Point of view, perspective, and focalization : modeling mediation in narrative / edited by Peter Huhn, Wolf Schmid, Jorg Schonert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hühn, Peter, 1939-

Schmid, Wolf.

Schönert, Jörg.

Series:

Narratologia ; 17.

Narratologia, 1612-8427 ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Point of view (Literature).

Mediation.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Stories do not actually exist in the (fictional or factual) world but are constituted, structured and endowed with meaning through the process of mediation, i.e. they are represented and transmitted through systems of verbal, visual or audio-visual signs. The terms usually proposed to describe aspects of mediation, especially perspective, point of view, and focalization, have yet to bring clarity to this field, which is of central importance, not only for narratology but also for literary and media studies. One crucial problem about mediation concerns the dimensions of its modeling effect, particularly the precise status and constellation of the mediating agents, i.e. author, narrator or presenter and characters. The question is how are the structure and the meaning of the story conditioned by these different positions in relation to the mediated happenings perceived from outside and/or inside the storyworld? In this volume, fourteen articles by international scholars from seven different countries address these problems anew from various angles, reviewing the sub-categorization of mediation and re-specifying its dimensions both in literary texts and other media such as drama and theater, film, and computer games.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Re-Specifications of Perspective

The DNS of Mediacy

Focalization: Where Do We Go from Here?

Perspectivization and Focalization: Two Concepts-One Meaning? An Attempt at Conceptual Differentiation

A Brief Introduction to an Enunciative Approach to Point of View

Narrative and Stylistic Agency: The Case of Overt Narration

Beyond Voice and Vision: Cognitive Grammar and Focalization Theory

Plural Focalization, Singular Voices: Wandering Perspectives in "We"-Narration

Part II: Some Special Aspects of Mediation

A Comparative Analysis of Indices of Narrative Point of View in Bulgarian and English

Focalization, the Subject and the Act of Shaping Perspective

Coming to Our Senses: Narratology and the Visual

Part III: Transliterary Aspects of Mediation

Organizing the Perspectives: Focalization and the Superordinate Narrative System in Drama and Theater

Focalization, Ocularization and Auricularization in Film and Literature

Film Narratology: Who Tells? Who Shows? Who Focalizes? Narrative Mediation in Self-Reflexive Fiction Films

Perspective in Contemporary Computer Games

Backmatter

Notes:

"The majority of the papers collected in this volume are based on talks given at the conference ... held at Hamburg University by the Hamburg Research Group "Narratology" (Forschergruppe Narratologie) from October 13 to 15, 2006, titled "Point of View, Perspective, Focalization: Modeling Mediacy."

ISBN:

9786612187827

9781282187825

1282187821

9783110218916

3110218917

OCLC:

495477544