Narratology in the age of cross-disciplinary narrative research / edited by Sandra Heinen, Roy Sommer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heinen, Sandra.

Sommer, Roy.

Series:

Narratologia.

Narratologia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narration (Rhetoric).

Hermeneutics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Narrative Research, once the domain of structuralist literary theory, has over the last 15 years developed into an international and interdisciplinary field. It is now commonly agreed that storytelling functions as a fundamental cognitive tool for sense-making and meaning production, and that human beings structure and communicate lived experience through oral, written and visual stories. Entitled Narratology in the Age of Cross-Disciplinary Narrative Research, this volume collects fifteen essays which look at narrative and narrativity from various perspectives, including literary studies and hermeneutics, cognitive theory and creativity research, metaphor studies, film theory and intermediality, as well as memory studies, musicology, theology and psychology. The topics touch on a wide range of issues, such as the current state of narratology and its potential for development, narrativity in visual and auditive art forms, the cultural functions of narrative, and the role of narrative concepts across the disciplines. The volume introduces interested newcomers to the ongoing debate, reflecting the diversity of research questions and methodological approaches involved. It takes a critical, yet cautiously optimistic stance with regard to the potential for interdisciplinary collaboration between narrative researchers, and invites experienced readers from any discipline interested in narrative to join this important debate, which promotes the exchange of ideas, concepts and methods between the humanities and the social sciences.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Narratology and Interdisciplinarity

Narratology and Hermeneutics: Forging the Missing Link

Narratological Expansionism and Its Discontents

Surveying Contextualist and Cultural Narratologies: Towards an Outline of Approaches, Concepts and Potentials

Narrative Ways of Worldmaking

Making Narrative Worlds: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Literary Storytelling

The Cage Metaphor: Extending Narratology into Corpus Studies and Opening it to the Analysis of Imagery

The Multimodal Novel. The Integration of Modes and Media in Novelistic Narration

Between Attraction and Story: Rethinking Narrativity in Cinema

Seeing or Speaking: Visual Narratology and Focalization, Literature to Film

The Role of Narratology in Narrative Research across the Disciplines

Narratology and Cultural Memory Studies

A "Natural" Reading of Historiographical Texts: George III at Kew

Sounds Like a Story: Narrative Travelling from Literature to Music and Beyond

Theology and Narration: Reflections on the "Narrative Theology"-Debate and Beyond

Toward a New Interdisciplinarity: Integrating Psychological and Humanities Approaches to Narrative

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612345357

9781282345355

1282345354

9783110222432

3110222434

OCLC:

557704158