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.

Lethal love : feminist literary readings of biblical love stories

Abstract: Preface Introduction 1 The Emergence of the Lethal Woman, or the Use of Hermeneutic Models Pregnancy and the Limits of Power The Use of Interpretation The Use of Form The Use of Frame-Theory The Use of Narratology The Use of the Text The Use of Symmetry The Use of Frames The Use of the Subject The Use of Competition 2 Delilah Decomposed: SamsonOs Talking Cure and the Thetoric of Subjectivity Reading Heroes Questions Asked and Problems Revealed The Emergence of the Hero Samson and Delilah SamsonOs Death Who Is Samson? Samson, Patriarchy, and Social Reality 3 Heroism and Proper Names, or the Fruits of Analogy Balancing the Tension Starting from a Detail Narrativization of the Proper Name In Search of the Subject In Search of Foundations, or the Subjects versus the Law The Unconscious Performing Speech Acts: Symptoms Reflecting Reflection 4One Woman, Many Men, and the Dialectic of Chronology The Limits of Higher Criticism On the Margins of Anachrony: Paralepsis, or the Deviation from the Straight Path Tamar from Father to Son, or On Subversion Juxtaposition, or Similarity behind Displacement OnanOs Offspring, or How to Conceive Safely TamarOs Matchmaking: The Mirror Stage 5 Sexuality, Sin, and Sorrow: The Emergence of the Female Character Characterizing Character The Emergence of a Myth: Collocation The Emergence of the Human Body: Unaccomplishment The Emergence of the Female Body: Sexual Difference The Emergence of Activity: Sin? The Emergence of Character: Sorrow The Effect of Naming Afterword References Index

Impossible Storyworlds—and What to Do with Them

Abstract: One of the most interesting things about fictional nar ratives is that they do not only mimetically reproduce the world as we know it. Many narratives confront us with bizarre storyworlds which are governed by prin ciples that have very little to do with the real world around us. Even though many narrative texts teem with unnatural (i.e., physically or logically impossible) scenarios that take us to the limits of human cogni tion, narrative theory has not yet done justice to these cases of unnaturalness or the question of how readers can come to terms with them. In what follows, I define the term unnatural and outline a cognitive model that describes ways in which readers can make sense of unnatural scenarios. Second, I use these reading strategies to discuss examples of unnaturalness in postmodernist narratives.1 Arguing that ideas from cognitive narratology help illuminate

