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Narratology

About: Narratology is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2833 publications have been published within this topic receiving 50998 citations. The topic is also known as: narrative theory.


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TL;DR: The authors places the rise of narrative theory in the contexts of professionalism, decolonization, and the nineteenth-century novel, and argues that these narratives function as a rhetoric of professional legitimation, leading outward from some account of "the'storiness' of the story" to a sense of vocation anchored in the concerns of an extra professional public.
Abstract: Literary critics mistrust periodization, that basic act of literary history, because they are suspicious of narrative. Where does this suspicion come from? And why has it arisen, paradoxically, together with the growing authority of the concept of narrative itself? This essay places the rise of narrative theory in the contexts of professionalism, decolonization, and the nineteenth-century novel. Gerard Genette’s account of the triumph of “discourse” over “story” parallels the upward mobility of many nineteenth-century novelistic protagonists. Even denying that narrative theory can be narrativized, as Jonathan Culler does, has similarities to the vocational crisis in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda. Each of these narratives functions as a rhetoric of professional legitimation, leading outward from some account of “the ‘storiness’ of the story”-the role, for example, of death for Walter Benjamin and Frank Kermode-to a sense of vocation anchored in the concerns of an extraprofessional public.

12 citations

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Tony Ward1
TL;DR: The Youngs and Canter paper as mentioned in this paper made an important contribution to the application of narrative theory to the forensic and correctional areas although there are some areas of weakness, such as definitional vagueness, lack of clarity concerning the nature of the self and its relationship to narrative roles, and methodological problems involving reliability and validity.
Abstract: Purpose. In this commentary, I will take a closer look at Youngs and Canter's (2011) paper on narrative roles in offending and examine the ideas underpinning their study and its methodology. Methods. I briefly overview some important theoretical ideas within the area of narrative research and highlight a number of unresolved and crucial issues. I then summarize the Youngs and Canter paper, concentrating on explicating its findings and identifying the major assumptions underpinning the study. Finally, I critically examine the paper in light of narrative research and theory. Result. There are three classes of problems evident in the paper, which map onto issues evident within the broader field of narrative theory and research. These problems are definitional vagueness, lack of clarity concerning the nature of the self and its relationship to narrative roles, and methodological problems involving reliability and validity. Conclusion. The Youngs and Canter paper makes an important contribution to the application of narrative theory to the forensic and correctional areas although there are some areas of weakness.

12 citations

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TL;DR: Des rapports entre la narratologie et la litterature for enfants : la question du public and les modifications eventuelles a apporter a la theorie as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Des rapports entre la narratologie et la litterature pour enfants : la question du public et les modifications eventuelles a apporter a la theorie

12 citations

01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: McIlveen et al. as discussed by the authors developed and tested a new constructivist, narrative career assessment and counselling procedure: My Career Chapter-A Dialogical Autobiography (My Career Chapter).
Abstract: The constructivist narrative approach to career development has matured considerably in recent decades, and is now a legitimate alternative to traditional schools of thought and practice (McIlveen & Patton, 2007). Australian scholars and practitioners have certainly made a significant contribution to the advancement of narrative theory and practice (e.g., McMahon, 2006, 2007). Notwithstanding the vigour within the field, there remains scope to improve the applied research basis of narrative career assessment and counselling (McIlveen & Patton), particularly in relation to how narrative procedures have been developed and tested in the field: to demonstrate not only that they are useful and effective, but how they work in terms of process and users’ experiences. This paper summarises a research project which investigated the development and testing of a new constructivist, narrative career assessment and counselling procedure: My Career Chapter—A Dialogical Autobiography (McIlveen, 2006).

12 citations

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23 Feb 2009
TL;DR: The role of narratives and stories in the health, healing, coping, and dying processes has been examined in this article, where the authors provide an overview of how this approach has come to be applied within the area of healthcommunication.
Abstract: The area of study known as health communication has traditionally been a very empirical, social scientific field of research. In the last fifteen years, however, researchers have begun expanding the horizons of health communication by employing and legitimizing alternative approaches to the understanding of communicative processes as they relate to health and illness and to the delivery of health care. Notable amongst those approaches is an application of narrative theory and an examination of the role of narratives and stories in the health, healing, coping, and dying processes. This chapter will provide an overview of how this approach has come to be applied within the area of health communication. It will begin with a conceptualization of narrative and the process of narration. The overarching social functions of narration will be discussed, followed by an exploration of varying perspectives on narrative and narration. The focus will then move to a more specific application of the concepts of narrative and narration to health, healing, illness, and coping. Discussion will focus on narration as it functions to facilitate understanding of patients and health conditions, on narration in the self-identify process and how that relates to coping and healing, the broader roles of narration in coping and healing (beyond identity concerns), narration as it helps us understand the nature of health and illness, narration as it impacts healing, and narration as it helps tell us how to live. Particularly interesting and insightful examples of the application of narrative theory and the examination of health/illness/coping narratives will be highlighted.

12 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202385
2022210
202188
2020103
2019136
2018197