University of Wuppertal
Elektronische Veröffentlichungen der Universitätsbibliothek WuppertalNot a member yet
410 research outputs found
Sort by
Zwischen Fakt und Fiktion: Esther Kraus entwickelt eine typologische Systematisierung hybrider autobiographischer Texte
Get PDFEsther Kraus: Faktualität und Fiktionalität in autobiographischen Texten des 20. Jahr¬hunderts. Marburg: Tectum 2013. 519 S. EUR 34,95. ISBN 978-3-8288-3247-
Beyond “Mimetic Reductionism”: Exploring Unnatural Narratology
Get PDFJan Alber / Henrik Skov Nielsen / Brian Richardson (Eds.): A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative. Columbus: Ohio State University Press 2013. Pp. 234. GBP 63.95 (cloth), GBP 14.95 (cd). ISBN 978-0-8142-1228-8 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-8142-9330-0 (cd
Lüge, Täuschung und Verwirrung: Unzuverlässiges und ‚verstörendes Erzählen‘ in Literatur und Film
Get PDFMy contribution aims to modify current concepts of unreliable narration in lite-rature and film. Although in film studies it is more common to talk of mind-game movies, this notion is not synonymous with unreliable narration: mind-game movies are films which question (the perception of) reality through the deployment of various specific ambiguities, whereas unreliable narration excludes – in my definition – the ambiguity by using an unexpected plot twist. In order to account for all narrative techniques which produce strange effects and call attention to themselves, I introduce the new concept of perturbatory narration. Conceived of as a transmedial and transgeneric mode of narration, this umbrella term includes the interplay of unreliable and paradoxical narration (i.e. metalepsis, certain forms of mise en abyme, self-begetting novels, Möbius strips etc.), explicit metafiction as well as Fantastic Narration. Each of these disturbs the reader’s or viewer’s process of orientation within the fictional world, which can result in either stronger immersion or, on the contrary, a breach of the aesthetic illusion. Based on a typology of unreliable narration, my analysis of three films of the new Argentine cinema aims to show this typology’s validity, but also its limits: elements of the paradoxical and fantastic which are intertwined with the unreliable narration point to the necessity of a new, broader narratological concept, one which could then be described as perturbatory narration
“The Poet, he nothing affirms, and therefore never lieth”?: An analysis of editorial fiction
Get PDFIs the editorial fiction a possible challenge to Sir Philip Sidney’s famous defence of the poets? Predicated on an assertion-based definition of lying, this paper dis-cusses two historically consecutive versions of this phenomenon: A closer analysis of Gérard Genette’s category of the disavowing authentic authorial preface reveals that Genette’s arguments cannot defend editorial fictions written by ‘author-editors’ against accusations of lying. Rather, this first version of editorial fictions occasionally embodies lies for which the authors are to be held accountable. Editorial fictions written by ‘character-editors’, in contrast, do not meet the conditions of the assertion-based account of lying with the result that, in this case, neither the author nor the ‘character-editor’ can be accused of lying
Auf weitem Feld: Narration als Ansatzpunkt multidisziplinärer Religionsforschung
Get PDFGabriela Brahier / Dirk Johannsen (Hg.): Konstruktionsgeschichten. Narrations-bezogene Ansätze in der Religionsforschung. Würzburg: Ergon 2013 (= Diskurs Religion. Beiträge zur Religionsgeschichte und religiösen Zeitgeschichte, Bd. 2). 428 S. EUR 58,00. ISBN 978-89913-945-
Prolegomena zu einer historischen Raumnarratologie am Beispiel von drei autodiegetisch erzählten Romanen
Get PDFAfter the spatial turn, questions concerning the representative and poietic function of literary spaces have arisen – questions which can only be answered by means of contextual and intertextual readings. Spatial concepts of different eras must be compared with each other in order to move toward a diachronic, and hence ‘postclassical’, narratology of space. This article takes an initial step in this direction: The spatial concepts of three autodiegetic novels – Der Abentheuerliche Simplicissimus, Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, and Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge – are analyzed with Genetteʼs categories; and these analyses are expanded upon using parameters such as degree of heteroreferentiality, modes of narrating space, and spatial symbols. Based on these results, the article concludes with some continuative thoughts on a historical narratology of space
