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Sustainability and Narrative: Is Equilibrium Tellable?
Get PDFThis essay wants to look at the strategies through which sustainability has been and can be narrativized. When thinking about the future today, sustainability is certainly one of the most prominent new concepts and one that is becoming more ubiquitous every day. But from a narratological perspective, there seems to be an interesting paradox: While narrative is essentially and fundamentally about change (events as building blocks of narrative are, after all, usually defined as state changes), about a disturbance of balance and ‘things falling apart,’ sustainability is equally fundamentally about persistent equilibrium, the absence of linear change (such as growth at the cost of depletion or degeneration). Where the ideal of narrative is progression, the ideal of sustainability is a higher form of stasis. An abstract look at the concept of sustainability on the one side, and the properties and affordances of narrative and narrativity on the other, will investigate whether the two agree or create some kind of friction, and if so, in how far emerging narrative genres adhere to such theoretical limitations
Subjectivity and Comics: Journalism in the French Magazine XXI. Discrepancy between Paratexts and Texts
Get PDFComics journalism is a form of narrative journalism, but also plays a part in a much wider movement – the hybridization of cultural products – and the increasing blurring of the boundaries between fact and fiction. It presents itself as a way to inject new life into a profession currently in crisis by resurrecting reporter subjectivity. Based on a corpus from the magazine XXI, this article analyses how the alleged subjectivity is expressed in the comics journalism paratext and how it is translated into the cartoon itself – in both its graphic and its textual dimensions. One of the most interesting results is the contrast between the two parts of the analysis: while the paratext almost systematically emphasizes the authors’ personal involvement, the authors make their presence fully known in slightly fewer than half of the cartoons analysed
Episodisches Erzählen: Erzählen in Episoden Medientheoretische Überlegungen zur Systematik, Typologie und Historisierung
Get PDFThe article discusses episodic storytelling in narratological terms. The focus lies on those cases of episodic storytelling in which a linear story is split into episodic entities by means of narrative and/or media-related caesurae. This episodic storytelling – we might speak of an episodic storytelling in a narrow, narratological sense – is systematically defined by characteristic techniques of narrative closure. It comprises two subtypes, a ‘storytelling in episodes’ versus a ‘proper episodic storytelling’, which – all interferences set aside – differ with respect to the stronger or weaker narrative autonomy of the individual episode. Both subtypes seem to have had their own literary history at least since the European Middle Ages. Throughout the article, careful attention is given to the (historically variable) media-related mechanisms which facilitate, regulate and restrict episodic storytelling
Die Darstellung Jesu im Markusevangelium als Prüfstein des narrative criticism: Auf dem Weg zu einer erzähltheoretischen Christologie
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Pragmatically Disentangling You. Sandrine Sorlin’s Stylistics of ‘You’
Get PDFReview of: Sandrine Sorlin: The Stylistics of “You”. Second-Person Pronoun and its Pragmatic Effects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2022. 233 pp. GBP 85.00. ISBN 978-1-108-83302-
