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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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10 Oct 2013
TL;DR: A broad range of approaches are covered, from well-established and well-known thematic analysis (particularly of 'big stories'), to the more recent sociolinguistic discourse analysis of'small stories', and the innovative analysis and presentation of visual and performance data such as drawings and drama.
Abstract: This book brings together contributions from various researchers, providing an overview of narrative research approaches and demonstrating how these work in practice. A broad range of approaches are covered, from well-established and well-known thematic analysis (particularly of 'big stories'), to the more recent sociolinguistic discourse analysis of 'small stories', and the innovative analysis and presentation of visual and performance data such as drawings and drama. This overview includes not just an illustration of narrative research, but the methodological processes which underpin it, relating these to relevant narrative theory. The book, therefore, is both a how-to-do narrative research text and a presentation of narrative studies, providing case study examples and ideas for further research.
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26 Mar 2009
TL;DR: From Plato to Lumiere as mentioned in this paper proposes that all forms of narrative are mediated by an "underlying narrator" who exists between the author and narrative text, and examines the practices of novelists, playwrights, and filmmakers and applies his theory to the early cinema of the Lumiere brothers.
Abstract: With this lucid translation of Du litteraire au filmique, Andre Gaudreault's highly influential and original study of film narratology is now accessible to English-language audiences for the first time. Building a theory of narrative on sources as diverse as Plato, The Arabian Nights,and Proust, From Plato to Lumiere challenges narratological orthodoxy by positing that all forms of narrative are mediated by an .underlying narrator. who exists between the author and narrative text. Offering illuminating insights, definitions, and formal distinctions, Gaudreault examines the practices of novelists, playwrights, and filmmakers and applies his theory to the early cinema of the Lumiere brothers and more recent films. He also enhances our understanding of how narrative develops visually without language - monstration - by detailing how the evolution of the medium influenced narratives in cinema. From Plato to Lumiere includes a translation of Paul Ricoeur's preface to the French-language edition as well as a new preface by Tom Gunning. It is a must-read for cinema and media students and scholars and an essential text on the study of narrative.
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TL;DR: In this article, a female athlete who engages in severe self-starvation was analyzed through principles of narrative analysis, with attention afforded to both narrative content and structure, and it was found that the performance narrative spans both academic and sporting cultural domains and it can play a role in athlete disordered eating.
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24 Apr 2015
TL;DR: One of the most prominent recent developments in narrative theory is the work of Brian Richardson as discussed by the authors, who collected his explorations of unnatural narratives in his 2006 study Unnatural Voices, which quickly attracted a group of young scholars, focusing on unusual fictional texts and questioning the usual narratological concepts.
Abstract: * Richardson, Brian. Unnatural Narrative: Theory, History, and Practice. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 20x5.197 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8142-1279-0. * Alber, Jan. Unnatural Narrative: Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama. Lincoln and London: U of Nebraska P, 2016. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8032-7868-4. Unnatural narratology has become one of the most prominent recent developments in narrative theory. It started around the year 2000 with the work of Brian Richardson, who collected his explorations of unnatural narratives in his 2006 study Unnatural Voices. The approach quickly attracted a group of young scholars, focusing on unusual fictional texts and questioning the usual narratological concepts. Among them were Jan Alber, Stefan Iversen, Maria Makela, and Henrik Skov Nielsen. The term "unnatural" obviously alluded to Monika Fludernik's "natural narratology" (1996). Fludernik was inspired by Jonathan Culler's idea of "naturalization," stressing the ways in which readers try to turn alienating texts into something they can understand. Richardson, on the other hand, took his cue from postmodernist fiction and poststructuralist theories, stressing the irreducibility of the alien and the exceptional. Culler's "naturalization" is a strategy that turns the peculiar and the unknown into the known. It depends upon "cultural and literary models" supposedly present in readers' heads (138). These models range from general cultural patterns of signification, such as intentionality, to specific literary knowledge of periods and genres. The application of the models normalizes the abnormal: "'Naturalization' emphasizes the fact that the strange or deviant is brought within a discursive order and thus made to seem natural" (137). Fludernik elaborates on and updates Culler's study of these models via cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis. From William Labov she borrows the term "natural narrative"--oral, everyday stories people tell each other. Fludernik develops Culler's concept of models into her concept of frames; she uses the term "experientiality" to describe the central process of normalization (as soon as a reader recognizes a center of experience in a narrative, he or she can come to grips with the text); and she replaces the term "naturalization" with "narrativation." Although Fludernik's basic idea is that people tend to normalize the abnormal, she does realize that some texts cannot be fully normalized. Narratives such as James Joyce's Finnegans Wake remain "unreadable" (Towards 293). They result in collapse: When narrativization breaks down, whether incipiently or in full measure, it does so where the consciousness factor can no longer be utilized to tide over radical inconsistency, and this happens first and foremost where overall textual coherence or micro-level linguistic coherence (and cohesion) are at risk. (317) The preference for consistency and narrativization that seems to underlie formulations like these is precisely what Richardson's unnatural narratology rejects. Simply put, he sees the process of naturalization as a form of reductionism, which smooths over the problematic aspects of narrative texts and which reformulates the new into something old. In this way, the complex, literary, and disruptive nature of the narrative is disregarded. Unnatural narratology, on the other hand, holds this complex nature in high regard and wants to respect it in its interpretation. The fundamental differences between the two narratological views were formulated clearly in a joint 2010 essay by Alber et al. They claimed that natural and classical narratology are guilty of "mimetic reductionism" ("Unnatural Narratives" 115) as they reduce the sophistication of literary narrative to everyday storytelling. The theorists point to three levels of literary "unnaturalness" (116): unnatural storyworlds (in which impossible things happen), unnatural minds (e.g., a character that knows he is being narrated by someone else, or an omniscient character), and unnatural acts of narration (e. …
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