uranium policy

Abstract: The complex constitutional relationship between Greenland and Denmark has had no clearer manifestation than the last decade’s juridical and political wranglings over the control for uranium. In the article, we argue that the quarrel between Nuuk and Copenhagen found in their diverging uranium policies can be seen as what we term a ’securitization controversy’. That is, a form of negotiating process which delicately postpones securitization proper due to the entangled role of the uranium issue in the independence debate. Through narrative analysis of contemporary Danish and Greenlandic government policy documents (2008-2016) we thus demonstrate how Greenlandic documents attempt to desecuritize risks pertinent to extraction of uranium and REE while Danish government papers seek to risikfy uranium in order to keep the issue open to future securitization. In the analysis, we further show how certain risks in the policy papers are connected and constitute a narrative conflict involving identity and sovereignty. We argue, that the controversy found at policy level in turn is the result of the underlying ‘sovereignty game’ in the constitutional relationship between the two countries. The article introduces a methodological framework for studying such securitization controversies drawing on risk analysis and narratology. We argue that in order to account for the entangled and narrative nature of the discursive movements in the policy texts, structural narratology can be a viable methodological alternative to the Copenhagen School’s preferred method of discourse analysis.

Du kan ikke tale om das beckwerk; du er allerede i das beckwerk

Abstract: YOU CAN’T TALK ABOUT DAS BECKWERK; YOU ARE ALREADY IN DAS BECKWERK | Subjected to a one-year ban on performances in the public spaces of Scandinavia, the former CEO of the Copenhagen-based enterprise Das Beckwerk held a lecture on 9th December 2011 solely for the ears of the rising star of fictionality and narratology Richard Walsh from the University of York. The lecture dealt not only with the disappearing boundaries between reality and fiction but also with how novel characters have become legal citizens, while the author is turned into fiction. Finally the former CEO dismisses the judgment in the famous trial “Thomas Skade-Rasmussen Strobech versus Gyldendal and Helge Bille Nielsen”. He calls it unjust and a neglect of the fictional character’s right to a personal name, story and picture.

Den narrative fiktionalitets pragmatik

Abstract: THE PRAGMATICS OF NARRATIVE FICTIONALITY | “The Pragmatics of Narrative Fictionality” is chapter 1 of Richard Walsh’ book The Rhetoric of Fictionality. Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction . Columbus: Ohio State University, 2007.

Author, Narrator, and Literary Character:A Study of Xenophon’s "Anabasis"

Abstract: Author, Narrator, and Literary Character:A Study of Xenophon’s Anabasis The article discusses Xenophon’s Anabasis. Its main aim is to present some new research perspectives for Classical Studies. It analyzes such aspects of Xenophon’s opus as author, implied author, narrator, narratee and narrative, as well as literary character and the human context. The article is a sort of introduction to narratological studies, concerning classical narrative texts, which has not so far been thoroughly tested for its inner structure.

Poesiens fiktionslabile ”jeg” - teoretiske overvejelser over det lyriske jegs fiktionsstatus

Abstract: THE FICTIVE-LABILE “I” OF POETRY | This article asks the question: what is the fictional status of the I-enunciation in a lyric poem? When people read a lyric poem in the first person, they tend to automatically assume that the poet speaks in her own voice. But is it okay to think of this as the “default setting” of lyric poetry? In this paper, two congenial essays are broached and both of them are used to enhance the other’s argument. The first essay is Susan Lanser’s “The ‘I’ of the Beholder: Equivocal Attachments and the Limits of Structuralist Narratology”. In this essay she deals with homodiegetic fiction, and she tries to conjecture under which circumstances readers are likely to attach an “I” in a piece of literature to the “I” of the empirical author. She proposes five criteria which make the reader prone to infer attachment, and as she finds them almost always to be present in lyric poetry, she concludes that it is primed for authorial attachment. This article, however, finds it problematic that she presupposes that lyric poetry is a constant genre. To remedy this, Ralph Rader’s essay “The Dramatic Monologue and Related Lyric Forms” is introduced. It distinguishes between four types of lyric poems based on the affinity or distance between the poet and the speaker in the poem. Lanser’s criteria are applied to each type of lyric poem. Rader, however, needs to incorporate reflections on how narrativity affects this poet-speaker relationship. Finally, the article presents a model which visualises and fuses the two theories, concluding that the “I” in lyric poetry is fictive-labile.