Oral versions of personal experience : three decades of narrative analysis

Abstract: Volume 7, Numbers 1-4, 1997. Contents: M.G.W. Bamberg, Introductory Note. W. Labov, J. Waletzky, Narrative Analysis: Oral Versions of Personal Experience. G. Prince, Narratology and Narratological Analysis. C. Bernstein, Labov and Waletzky in Context. J. Tolliver, From Labov and Waletzky to "Contextualist Narratology": 1967-1997. J. Bruner, Labov and Waletzky, Thirty Years On. E.G. Mishler, A Matter of Time: When, Since, After Labov and Waletzky. P.J. Hopper, Dualisms in the Study of Narrative: A Note on Labov and Waletzky. E. Ochs, L. Capps, Narrative Authenticity. J. Holmes, Struggling Beyond Labov and Waletzky. E.A. Schegloff, "Narrative Analysis" Thirty Years Later. M.H. Goodwin, Toward Families of Stories in Context. A. Kuntay, S. Ervin-Tripp, Narrative Structure and Conversational Circumstances. U.M. Quasthoff, Were You Ever in a Situation Where You Were in Serious Danger of Being Killed? Narrator-Listener Interaction in Labov and Waletzky's Narratives. D. Schiffrin, Stories in Answers to Questions in Research Interviews. D. Edwards, Structure and Function in the Analysis of Everyday Narratives. D. Keller-Cohen, J. Dyer, Intertextuality and the Narrative of Personal Experience. C.K. Riessman, A Short Story About Long Stories. S. Fleischman, The "Labovian Model" Revisited With Special Consideration of Literary Narrative. M. Freeman, Why Narrative? Hermeneutics, Historical Understanding, and the Significance of Stories. C.L. Briggs, Sequentiality and Temporalization in the Narrative Construction of a South American Cholera Epidemic. C.B. Cazden, Speakers, Listeners, and Speech Events in Issues of Universality. J.P Gee, Thematized Echoes. C.E. Snow, A. Imbens-Bailey, Beyond Labov and Waletzky: The Antecedents of Narrative Discourse. C. Daiute, K. Nelson, Making Sense of the Sense-Making Function of Narrative Evaluation. J.B. Gleason, G. Melzi, The Mutual Construction of Narrative by Mothers and Children: Cross-Cultural Observations. E. Hoff-Ginsberg, Frog Stories From Four-Year-Olds: Individual Differences in the Expression of Referential and Evaluative Content. S. Engel, How to Read the Work of Child Authors: A Tribute to Labov and Waletzky. R.A. Berman, Narrative Theory and Narrative Development: The Labovian Impact. B. Wiemer, Narrative Units and the Temporal Organization of Ordinary Discourse. C. Peterson, A. McCabe, Extending Labov and Waletzky. H.K. Ulatowska, G.S. Olness, Some Observations on Narratives by Aphasics and Their Contributions to Narrative Theory. A.R. Bower, the Role of Narrative in the Study of Language and Aging. W.U. Dressler, H.K. Stark, Micro-Units and Macro-Units in Text Theory and in Investigation of Left- and Right-Brain-Damaged Patients. C. Linde, Narrative: Experience, Memory, Folklore. J. Cook-Gumperz, J.J. Gumperz, Narrative Explanations: Accounting for Past Experience in Interviews. J.R. Martin, G. Plum, Construing Experience: Some Story Genres. M. Shiro, Labov's Model of Narrative Analysis as an Emerging Study in Discourse. B. Johnstone, Social Characteristics and Self-Expression in Narrative. S. Ehrlich, Literary Texts and the Violation of Narrative Norms. R. Harre, "He Lived to Tell the Tale." M.G.W. Bamberg, Positioning Between Structure and Performance. A. Imbens-Bailey, When Sentences Are Not Enough: Narrative Data and Cultural Identity. R. Ely, Everything Including Talk and Why You Hafta Listen. I.E. Josephs, Talking With the Dead: Self-Construction as Dialogue. A. Nicolopoulou, Labov's Legacy for Narrative Research--and Its Ironies. M.B. Tappan, Analyzing Stories of Moral Experience: Narrative, Voice, and the Dialogical Self. H.J.M. Hermans, Dialogue Shakes Narrative: From Temporal Storyline to Spatial Juxtaposition. W. Labov, Some Further Steps in Narrative Analysis.

Narrative theory and retranslation theory

Abstract: In the paper I bring together two sets of theories from Narrative Theory and from Retranslation Theory. Links and similarities between the theories are examined under the headings of Essence, Social Conditioning, and Interpretation. A post-structuralist narrative theory is presented, and I extrapolate from this to propose a post-structuralist retranslation theory. After the theoretical discussion I report on the study of a corpus comprising Zola's novel Nana and its five major British (re)translations. The aim is to evaluate how well the theories regarding narrative versions and retranslations hold up with respect to a study of data. A conclusion is reached as to which theories best explain the data. The paper concludes too that bringing together sets of theories from different but related disciplines can be productive in conceptualizing translational phenomena, in this case the phenomenon of retranslation.

Solving the Narrative Paradox in VEs – Lessons from RPGs

Abstract: Narrative within Virtual Environments (VEs) is a compromise between pre-authored narrative structures and user freedom in terms of interaction and physical movement. We present results of a recent investigation on the narrative structures and mechanisms of Role Playing Games (RPGs), and assess the potential of non-conventional narrative forms for computer implementation. We address the potential benefits for the research currently undertaken by the AI community in terms of storytelling and interactive storytelling.