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Die Episode als Erzähl- und Lebensform
Get PDFTagungsbericht zur internationalen DFG-Tagung „Glück am Ende? Episodisches Erzählen in Mittelalter und Gegenwart“, Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg, 3.-5.6.201
Refiguring Cognitive Narratology: Digital Literature and Representations of the Mind in David Ciccoricco’s Refiguring Minds
Get PDFDavid Ciccoricco: Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 2015 (= Frontiers of Narrative Series). 317 pp. USD 55.00. ISBN 978-0-8032-4837-
Die narrative Bewältigung von Krisen: Paul A. Cohens Ausführungen zur narrativen Macht des kollektiven Gedächtnisses in historischen Krisensituationen
Get PDFPaul A. Cohen: History and Popular Memory. The Power of Story in Moments of Crisis. New York: Columbia University Press 2014. 279 S. GBP 50.00. ISBN 978-0-231-53729-
Geschichten ohne Ende: Präsentationsstrategien narrativierter Krankheitserfahrungen
Get PDFIllness narratives feature different strategies of making narrative sense out of a contingent experience. Such strategies have a lineage that goes back to narrative patterns known in medieval literature, and which retain validity in describing recent narrative attempts to generate meaning. This article argues that narrative sense is the product of a process of construction which is formed not solely by the narrator him- or herself, but is rather the result of a cooperative practice between narrator and listener or interviewer respectively. In support of this perspective, we draw on medieval literature and aspects of historical narratology to examine interviews with people suffering from epilepsy and inflammatory bowel disease. The main focus lies on the narrative patterns deployed by the narrators to report on their experiences with illness, as well as on the strategies of presentation chosen by the interviewers and scientists who summarize those interviews and present them in so-called mystories on the homepage http://www.krankheitserfahrungen.d
You and I, Past and Present: Cognitive Processing of Perspective
Get PDFThis article describes an experiment investigating the relationship between deictic elements of focalisation and readers’ perspective-taking within imaginative conceptualisations of a fictional narrative scene. The text variables tested here are whether the narrative is written in the first or second person, and whether the narrative is written in the present or past tense. The experiment tests the existence and nature of a relationship between these person and temporal deictic elements of focalisation and the likelihood of a reader’s visual perceptual identification with the position of a narrator, narrator-character and / or character focaliser within a fictional scene. Within the experiment, participants read one of four variants of a short fictional text identical but for the person or tense employed in the narration. Results of the experiment suggest that person and temporal deixis both impact upon conceptual perspective-taking. Specifically, the results corroborate predictions that the present tense is more likely than the past tense to elicit readerly conceptual identification with a narrator, narrator-character or character focaliser. Perhaps more surprisingly, however, the results also suggest that there is no significant difference between first and second person narration with respect to readers’ reported conceptual identification with the viewpoint of the narrator, narrator-character or character focaliser designated by that pronoun
Connecting Narrative Worlds
Get PDFReport on the 6th International Conference for Interactive Digital Storytelling: “Connecting Narrative Worlds”, Bahçeşehir University Istanbul, November 6-9, 201
Journalistische Wirklichkeitserzählungen und fotografische Bilder
Get PDFPhotos are, like texts, a core means of representation in print as well as in online-journalism. Photos can already indicate a narration. Because of this fact they can be combined with texts to develop complex narrative structures. However, problems arise when there are no photos available of the event itself. In these cases metonymic and metaphoric relations between text and photo are established and used. Looking at the story (histoire), the following essay argues that in the first case narrative structures are established bottom-up and in the second case top-down. Considering the level of discourse, metonymic text-photo relations show an affinity to the communicative act of reporting, whereas meta¬phoric relations lean towards the communicative act of storytelling
Die journalistische Nachricht - eine veraltete Form des Erzählens?: Thesen zur Funktion der Erzählinstanz in journalistischen Texten
Get PDFConsidering journalistic news as narratives makes it easier to understand the problems of reception that are specific to this field. This article is focused on the issue of the narrator, who normally is not visible in the news. This can create the impression of more objectivity, such as in the realistic novels of the 19th century. However, such a naive understanding of objectivity is out of date and with regard to democratic dialogue not valid. The article shows examples of how lack of coherence and a seemingly objective distancing language are often connected with the invisible narrative agent in the news. Online journalism shows first approaches to a more visible narrative authority in the news. Such a mode of narrative is easier to understand and thus addresses more empowered citizens. This seems to show how news can be better told, while neutrality can be maintained and transparency increased
