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.

Channelling figurativity through narrative: The paranarrative in fiction and non-fiction:

Abstract: Contrary to widespread assumptions, metaphor in narrative is not a pre-established, extra-textual form appearing in different instances of discourse, but rather an event resulting from a strategic ...

Narrative Theory for Complexity Scientists

Abstract: The aim of this chapter is to outline some of the key ideas and concepts in narrative theory, in order to make the field more accessible to those who have only a passing acquaintance with it (complexity scientists in particular). The chapter first gives an account of what narrative is, and then goes on to draw out some of the implications of that account for the way we think and understand in narrative terms. My discussion of these implications draws attention, as opportunity arises, to respects in which the form of narrative bears upon our ability to understand and communicate the way complex systems behave. The chapter does not survey the many facets of the problematic relation between narrative sensemaking and complex systems (that is really the work of the book as a whole), but it does provide a reasonably solid theoretical underpinning for the narrative problems, questions and possibilities taken up in subsequent chapters.

Narrative and Media: From structuralism to post-structuralism

Abstract: Martin McQuillan, editor of The Narrative Reader , describes the usual history of narrative theory as a story: Histories of narrative theory tend to follow a familiar pattern … The story goes: In the beginning there was Aristotle who theorised ‘plot’, then there came the novelists who theorised their own plots, then after some false starts (Propp, Benjamin, Bakhtin) narrative theory really took off with narratology (the structuralist-led ‘science of narrative’). However, like the dinosaurs, narratologists died out and were replaced by more mobile, covert forms of narrative theory within a ‘post-structuralist’ diaspora. Narrative theory now lives on, embedded in the work and tropes of post-structuralism. (McQuillan 2000: xi) In this Darwinian account, McQuillan parodies the oversimplification of the ‘evolution’ of narrative theory. The linear storyline is too simple because it assumes a reductive Enlightenment myth of progress, where what comes after necessarily replaces and is better than what came before. (Conversely, by those critics who shudder at the word ‘post-structuralist’, or its stylistic companion, ‘postmodernist’, the same succession of theories can be interpreted as a story of decadence and decay.) In this chapter I describe some of the major differences between theories. It is well to remember that people have different purposes in analysing narrative, and some theories better suit different purposes. This is particularly so in relation to the study of commercial media texts, as the discussions in the following chapters will illustrate.

Genre en plot georiënteerde narratief-kritiese eksegese van Evangeliemateriaal : inleiding tot narratiewe kritiek

Abstract: Genre and plot oriented exegesis of Gospel material: Introducing narrative criticism This contribution to methodology and hermeneutics, consisting of two articles, aim to argue for combining historical criticism and narrative criticism. The first article shows how genre orientation can provide hermeneutical cues for determining an appropriate exegetical model and method. The article aims to apply Gerard Genette’s narratology as a narrative-critical model for the exegesis of Gospel material. The article focuses on the role plot analysis fulfills in narrative criticism. This discussion is illustrated with examples from the Gospels of Mark, Luke, Matthew and John. The article concludes with a preface to the second article in which aspects such as point of view and focalization, time and space, and characterization will be discussed, also applied to Gospel material.