Ambiguity and Narratology : Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Diachronic Case Studies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grund, Simon.

Contributor:

Kirstein, Robert.

Wagner, Julian.

Series:

Narratologia Series

Narratologia Series ; v.92

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ambiguity.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024.

Summary:

This volume explores the intersection of ambiguity and narratology through a series of essays derived from a conference held at the University of Tübingen. The book discusses theoretical reflections on terms and concepts related to narrative ambiguity, examining a range of narrative forms from classical to modern texts, including drama, poetry, and film. The contributions highlight the growing importance of ambiguity in literary studies and its potential to bridge various disciplines. The work is geared towards scholars in literary and linguistic fields, aiming to advance theory-building by analyzing ambiguity as a cross-cutting phenomenon in narrative studies. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Editors’ Preface

Contents

I Introduction

Foreword – Why Ambiguity and Narratology?

Ambiguous Narration – Narrative Ambiguity: Theoretical Reflections on Terms and Concepts

II ‘Text’ and ‘Text’-Producers

Beyond the Text: The Performative Mediality of Ovid’s Metamorphoses

The Author’s Speech: Empirical Perspectives on Speaker Attribution in Narrative Fiction

III ‘Story’ and Narrative Devices

Time and Ambiguity: Aesthetic Temporalities and the Ambiguity of Event in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre oder die Entsagenden

Poisonous Rumours: Creating Ambiguity in Death-Scenes in Tacitus’ Annals

IV ‘Fabula’ and the Narrative Content of Fictional Worlds

Visual Narration and Ambiguity: Two Case Studies

It Might Be Not Impossible: Negation, Ambiguity and the Role of the Narrator in Early-Modern Utopian Narrations

Facing The Other: Ambiguous Story Worlds in the Fiction of Susanna Clarke

V Narration and Communication

Ipse Dixit: (Dis)Ambiguating Quotations in Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars

‘If Anyone Among this People …’: Ambiguity and Multiple Addressing in Latin Literature (Plautus, Catullus, Ovid, Thomas Morus)

List of Authors

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ISBN:

9783111502618

3111502619

OCLC:

1463285143