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The Facts of Life before God and the Prophetic Peculiarity: Three Illness Narratives of the Hebrew Bible
Get PDFThe Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) is a canonical text for many including its portrayals of illness. This article explores the narrative representation of illness in three longer narratives in the Hebrew Bible by means of a close reading. The narratives are all legends of some sort and involve terminal or impossible illnesses and the prophet. In 2 Kings 4 the story revolves around illness as an enigma and involves the motifs of hospitality, responsibility, and empowerment in an ever expanding plot. In 2 Kings 5 leprosy as an incurable disease stands at the center and the story develops through several contrasting motifs including greatness, simplicity, and humility. In 2 Kings 20/Isaiah 38 illness is a death warrant leading to bitterness, and the story probes the necessity and honesty of prayer. Two common traits in the narratives are prayer and argument as a response to illness, and the status of the prophet as a health care consultant
Erfahrungswissen Überlegungen zu einer narrativen Form von Wissen in Prosaerzählsammlungen der Frühen Neuzeit
Get PDFLiterary short texts of the Early Modern Period, like fables, tales and Merry tales, are meant to be simple forms of teaching, divided as they often are into two parts: narratio and moralisatio. The moralisatio as a form of propositionally structured knowledge has thereby been seen as the essential part which provides exemplary lessons to the reader. The narratio on the other hand, has been perceived to have merely an illustrative function subordinated to this didactic intention, or works as a form of entertainment. In contrast to this prevailing opinion, and following up on sociological studies on experience, this article argues that narration itself can be described as a form of knowledge of experiences. This form of knowledge focuses on concrete situations, subjectivity, temporal sequences and the inconclusiveness of findings, and can therefore also point out possibilities and limits of the propositional form of knowledge. These systematic considerations will be illustrated with reference to a so-called ‘Prosaerzählsammlung’ of the 16th century, the Wegkürzer (1557) by Martin Montanus
Difficult Empathy: The Effect of Narrative Perspective on Readers’ Engagement with a First-Person Narrator
Get PDFMany claims have been advanced about the effects of specific narrative strategies on readers’ engagement with characters, but the available evidence is still limited. One question in particular stands out in the current debate. Is first-person narrative more or less conducive to empathy and trust for the protagonist than third-person, internally focalized narrative? This essay tackles this question by examining the effect of narrative perspective on readers’ responses to a complex, and potentially unreliable, character. To this end, we conducted an experimental study with 76 Dutch high-school students. Contrary to our predictions, the manipulation of narrative perspective did not affect empathy for the character, but did affect trust. We suggest that the increase in trust in third-person narrative depends on the external narrator’s authority, which validates the perspective of the protagonist. The essay discusses these and other findings, combining experimental research with a qualitative analysis of readers’ comments on the character
Wie Nachrichten (Geschichten) erzählen.: Christoph Bietz’ Analyse telemedialer ‚Wirklichkeitskonstruktion‘
Get PDFChristoph Bietz: Die Geschichten der Nachrichten. Eine narratologische Analyse teleme¬dialer Wirklichkeitskonstruktion. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2013 (= WVT-Handbücher und Studien zur Medienkulturwissenschaft Bd. 8). 412 S. EUR 46,50. ISBN 978-3-86821-434-
Narratology and Classics.: A Transhistorical Approach
Get PDFIrene J. F. de Jong: Narratology and Classics. A Practical Guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014. Pp. 240. EUR 25.00. ISBN 978-0-1996-8870-
Eine Theorie des Erzählens außerhalb der Erzähltheorie: Zur Analyse des psychotherapeutischen „Narrativs“
Get PDFBrigitte Boothe: Das Narrativ. Biografisches Erzählen im psychotherapeutischen Prozess. Mit einem Geleitwort von Jörg Frommer. Stuttgart: Schattauer 2011. 260 S. EUR 36,99. ISBN 978-3-7945-2801-
House vs The Wire: Procedure and Complexity in Contemporary US Serial Television Drama
Get PDFOver the last decade, US serial television productions have garnered critical acclaim and academic attention for their complex and innovative narrative structure. Labeled Quality Television and “not TV” (promo slogan of the pay-TV channel HBO) to signal their cultural value over the presumably lowbrow standard television fare, they have preferably been compared to more reputable narrative forms, such as the novel. This paper picks up on Mittell’s suggestion to read The Wire, one of contemporary television’s arguably most complex productions, as a procedural instead. This genre of television is characterized by a highly formulaic structure, resolving a profession-specific problem within each episode. The Wire’s episodes are neither formulaic nor self-contained. This paper compares The Wire to House, a typical, formulaic, contemporary procedural. It explores to what degree The Wire is, neverthe¬less, structured by comparable principles and how narrative theory can contribute to the analysis of serial plotting
