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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: For instance, this article found that despite the wealth of knowledge accumulated on this narrative type, a central aspect has remained disregarded, despite the fact that life stories have been the focus of narrative theory and research in psychology for decades.
Abstract: Life stories have been the focus of narrative theory and research in psychology for decades. Despite the wealth of knowledge accumulated on this narrative type, a central aspect has remained disreg...
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01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors of media texts provide rhetorical cues to audiences that allow them to reassert their power in the form of creative authority vis-à-vis consumers in a participatory media context.
Abstract: This dissertation project provides a methodological contribution to the field of critical rhetoric by positioning narrative theory as a powerful yet underutilized tool for examining the power dynamic between producer and consumer in a participatory media context. Drawing on theories of author and audience from rhetorical narratology, this study shows how producers of media texts provide rhetorical cues to audiences that allow them to reassert their power in the form of creative authority vis-à-vis consumers. The genre of professional wrestling serves as an ideal text for examining such power dynamics, as WWE has adapted to changing fan participatory behaviors throughout its sixty-year history. Focusing on pivotal moments in which WWE altered its narrative address to its audience in order to reassert its control over the production process, this study demonstrates the utility of narrative theory for understanding how creative authority shows power at work in media texts. Further, this study situates rhetorical narratology in conversation with theories of rhetorical persona, scholarship on subcultures, and the discursive construction of the “people.” In so doing, I show how a nuanced understanding of author and audience augments critical rhetorical scholarship’s focus on power. Finally, by applying narrative theory as a method for both close textual analysis of single texts as well as a tool for piecing together a critical text from narrative fragments, I also address questions of the role of the text in rhetorical criticism and the role of authorship in an era when audiences exert influence on media texts as they are produced. INDEX WORDS: Narrative theory, Critical rhetoric, Creative authority, Professional wrestling, Author, Audience, Participatory fan culture NARRATIVE CHANGE IN PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING: AUDIENCE ADDRESS AND CREATIVE AUTHORITY IN THE ERA OF SMART FANS
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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: Coulter and Smith as discussed by the authors focused on the role of narrative in narrative research by drawing on narratology and the practices of writers to describe and illustrate with pieces of text some literary prac tices useful for crafting results into narratives.
Abstract: ur initial article in this issue of Educational Researcher (Coulter & Smith, 2009) has a narrative of its own? one that stretches over more than 3 years and includes responses from scores of readers, editors, critics, and champions. Throughout this history, we clung tight to a singular purpose: to describe and illustrate with pieces of text some literary prac tices useful for crafting results into narratives. The readership we wanted to reach was education researchers in general, many of whom are unfamiliar with the rich literature on narrative research and literary practices. In this literature there is much about theory of narrative and little about the simple definition of narrative or its aspects. We wanted to locate the "narrative" in narrative research by drawing on narratology and the practices of writers.
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TL;DR: The authors apply the extended mind theory to the problem of literary intentions by putting the key principles of the theory in relation to the act of narrative world-making, and suggest that EMT entails a reconsideration of the concept of authorial intentions in that it provides a distributed account of agency during the writing activity.
Abstract: In recent years, cognitive science has progressively entered the epoch of “4E” cognition,” in which the mind is considered as embedded, enacted, embodied and extended. However, among these second-generation perspectives, the extended mind theory (Clark and Chalmers) seems to have lagged behind in the narratological discourse. According to this view, the human mind extends into the world when coupled with external cognitive tools like computers or material symbols such as language. This article seeks to apply the extended mind theory to the problem of literary intentions by putting the key principles of the theory in relation to the act of narrative worldmaking. In so doing, I suggest that EMT entails a reconsideration of the concept of authorial intentions in that it provides a distributed account of agency during the writing activity. In the last part of the essay I elaborate on the further implications of this reappraisal for literary interpretation.
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01 Jan 1993
TL;DR: In this article, Isenberg analyzes Turgenev's "First Love", Dostoevsky's "gentle Creature", Tolstoy's "Kreutzer Sonata", and works by Chekhov, Kharms, and Makanin to provide new insight into the frame narrative of passion.
Abstract: Isenberg discusses frame narrative and its relation to genre in one set of Russian short classics on the theme of erotic renunciation. Drawing on rich critical tradition and on contemporary work in narratology, Isenberg analyzes Turgenev's "First Love," Dostoevsky's "gentle Creature, " Tolstoy's "Kreutzer Sonata," and works by Chekhov, Kharms, and Makanin to provide new insight into the frame narrative of passion.
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