The dynamics of narrative form : studies in Anglo-American narratology / edited by John Pier.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Pier, John.

European Society for the Study of English.

Conference Name:

Congress of the European Society for the Study of English (6th : 2002 : Strasburg)

Series:

Narratologia

Narratologia, 1612-8427 ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narration (Rhetoric)--Congresses.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By redefining established topics of narratology, research has become highly diversified. The contributions to this volume neither synthesize developments nor work from shared postulates, but represent a fresh look at ongoing issues. Some scrutinize focalisation in a linguistic framework or in a poststructuralist vein; others take on reliable and unreliable narration in a pronominal perspective or the "unaddressed" reader who upsets the tidy schemes of narrative communication. Also outlined are a possible worlds approach to narrative time, a systematic treatment of metanarrative and a transgeneric application of narratology to poetry. The sequential ordering of narratives as a way of controlling reader response is examined in one article and in another is seen to elicit intertextual configurations. Both divergent and complementary, the contributions seek to integrate into narratological categories and methods the dynamic processes of narrative itself.

Contents:

Front matter

Preface

Contents

On Metanarrative: Towards a Definition, a Typology and an Outline of the Functions of Metanarrative Commentary / NÜNNING, ANSGAR

(Un-)Reliable Narration from a Pronominal Perspective / MEINDL, DIETER

A Plea for a Narrator-Centered Narratology / RIVARA, RENÉ

Focalization between Classical and Postclassical Narratology / HERMAN, Luc / VERVAECK, BART

Transgeneric Narratology: Applications to Lyric Poetry / HÜHN, PETER

Ontological Plotting: Narrative as a Multiplicity of Temporal Dimensions / DANNENBERG, HILARY P.

Overhearing Narrative / LANDA, JOSÉ ÁNGEL GARCÍA

Graded Expectations: On the Textual and Structural. Shaping of Readers' Narrative Experience / TOOLAN, MICHAEL

Narrative Configurations / PIER, JOHN

NAME INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110922646

OCLC:

843205135