Interdisziplinarität als Anspruch und in Wirklichkeit Narratologische Institutionen zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts
Get PDFWissenschaftliche Institutionen stellen Organisationsstrukturen der Wissensreproduktion und -produktion dar. Innerhalb dieser Strukturen können sie Wissenschaftlern Möglichkeiten des Forschens bieten. Im Idealfall wird deren Forschung institutionell gefördert durch das Bereitstellen von organisatorischen (Personal, Räumen), wissensvermittelnden (Bibliographien, Bibliotheken, Datenbanken), kommunikativen (Tagungen, Diskussionsforen, Vorträge) und nicht zuletzt von finanziellen Mitteln (Stipendien, Sachbeihilfen). Nicht immer sind diese Ressourcen im gleichen Maß vorhanden. Ziel unseres Aufsatzes ist es, die Strukturen einiger der derzeit wichtigsten narratologischen Institutionen vorzustellen. Wir werden die nordamerikanische (Kanada und USA) und Teile der der europäischen Forschungslandschaft (Dänemark Deutschland, Frank-reich, Großbritannien) in den Blick nehmen, wobei einen Schwerpunkt die deutschen Institutionen bilden. Innerhalb der einzelnen Kapitel behandeln wir die Institutionen in einer chronologischen Reihenfolge, die sich an ihrem Gründungszeitpunkt orientiert. Ein alphabetisches Verzeichnis aller von uns behandelten narratologischen Institutionen inklusive der dazugehörigen URLs haben wir am Ende des Aufsatzes zusammengestellt.This contribution provides a survey of narratological institutions in Europe and North America. The term “narratological institution” is taken to mean an or-ganization that is devoted to supporting research in narratological matters by supplying researchers with informational structures such as web resources, the organization of workshops and conferences, newsletters and so on. Most atten-tion is paid to German institutions, not because we consider them the most im-portant ones, but simply because we know them better than others. We con-clude by a general remark about the self-characterization of these projects that share an emphasis on transdisciplinary orientation
Linguistic and Cultural Specifics of Mind-Wandering in Ivan Turgenev’s Asya
Get PDFIn this article I argue that the choice of language and specific cultural contexts play an important role for literary representations of mind-wandering. While this has been pointed out before in both mind-wandering research and Cog-nitive Literary Studies (CLS), I enhance this thesis in two directions, focusing on Ivan Turgenev’s short narrative Asya (1858). After a brief discussion of the role of linguistic contexts in CLS, I will first give a detailed account of the lin-guistic and cultural specificities that influence the representation of mind-wandering in Russian literary texts like Asya. As I will show, episodes of mind-wandering in this text rely on linguistic characteristics and cultural contexts of Russian language and literature that can hardly be conveyed in translation. Secondly, I suggest that the real challenge for culturally diverse CLS research lies in discerning the fine line between a language’s specific linguistic proper-ties and common features of literary representations of mind wandering, as Asya contains both specific Russian and more general features of mind-wandering
Attention and Mind-Wandering in Contemporary German Children’s and Young Adult Metafiction
Get PDFIn this article, we draw upon cognitive sciences, narratology, and media studies to investigate the interrelation between metafiction, attention, and mind-wandering in two works of German children’s and young adult metafiction: Michael Ende’s Die unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story) from 1979 and Cornelia Funke’s Tintenherz (Inkheart) published in 2003. Both works are attention narratives in that they employ textual strategies such as foregrounding, metalepsis, narratorial commentary, or intermedial references to guide their readers’ attention and point them to aspects of their mediality. Moreover, we explore metafiction’s effects on mind-wandering, that is, moments in which our minds stray from the here and now to engage in introspective thought and imagination. We contend that metafiction, due to its high attentional demands, can reduce the overall frequency and duration of mind-wandering, but that it can also, on the other hand, facilitate text-related mind-wandering, as-sociated with productive, on-task reflections and meta-awareness