Relevance and narrative research / edited by Matei Chihaia and Katharina Rennhak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chihaia, Matei, editor.

Rennhak, Katharina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narration (Rhetoric).

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Relevance.

Physical Description:

xxx, 202 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]

Summary:

"Relevance and Narrative Research turns the vaguely defined evaluative tool 'relevance' into an object of study, firmly situating questions of relevance in the context of narrative theory. It examines what relevance can do for narrative research and vice versa"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : the dialectics of relevance and narrative research / Matei Chihaia and Katharina Rennhak

The (ir)relevance of narratology / Susan S. Lanser

Disciplining relevance : on manifest and latent functions of narratives / Andreas Mahler

Relevant logics, counterfactual worlds, and the understanding of narrative / Luis Galván

Relevance theory and literary studies, and some thoughts on Paul Torday's The irresistible inheritance of Wilberforce / Carsten Breul

Communication, life, and dangerous things : on relevance and tellability in pictures / Michael Ranta

The relevance of irrelevance in mimetic narratives : guess what? / Raphaël Baroni

Narrating random probes : the ideal of "slice-of-life" / Sebastian Domsch

Relevance theory in contemporary narratology : processing meaning from narrative texts / Sonja Klimek

"Less is more" : narrative strategies of reduction and the construct of (ir)relevance in the works of three French minimalist authors / Susanne Schlünder

The relevance of narrative theory for the study of short fiction : the case of first-person present-tense narration / Elke D'hoker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Relevance and narrative research

ISBN:

9781498586825

1498586821

OCLC:

1081384765

Publisher Number:

99983600226