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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: This paper revisited one aspect of such research: that focused on the global narrative profile, often referred to as plot structure, and argued that while there are superficial parallels between the characteristics of ecriture feminine and stylistic features in her work that relate to the perception of narrativity, it is not possible to propose a definitive correlation between gender and narrative form.
Abstract: Feminist narratology is a burgeoning field in the study of language and literature. This article revisits one aspect of such research: that focused on the global narrative profile, often referred to as plot structure. The analysis presented here considers this in light of the potential relationship(s) between gender and narrativity. Particular reference is made to the fiction by contemporary author Michele Roberts. I argue that while there are superficial parallels between the characteristics of ecriture feminine and the stylistic features in her work that relate to the perception of narrativity, it is not possible to propose a definitive correlation between gender and narrative form. Instead, by taking a deliberately integrative stance and drawing upon recent questions raised in feminist linguistics, a series of critical re-evaluations may be put forward that suggest there is further work yet to be done in developing feminist narratology.

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TL;DR: The authors discusses narratology from a semiotic and functional perspective and argues for advertisement as a social text in which are mythologizing effects of oral literature and political discourse are used for illustration.
Abstract: This paper dialogues narratology from semiotic and functional perspectives. It focuses on creativity and innovativeness within the information industry for marketing needs in the information society. Narratology is associated with oral literature within the context of commercial advertisement and political discourse. It argues for advertisement as a social text in which are mythologizing effects of oral literature. Narratology in mobile phone and banking discourse and narratology in political discourse are used for illustration. Key words: Narratology, Semiotic, Discourse, Intermedial, Functionalism Intermedial, Narratology, Semiotic, Discourse, Functional Introduction A version of this paper was originally prepared and presented at the annual Kiswahili colloquium, (being the 23rd in a series), of the University of Bayreuth's African Literatures unit in 2005. The debate that ensued, coupled with controversy among scholars on the acceptability/unacceptability of the approach I had taken, a controversy that is also evident in various positions held across publications herein referred to, further motivated and inspired the preparation of this paper. The paper as presented at the colloquium was titled Oral Literature from a semiotic and functional perspectivei. Focus was on the properties in commercial advertisement and political discourse, amongst other textual forms, that are narrative following the integration of literary devices, especially of the oral literature nature. The pragmatic function of such oral literature devices was therefore core to the presentation. They were seen to communicate variously across the demographic strata and socioeconomic divides of the Kenyan clientele (receiver and consumer). My goal then, as is now, was to stir debate and make case for an approach to discourse analysis that is interdisciplinary while at the same time foregrounding narratological identity, function and techniques. The synergies in such an approach should be seen to draw from semiotic, pragmatic and functional dimensions of language use on one hand, and inter-medial and interdisciplinary convergence and cross-fertilization on the other, hence multidimensional perspectives to narrative appreciation. Factors that underlie aspects of everyday language use domains in social contexts will therefore be seen to contribute in making up networks and pools from which such an approach can be pursued in academic search. Eclecticism becomes inevitable though not exclusive. A glance at the current trend and situation in literary criticism shows that narratology is alive, well and sprouting via many emergent perspectives and text manifestations. In spite of the continued search for universal patterns in narratology, there is an increasing focus on the specifics of the disciplines and contexts that apply, either directly or indirectly, narratology techniques in their fields of inquiry. Such approaches include continued focus on context and historical contingency of theoretical systems; redefinition of narrative epochs as opposed to distancing self from universal patterns; concern with actual empirical social data that benefits from linguistic approaches of discourse analysis; and the more emerging post structural deconstructivist paradigms (Meister, 2005)ii, that are broader and all embracing when viewed from an interdisciplinary and eclectic prism. Meister(iii) (ibid) observes: We had hoped that it would be relatively easy to turn the debate about the object domain of narratology into one about narratological theory itself on a reflexive metalevel but this was probably a deformation professionelle typical of literary critics ... would seem positively hubristic to natural scientists, and it must strike those involved in empirically or historically oriented human and social sciences as somewhat strange at best. ...crossing so easily from the discourse of data to that of theory, however, cannot but seem unusual when . …

8 citations

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27 Apr 2017

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TL;DR: The authors demonstrate the application of narrative theory to a seminal book in the genre, Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak, and demonstrate how it can be used to understand the semantic structure of picture books.
Abstract: Narrative is the most vital element in literature for children, not only in the novel, but also in the modern picture book. Yet critical theory dealing with the narrative function of illustrations, as distinct from narrative elements in the text, is sadly lacking. It needs to be expanded if we, as adult readers of literature for children, want to understand the semantic structure of picture books. This paper will demonstrate the application of narrative theory to a seminal book in the genre, Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak.1

8 citations


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