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Narrating the Lived Reality of Illness in Comics and Literature.: Research by the PathoGraphics Team at Freie Universität Berlin
Get PDFNarrating the Lived Reality of Illness in Comics and Literature. Research by the PathoGraphics Team at Freie Universität Berli
Drehbuchnarratologie.: Jan Heiner Gebhardts Erschließung eines Analysesets für einen fiktionalen ‚Gebrauchstext‘
Get PDFJan Heiner Gebhardt (2016): Das Drehbuch als fiktionaler Erzähltext. amburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač 2016 (= NARRARE – Interdisziplinäre, intermediale und transgenerische Schriftenreihe zur Narratologie 4). 186 S. EUR 79,80. ISBN 978-3-830-09046-
Gott erzählen in biblischen Schriften des Alten Testaments
Get PDFIn the Bible, God is one of many characters who is subject to the same principles of narrative modelling as the others. At the same time, however, God differs from other characters with regard to his transtextual attendance and the authority of his voice, which in turn influences the authority of the narrator’s voice. Biblical prophecy is conceptualized as a mediating voice between God and humans. In the narrative world, prophecy plays an important role in providing access to an otherwise inaccessible God. Moses, as the paradigm of biblical prophecy, is the model of a prophetic character who receives his own text (the Book of Moses). As a result, he becomes the model of an implied author who is able to create the character of God, while subjecting himself to the authority of this character
Authoring the Narrative Self in Dementia Care.: A Bakhtinian Perspective
Get PDFThis article examines the co-creation of narrative self in dementia care and the therapist’s expertise in the process. Applying Bakhtin’s theory of dialogue as the analytical framework, videotaped data were collected through interviews with an experienced occupational therapist as well as direct observation of his care sessions with two women with Alzheimer’s disease in a Japanese nursing home, before they were qualitatively analysed. The result indicated that the therapist created three kinds of voices: the voice of the person’s self, the voices of the actual others, and the voices of the imagined others towards the person. The women actively responded to the voices, jointly created possible and positive selves, and were able to achieve therapeutic activities. As a polyphonic author, the therapist intentionally produced the voices for therapeutic engagement thereby giving appropriate meaning to the therapy, building relationships with others, and expressing the persons’ hope for the therapy, for others, and for themselves
Autobiographische Krankheitserzählungen in der Gegenwartsliteratur: Siri Hustvedt, Paul Kalanithi, Verena Stefan
Get PDFIllness requires narration: it fulfills a crucial role in the cooperation between patient and doctor, is demanded by one’s social environment, and emerges in the identity work triggered by a medical diagnosis (which in itself constitutes a first narrative model for the ill person to accept, rework or reject). This article examines how contemporary illness narratives recount such communication and how they reflect on the possibilities and limits of narration. It triangulates three life writing texts: Verena Stefan’s Fremdschläfer (2007) about the Swiss-German author’s own experience of breast cancer, Siri Hustvedt’s The Shaking Woman or a History of my Nerves (2010), describing the novelist’s quest for knowledge about the ambiguous shaking she displays, and Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air (2016), which focuses on the author’s role reversal (from doctor to patient) and the approach of his death from lung cancer. Narrative patterns and role models are being traced here; questions about voice and agency appear central in each text. What knowledge does such contemporary life writing hold, and what does it have to say about the dominant conceptualisations of states of health and illness
‚Entdeckungsgeschichten‘ der Quantenphysik: Zur narratologischen Erforschung einer naturwissenschaftlichen Erzählform
Get PDFScholars examining the significance of narration in the natural sciences currently face a striking research discrepancy: On the one hand, there is broad agreement that narrating plays a crucial role in the representation, popularization and even in the production of scientific knowledge. On the other hand, only a few case studies to date have discussed the specific narrative techniques employed in discourses or genres of the natural sciences and their function. Hence, this article aims to draw attention to the particular features of a distinctive narrative form produced by quantum physicists in the first half of the 20th century: the ‘narrative of discovery’. Pioneering physicists such as Max Planck or Werner Heisenberg unfold the complicated paths to their respective major discoveries much as a gripping story, which follows numerous blind alleys and failures in extensive scientific-technical detail. The high degree of both narrativity and ‘scientificality’ apparent in these narratives of discovery indicates, as the article argues, that the physicists strove to construct the genesis of their groundbreaking discoveries in a narrative way in order to achieve a deeper understanding of the discovery itself
Das andere Dritte: Erkundungen zwischen Bild und Text
Get PDFAlexander Honold / Ralf Simon (Hg.): Das erzählende und das erzählte Bild. München: Wilhelm Fink 2010 (= eikones). 499 S. EUR 61,00. ISBN 978-3-7705-5012-
Narratology beyond the Human
Get PDFThis essay uses Lauren Groff’s 2011 short story “Above and Below” to explore aspects of a narratology beyond the human, considering how ideas developed by scholars of narrative bear on questions about the nature and scope of human-animal relationships in the larger biosphere. Bringing Groff’s text into dialogue with the concept of “self-narratives” as developed by Kenneth J. Gergen and Mary M. Gergen, anthropological research on the ontologies projected by the members of different cultures, and ideas from literary narratology, I discuss how the structure and narration of Groff’s story reveal a fault line between two competing ontologies in the culture of modernity, one parsimonious and the other prolific when it comes to allocating possibilities for selfhood across species lines. More generally, in addition to illuminating how a given self-narrative locates the human agent in a transspecies constellation of selves, a narratology beyond the human can assist with the construction of new, more sustainable individual and collective self-narratives that situate the self within wider webs of creatural life
Das vergessene Erbe: Zur Konzeption einer Geschichte der Erzähltheorie
Get PDFNarratology is often considered to be an invention of the 20th century. This is based on the assumption that the focus of poetic theory prior to narratology was limited to specific genres, whereas narratology takes ‘narration’ as a transgeneric phenomenon. In contrast, this essay aims to show that, since the late 18th century, genre theory has considered narration a key feature of all epic forms and paved the way for a systematic discussion of narratological subjects. Against this backdrop, the article asks whether there is continuity in how narrative structures are conceptualized. The essay argues for a distinction between constant research issues and context-specific responses in the historiography of narratological concepts. In order to illustrate this approach, the article concludes with a short overview on the history of the concept of narrator