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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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01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the question of how narrative migrates, mutates, and creates meaning as it is expressed across various media, including face-to-face narratives, still pictures, moving pictures, music, and digital media.
Abstract: Narratology has been conceived from its earliest days as a project that transcends disciplines and media. The essays gathered here address the question of how narrative migrates, mutates, and creates meaning as it is expressed across various media. Dividing the inquiry into five areas: face-to-face narrative, still pictures, moving pictures, music, and digital media, Narrative across Media investigates how the intrinsic properties of the supporting medium shape the form of narrative and affect the narrative experience. Unlike other interdisciplinary approaches to narrative studies, all of which have tended to concentrate on narrative across language-supported fields, this unique collection provides a much-needed analysis of how narrative operates when expressed through visual, gestural, electronic, and musical means. In doing so, the collection redefines the act of storytelling. Although the fields of media and narrative studies have been invigorated by a variety of theoretical approaches, this volume seeks to avoid a dominant theoretical bias by providing instead a collection of concrete studies that inspire a direct look at texts rather than relying on a particular theory of interpretation. A contribution to both narrative and media studies, Narrative across Media is the first attempt to bridge the two disciplines.
386 citations
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15 Jul 2004
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the concept of stylistics and explore different levels of language at work in the context of narrative fiction, using a stylistic approach to point-of-view analysis.
Abstract: A - Introduction: key concepts in stylistics 1 What is stylistics? 2 Stylistics and levels of language 3 Grammar and style 4 Rhythm and metre 5 Narrative stylistics 6 Style as choice 7 Style and point of view 8 Representing speech and thought 9 Dialogue and discourse 10 Cognitive stylistics 11 Metaphor and metonymy 12 New directions in stylistics: corpus approaches B - Development: doing stylistics 1 Developments in stylistics. 2 Levels of language at work: an example from poetry 3 Sentence styles: development and illustration 4 Interpreting patterns of sound 5 Developments in structural narratology 6 Style and transitivity 7 Approaches to point of view 8 Techniques of speech and thought presentation 9 Dialogue in drama 10 Developments in cognitive stylistics 11 Styles of metaphor 12 Developments in corpus stylistics C - Exploration: investigating style 1 Is there a "literary language"? 2 Style, register and dialect 3 Grammar and genre: a short study in Imagism 4 Styles in a single poem: an exploration 5 A sociolinguistic model of narrative 6 Transitivity, characterisation and literary genre 7 Exploring point of view in narrative fiction 8 A workshop on speech and thought presentation 9 Exploring dialogue 10 Cognitive stylistics at work 11 Exploring metaphors in different kinds of texts 12 Using corpora in stylistic analysis D- Extension: readings in stylistics. 1 Stylistics and the teaching of literature (Henry Widdowson) 2 Style and verbal play (Katie Wales) 3 Teaching grammar and style (Ronald Carter) 4 Sound, style and onomatopoeia (Derek Attridge) 5 A typology of narrative gaps (Donald Hardy) 6 Transitivity at work (Deirdre Burton) 7 Style variation and point of view (Mick Short) 8 The effects of free indirect discourse (Joe Bray) 9 Multi-modal analysis and the stylistics of drama (Dan McIntyre) 10 Conceptual blending and stylistic analysis (Barbara Dancygier) 11 Cognitive stylistics and the theory of metaphor (Peter Stockwell) 12 Corpus stylistics (Michaela Mahlberg and Catherine Smith)
354 citations
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24 Nov 2011TL;DR: In this article, the authors define and define Narrative definitions, issues and approaches, as text and structure, and discuss the relationship between narrative and sociocultural variability, power, authority and ownership.
Abstract: 1 Narrative definitions, issues and approaches 2 Narrative as text and structure 3 Narrative and sociocultural variability 4 Narrative interaction 5 Narrative power, authority and ownership 6 Narrative and identities
337 citations
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01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: The Avatars of Story as mentioned in this paper explores how story can achieve diversity by presenting itself under multiple avatars, and how narrative meaning is affected by the authoring software, such as the Infocom parser, the Storyspace hypertext-producing system, and the programs Flash and Director.
Abstract: Since its inception, narratology has developed primarily as an investigation of literary narrative fiction. Linguists, folklorists, psychologists, and sociologists have expanded the inquiry toward oral storytelling, but narratology remains primarily concerned with language-supported stories. In Avatars of Story, Marie-Laure Ryan moves beyond literary works to examine other media, especially electronic narrative forms. By grappling with semiotic media other than language and technology other than print, she reveals how story, a form of meaning that transcends cultures and media, achieves diversity by presenting itself under multiple avatars. Ryan begins by considering, among other texts, a 1989 Cubs-Giants baseball broadcast, the reality television show Survivor, and the film The Truman Show. In all these texts, she sees a narrative that organizes meaning without benefit of hindsight, anticipating the real-time dimension of computer games. She then expands her inquiry to new media. In a discussion covering text-based interactive fiction such as Spider and Web and Galatea, hypertexts such as Califia and Patchwork Girl, multimedia works such as Juvenate, Web-based short narratives, and Facade, a multimedia, AI-supported project in interactive drama, she focuses on how narrative meaning is affected by the authoring software, such as the Infocom parser, the Storyspace hypertext-producing system, and the programs Flash and Director. She also examines arguments that have been brought up against considering computer games such as The Sims and EverQuest as a form of narrative, and responds by outlining an approach to computer games that reconciles their imaginative and strategic dimension. In doing so, Ryan distinguishes a wide spectrum of narrative modes, such as utilitarian, illustrative, indeterminate, metaphorical, participatory, emergent, and simulative. Ultimately, Ryan stresses the difficulty of reconciling narrativity with interactivity and anticipates the time when media will provide new ways to experience stories. Marie-Laure Ryan is an independent scholar and the author of, most recently, Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media.
325 citations
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01 Jan 1998
TL;DR: In this article, an accessible and stimulating summary of the often over-complex theories that have transformed the study of narrative in recent decades is presented, arguing that it is their inseparability which characterises postmodern fiction, criticism and culture.
Abstract: This book is an accessible and stimulating summary of the often over-complex theories that have transformed the study of narrative in recent decades. It establishes direct links between the workings of fictional narratives and those of the non-fictional world, arguing that it is their inseparability which characterises postmodern fiction, criticism and culture.
312 citations