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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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08 Mar 2012
TL;DR: This book discusses Cybertext Theory Revisited, Cybertextuality and Transtextuality, and Ergodic Modes and Play, as well as other aspects of cybertextual Narratology and its applications to gaming.
Abstract: Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Cybertext Theory Revisited Chapter 3: Cybertextuality and Transtextuality Chapter 4: The Textual Whole Chapter 5: Modes, Genres, Text Types and the Enigma of the Ergodic Chapter 6: Towards Cybertextual Narratology: The Amalgam of Narratologies Chapter 7: Interval 1: Towards an Expanded Narratology Chapter 8: Tense Chapter 9: Mood Chapter 10: Voice Chapter 11: Interval 2: Ergodic and Narrative Discourses Chapter 12: Ludology and the Exhaustion of Narratology Chapter 13: Game Ecology and the Classic Game Model Chapter 14: Game Ontology Chapter 15: The Gaming Situation Chapter 16: Game Time Chapter 17: Interval 3: Games as Configurative Practices: Models and Metaphors Chapter 18: Transmedial Modes and Ecologies Chapter 19: Ergodic Modes and Play Chapter 20: Textual Instruments and Instrumental Texts Bibliography Index.

65 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, an embodied theory of presen... is presented, drawing on research in narrative theory and literary aesthetics, text and discourse processing, phenomenology and the experimental cognitive sciences.
Abstract: Drawing on research in narrative theory and literary aesthetics, text and discourseprocessing, phenomenology and the experimental cognitive sciences,this paper outlines an embodied theory of presen ...

64 citations

Journal Article
22 Jun 2000-Style
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss some of the theoretical implications of a text-type approach to the definition of narrative and propose a triad based on the model of text linguistics, which they modelled on textlinguistic work found in Longacre's The Grammar of Discourse.
Abstract: In Coming to Terms (1990), Seymour Chatman initiated an enquiry into the delimitation of the narrative text type as against the text types of argument and description. This revolutionary step was a major landmark for literary scholars; linguists, by contrast, had been battling with the same problems for two decades, trying to distinguish between, on the one hand, the larger text types that are constitutive of our understanding of narrative versus expository or exhortative discourse (in oral or written formats), and, on the other hand, the surface textual sequences of report, dialogue, argument, descriptipn, and so on. In narrative studies, too, there arose some recognition that a narrative text does not exclusively consist in narrative sentences but includes a large number of supposedly nonnarrative items (the speech and thought representation of the characters, for instance) as well as metanarrative features (e.g., the narrator's evaluation, reader address) and some strictly speaking nonnarrative elements, s uch as description, that are, however, constitutive of how most narratives handle the setting. All of these supposedly nonnarrative elements are basic ingredients of any narrative surface structure. From the classic definition of narrative as a "mixed" genre (combining mimesis and diegesis) to Helmut Bonheim's The Narrative Modes (1982), which analyses narrative texts as sequences of report, speech, description, and comment, narratologists and literary scholars have been keenly aware of the fact that novels or short stories or even historical works are not uniformly "narrative." Not every sentence in a narrative text, that is, qualifies as "narrative" by the standards of narratological narrativity. It was Chatman's unique achievement to focus on this impurity of the narrative surface structure with renewed critical attention and to tackle the problem in a manner anticipated by text linguistics. I would like to return to the problem of narrative's variegated textual surface structure, picking up where I left this issue of generic classification and text types in Towards a 'Natural' Narratology (1996). In a very brief section of chapter 8 of that book (section 8.4, esp. 356-58), I had proposed a revision and extension of Chatman's triad which I modelled on textlinguistic work found in Longacre's The Grammar of Discourse. I would now like to expand this proposal even further, linking it more comprehensively with the structure of natural narratology. In particular, I wish to discuss some of the theoretical implications of a text-type approach to the definition of narrative. I will start by introducing a few models from text linguistics, especially the model of Virtanen and Warvik with which I was not familiar when writing Towards a 'Natural' Narratology. 1. Text Types Linguists have realized for some time that textual surface structures display a wide spectrum of forms that vary with the respective type of discourse. Since text linguistics, unlike literary scholarship, does not focus primarily on literary or even on written texts, linguists have had to develop a great number of concepts to account for variety in language use (register e.g.) or for the use of language in specific situations (e.g. telephone conversations; natural narrative; doctor-patient discourse; instruction manuals; cookbooks, etc.). The term "text type" in text linguistics refers to a number of quite distinct phenomena on a variety of different levels. In "Text-Type as a Linguistic Unit," for instance, Esser defines text type as "language variation according to use as opposed to variation according to user" (142). [1] He distinguishes between extensional definitions (text types as genres); definitions based on external criteria of production; on structurally defined schemata or superstructures (cf. van Dijk); and definitions deriving from "abstracted corpus norms" established by means of statistical analysis (e.g., in the work of Biber). …

63 citations

Journal Article
TL;DR: Important aspects of narrative therapy are examined, including the unique role of questioning in the narrative process; understanding and helping patients change their problem-saturated stories; renaming and externalizing the patient problem; and the use of rituals, documents, and audience in recognizing and reinforcing patient change.
Abstract: This article presents narrative theory and therapy as an approach with significant potential for providing family physicians with additional tools to assist them in dealing with difficult clinician-patient encounters. We first define narrative therapy, then briefly describe its theoretical assumptions in relation to psychosocial concepts already familiar to family physicians. Important aspects of narrative therapy are examined, including the unique role of questioning in the narrative process; understanding and helping patients change their problem-saturated stories; renaming and externalizing the patient problem; and the use of rituals, documents, and audience in recognizing and reinforcing patient change. The article concludes with thoughts about how narrative approaches can contribute to more-healing doctor-patient relationships.

63 citations


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