Narrative sequence in contemporary narratology / edited by Raphaël Baroni and Françoise Revaz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baroni, Raphaël, editor.

Revaz, Françoise, editor.

Series:

Theory and interpretation of narrative series

Theory and interpretation of narrative

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narration (Rhetoric).

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Physical Description:

viii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2016]

Summary:

Since Aristotle, there has been an assumption that narrative is a representation of actions or sequences of events, that this representation aims to elicit emotions, and that well-formed narratives constitute a whole, with a beginning, a middle, and an end. The nature, role, and relative importance of constituent notions like "sequence of events" and "plot" have been discussed repeatedly and, as a result, have become rather slippery. While recent developments in contemporary narrative theory, such as unnatural, transmedial, cognitive, and functionalist narratology, shed new light on these notions, Narrative Sequence in Contemporary Narratology goes beyond specific approaches to narrative, illuminating sequence and plot in all the diversity of their manifestations, forms, and functions. This volume, edited by Raphaël Baroni and Françoise Revaz, includes contributions from some of the most influential scholars in narrative studies: Alain Boillat, Peter Hühn, Emma Kafalenos, Franco Passalacqua, James Phelan, Federico Pianzola, John Pier, Gerald Prince, Brian Richardson, Marie-Laure Ryan, Eyal Segal, and Michael Toolan. Essays range in focus from musical narrativity and rhetorical narrative theory to comic strips and re-examinations of classical and postclassical narratology. All of the essays contribute fresh understandings of foundational concepts in the field of narratology. Book jacket.

Contents:

On narrative sequence, classical and postclassical / Gerald Prince

The configuration of narrative sequences / John Pier

The eventfulness of non-events / Peter Huhn

Privileged authorial disclosure about events: Wolff's "Bullet in the brain" and O'Hara's "Appearances" / James Phelan

Ending twice over (or more): alternate endings in narrative / Eyal Segal

Virtualities of plot and the dynamics of rereading / Raphael Baroni

Intrigue, suspense, and sequentiality in comic strips: reading little Sammy Sneeze / Alain Boillat and Francoise Revaz

Musical narrativity / Michael Toolan

Narrativizing the matrix / Emma Kafalenos

Unusual and unnatural narrative sequences / Brian Richardson

Sequence, linearity, spatiality, or: why be afraid of fixed narrative order? / Marie-Laure Rya

Conclusion: Epistemological problems in narrative theory: objectivist vs constructivist paradigm / Franco Passalacqua and Federico Pianzola.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814212967

0814212964

9780814252604

0814252605

OCLC:

923017631

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