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Why We Need a Medieval Narratology: A Manifesto
Get PDFIn the wake of the growing interest in diachronic approaches and the historicizing of narratology, a medieval narratology is called for which systematically scrutinizes medieval forms and functions of narration. In the first part of the article, the problems of applying classical narratological theories to medieval literature are sketched, as well as the reasons for the relative invisibility of the narratological studies already conducted by medievalists. In the second part, the main parameters of a medieval narratology are outlined by means of selected sample analyses across a range of genres. A medieval narratology, it is argued, requires necessary shifts and modifications of existing theories, but also an open dialogue between the disciplines. Both narratologists and medievalists can profit from such an endeavor, which does not reject classical and post-classical theories. Rather, it is based on an informed understanding of the historical grounding of narrative forms and their place in the history of literature. The essay rounds off with a proposal of “Ten Theses for a Medieval Narratology”
An Anthology of Narrative Research: Molly Andrews, Corrine Squire, and Maria Tamboukou Present Their Second Volume of Doing Narrative
Get PDFMolly Andrews / Corrinne Squire / Maria Tamboukou (Eds.): Doing Narrative Research. Los Angeles / London / New Delhi / Singapore / Washington DC: Sage 2013. 270 pp. Paperback GBP 27.99, ISBN 978144625266
Figuren und Wissen: Neue Methoden und konventionelle Hermeneutik
Get PDFLiltih Jappe / Olav Krämer / Fabian Lampart (Hg.): Figurenwissen. Funktionen von Wissen bei der narrativen Figurendarstellung. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 2012 (= linguae & litterae Bd. 8). EUR 99,95. ISBN 978-3-11-022913-
Serialisierte Erzählung und kulturspezifische Pressenarrative: Die „Wulff-Affäre“ in der deutschen Presse
Get PDFThis paper addresses narrativity in press discourse from a postclassical and transdisciplinary perspective and seeks to describe dominant metanarratives in German journalistic culture. The corpus consists of all the press texts about the Wulff-scandal (that led to the resignation of the Bundespräsident in 2012). The paper defines the characteristics of narrativity in the press and presents the theory of French-speaking authors about press narration as a serialized macro-text with its own temporality. It proceeds to a close reading of the corpus and describes markers of narrativity, of seriality, of cohesion and of temporal organi-zation. The narration in the press is described as simultaneous, retrospective and prospective / performative. It appears that it is a kind of self-fulfilling narrative, organised in a teleological perspective with Wulff’s resignation as the only possi-ble resolution. In the underlying metanarrative, scandals appear as stages on the way to an exemplary democracy, in which the journalists have a central function, on the side of or against the politicians. The social group of journalists is de-scribed as a narrative community with its own narrative forms and culturally available plots, its own narrative memory, i.e. its own founding stories that are told again and again with an exemplary function, and with its own goals that are legitimated by the narratives
Can a Single Still Picture Tell a Story?: Definitions of Narrative and the Alleged Problem of Time with Single Still Pictures
Get PDFThat the same story can be told in different media is one of the fundamental claims of narratology. Claude Bremond (1964) famously listed verbal narrative, novels, theater, movies and ballet among potential vehicles for story. He thus prepared the ground for narratology’s future as a discipline engaged in narrative research across media, in principle including single still pictures. However, narratological research concerned with pictorial narrativity generally proceeds from the assumption that although single pictures may evoke or imply stories, they are unsuitable for storytelling in a strict narratological sense. Focusing on the key issue of temporality, this essay will show that a single still picture may indeed tell “a story proper” (Wolf 2003, 180) and can thus be regarded as a narrative, even according to a narrow definition
Zwischen Theorie und Praxis: Eine Einführung in die Narratologie im Spagat zwischen problemorientierter Theoriedarstellung und literaturwissenschaftlicher Textanalyse
Get PDFSilke Lahn / Jan Christoph Meister: Einführung in die Erzähltextanalyse. Unter Mitarbeit von Matthias Aumüller, Benjamin Biebuyck, Anja Burghardt, Jens Eder, Per Krogh Hansen, Peter Hühn und Felix Sprang. Stuttgart / Weimar: J.B. Metzler 2008. 311 S. EUR 19,95. ISBN 978-3-476-02226-4 Die große Menge narratologischer Einführungen ist ein deutliches Indiz für die eminente Bedeutung, die dem Erzählen derzeit zugeschrieben wird. Je mehr über dieses Phänomen geforscht wird, desto mehr Bedarf an Orientierung gibt es, die Einführungen zu geben versprechen. Der hier zu rezensierende Band möchte zugleich die narratologische Modellbildung vorstellen und Hilfestel¬lung für die Anwendung in der literaturwissenschaftlichen Praxis leisten. Es ist sein erklärtes Ziel, dem Leser „ein narratologisch fundiertes begriffliches und methodisches Instrumentarium an die Hand [zu] geben, mit dem die – größtenteils, aber nicht durchweg – vorinterpretative Erkundung und Beschreibung eines erzählenden Texts systematisch durchgeführt werden kann“ (S. IX). Im Vergleich zu anderen Einführungen liegt hier folglich ein deutlicher Fokus auch auf der pragmatischen Ebene, der sich vor allem in der lernerorien-tierten Aufarbeitung der vorgestellten Modelle widerspiegelt
More than One Thousand and One Nights. Framing Narratives within the Premodern Textual Production in Arabic and Adjacent Literary Traditions
Get PDFReport on the Conference “Framing Narratives: New Perspectives on Premodern Textual Production in Arabic,” Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), November 18–19, 202
New skills for new futures higher education guidance and counselling services in the United Kingdom: a country report of a study on "New skills for vocational guidance in higher education"
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