Theorizing narrativity / edited by John Pier and José Ángel García Landa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pier, John.

García Landa, José Angel.

Series:

Narratologia

Narratologia, 1612-8427 ; 12

Narratologia ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Theorizing Narrativity is a collective work by an international array of leading specialists in narrative theory. It provides new perspectives on the nature of narrative, genre theory, narrative semiotics and communication theory. Most contributions center on the specificity of literary fiction, but each chapter investigates a different dimension of narrativity with many issues dealt with in innovative ways (including oral storytelling, the law, video games, causality, intertextuality and the theory of reading). There are chapters by Gerald Prince on narrativehood and narrativity, Meir Sternberg on the narrativity of the law-code, Werner Wolf on chance and Peter Hühn on eventfulness in fiction, Jukka Tyrkkö on kaleidoscope narratives, Marie-Laure Ryan on transfictionality and computer games, Ansgar Nünning and Roy Sommer as well as Monika Fludernik on the narrativity of drama, Beatriz Penas on (non)standard narrativities, David Rudrum on narrativity and performativity, Michael Toolan on textual guidance, John Pier on causality and retrospection, and José Ángel García Landa on retelling and represented narrations.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction / PIER, JOHN / GARCÍA LANDA, JOSÉ ÁNGEL

Narrativehood, Narrativeness, Narrativity, Narratability / PRINCE, GERALD

If-Plots: Narrativity and the Law-Code / STERNBERG, MEIR

After this, therefore because of this / PIER, JOHN

Functions and Forms of Eventfulness in Narrative Fiction / HÜHN, PETER

Chance in Fiction as a Privileged Index of Implied Worldviews: A Contribution to the Study of the World-Modelling Functions of Narrative Fiction / WOLF, WERNER

A Pragma-stylistic Contribution to the Study of Narrativity: Standard and Non-standard Narrativities / PENAS IBÁÑEZ, BEATRIZ

Narrativity and Performativity: From Cervantes to Star Trek / RUDRUM, DAVID

'Kaleidoscope' Narratives and the Act of Reading / TYRKKÖ, JUKKA

The Language of Guidance / TOOLAN, MICHAEL

Diegetic and Mimetic Narrativity: Some further Steps towards a Narratology of Drama / NÜNNING, ANSGAR / SOMMER, ROY

Narrative and Drama / FLUDERNIK, MONIKA

Transfictionality across Media / RYAN, MARIE-LAURE

Narrating Narrating: Twisting the Twice-Told Tale / GARCÍA LANDA, JOSÉ ÁNGEL

Author/Name Index

Notes:

"Theorizing Narrativity is a collective work by an international array of leading specialists in narrative theory. It provides new perspectives on the nature of narrative, genre theory, narrative semiotics and communication theory. Most contributions center on the specificity of literary fiction, but each chapter investigates a different dimension of narrativity with many issues dealt with in innovative ways (including oral storytelling, the law, video games, causality, intertextuality and the theory of reading). There are chapters by Gerald Prince on narrativehood and narrativity, Meir Sternberg on the narrativity of the law-code, Werner Wolf on chance and Peter Hühn on eventfulness in fiction, Jukka Tyrkkö on kaleidoscope narratives, Marie-Laure Ryan on transfictionality and computer games, Ansgar Nünning and Roy Sommer as well as Monika Fludernik on the narrativity of drama, Beatriz Penas on (non)standard narrativities, David Rudrum on narrativity and performativity, Michael Toolan on textual guidance, John Pier on causality and retrospection, and José Ángel García Landa on retelling and represented narrations"--From publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110969801

3110969807

OCLC:

979907906