Strange voices in narrative fiction / edited by Per Krogh Hansen ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hansen, Per Krogh.

Series:

Narratologia ; 30.

Narratologia : contributions to narrative theory, 1612-8427 ; 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Fiction.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From its beginnings narratology has incorporated a communicative model of literary narratives, considering these as simulations of natural, oral acts of communication. This approach, however, has had some problems with accounting for the strangeness and anomalies of modern and postmodern narratives. As many skeptics have shown, not even classical realism conforms to the standard set by oral or 'natural' storytelling. Thus, an urge to confront narratology with the difficult task of reconsidering a most basic premise in its theoretical and analytical endeavors has, for some time, been undeniable. During the 2000's, Nordic narratologists have been among the most active and insistent critics of the communicative model. They share a marked skepticism towards the idea of using 'natural' narratives as a model for understanding and interpreting all kinds of narratives, and for all of them, the distinction of fiction is of vital importance. This anthology presents a collection of new articles that deal with strange narratives, narratives of the strange, or, more generally, with the strangeness of fiction, and even with some strange aspects of narratology.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction / Hansen, Per Krogh / Iversen, Stefan / Nielsen, Henrik Skov / Reitan, Rolf

Homonymy, Polysemy and Synonymy: Reflections on the Notion of Voice / PATRON, SYLVIE

'Alternate Strains are to the Muses Dear': The Oddness of Genette's Voice in Narrative Discourse / ANDERSEN KRAGLUND, RIKKE

Fictional Voices? Strange Voices? Unnatural Voices? / NIELSEN, HENRIK SKOV

Significant Deviations: Strange Uses of Voice are One among other Means of Meaning Making / BUNDGAARD, PEER F.

How Strange Are the "Strange Voices" of Fiction? / SKALIN, LARS-ÅKE

Theorizing Second-Person Narratives: A Backwater Project? / REITAN, ROLF

Toward a Typology of Virtual Narrative Voices / GRISHAKOVA, MARINA

Masters of Interiority. Figural Voices as Discursive Appropriators and as Loopholes in Narrative Communication / MÄKELÄ, MARIA

The Fifth Mode of Representation: Ambiguous Voices in Unreliable Third-Person Narration / BEHRENDT, POUL / HANSEN, PER KROGH

Unnatural Voices in Ulysses: Joyce's Postmodern Modes of Narration / RICHARDSON, BRIAN

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613430649

9781283430647

1283430649

9783110268645

3110268647

OCLC:

769190334