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My Narratology. An Interview with Peter Hühn
Full text linkIn this interview, Peter Hühn reflects upon his narratological interest in the nexus between narrative and poetry, his favourite narratological studies, and the value of narrative research
Shaping Memory Through Lyric Narration. The Specificity and Scope of Noun Phrases in the Depiction of Past Events
Full text linkThe article fleshes out the concept of lyric narration in the depiction of memories by suggesting that Ronald W. Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar offers a helpful framework for understanding how lyric narration operates on spatiality. Expanding from Werner Wolf’s (2005, 2020) idea of the lyric as a cognitive frame, the paper posits that lyricality may be fruitfully viewed as a quality of narrative texts, particularly in regard to portraying mental processes such as reminiscing. To argue for this view, the paper first outlines characteristics of lyric narration, as well as linguistic features that contribute to a sense that eventfulness is being backgrounded. Here, the discussion is inspired by Paul Simpson’s (2014) stylistically oriented and empirically tested model of narrative urgency, guided by the assumption that reflection on past events constitutes a lack of narrative urgency. Subsequently, since the narration of memories often involves a strong spatial element – the retrieval of autobiographical memories has been linked with scenes (Rubin et al. 2019) – the discussion zooms in on the role of spatially anchored noun phrases in narrated memories. In analysing several extracts from English-language narrative fiction, Langacker’s concepts of specificity and scope (2008, 55–56, 62–63) are employed to explore how noun phrases contribute granularity to memories but also suggest crucial conceptual connections
Diskursive Wortlosigkeit. Michael Niehaus erkundet die spezifischen Voraussetzungen und Möglichkeiten eines Erzählens ohne Worte in verschiedenen Medien
Full text linkRezension zu Michael Niehaus: Erzählen ohne Worte. Eine Erkundung. Hagen: Hagen UP/ Georg Olms Verlag 2022 (= Schriften zur Literatur- und Medienwissenschaft, Bd.5), 439 S. EUR 39,80. ISBN 9783487162003
Als wir noch unter Bäumen saßen … Han Byung-Chuls ambivalente Kulturkritik der Gegenwart
Full text linkRezension zu: Byung-Chul, Han: Die Krise der Narration. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2023 (= Fröhliche Wissenschaft 217). 100 S. EUR 12,-. ISBN 978-3-7518-0564-
Emotionsausdruck und thematisches Wiederholungsverfahren in narrativen Interviews
Full text linkOur contribution builds upon prior linguistic research into emotional expression, and specifically into the role of prosodic elements. It makes use of a corpus of autobiographical narrative interviews – known as the Israelkorpus – conducted by Anne Betten and her collaborators with Jewish migrants who escaped from German-speaking regions of Central Europe to Palestine / Israel during the Nazi era. Given that the recounting of traumatic events often exhibits circular-repetitive and fragmented speech patterns, we complement and enrich the study of the prosodic dimension by analyzing the role of repetition at the textual level. The paper’s main objective is thus to explore the relationship between emotional expression and thematic repetitions. Firstly, we detect recurring themes that appear like leitmotifs across five interviews with the same speaker, Ari Rath; we then examine more closely how such a circular speech procedure affects the emotional potential of the latest narrative in the sequence. Finally, we focus on the expression of emotions to determine whether thematic repetitions bring about similar prosodic patterns
From Feelings to Text. Models of Discursive Arrangement in the History of Emotions
Full text linkEmotions have become an important field of study in historical research. Looking at a few works held as important in this area, this article investigates the issue of order, that is, of the way historians of feelings organize the material they have selected. The texts in my corpus display two main models. First, arranging the data synchronically (e.g., Sanders, Envy and Jealousy in Classical Athens), they take the form of thematic tableaux accounting for the state of one or a set of emotions at a specific time and in a specific geographical area. Second, arranging the data diachronically (e.g., Reddy, The Navigation of Feeling), they take the form of stage narratives, that is, of narratives that proceed not from event to event, but from phase to phase. Whatever the model selected might be, these texts pose questions frequently asked in the epistemology of history. Are the models found in the data or constructed? If they are constructed, are historians free to go about that construction as they please? Debating the work of Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen and postnarrativist theorists of history for whom these questions are obsolete, the article argues that they in fact are still worth posing. A distinction, however, must be made between verifiability and acceptability, as only acceptability can be productively discussed at the level of the whole text
Ways of Recounting the Past Across Genres and Media
Full text linkRezension zu: Berger, Stefan / Brauch, Nicola / Lorenz, Chris: Analysing Historical Narratives. On Academic, Popular and Educational Framings of the Past. New York, NY / Oxford: Berghahn, 2021. 356 pp. USD 145.00. ISBN 978-1-80073-046-
The Shape of Things to Come. An Interview with Monika Fludernik
Full text linkIn April 2024, Monika Fludernik was awarded the Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. To mark the occasion, we invited her for an interview in which she talks about her memories of studying under Franz K. Stanzel, her career as a professor of English Literature in Germany, and the future of narratology
Postromantische Liebe und Poetik der Vagheit. Zur Neucodierung von Emotionen in Leif Randts Schimmernder Dunst über CobyCounty und Planet Magnon
Full text linkDiverging from the pathos of strong feelings commonly embraced by literary tradition, contemporary author Leif Randt’s writing is concerned with balancing emotions. In his two novels Schimmernder Dunst über CobyCounty (2011) and Planet Magnon (2015), he develops a post-romantic discourse on love that counters the notion of passionate love (Niklas Luhmann) with the theory of PostPragmaticJoy. According to this theory, the failure of love is no longer a catastrophe, but an opportunity for something new. At the same time, Leif Randt’s literature is characterized by a poetics of vagueness, leaving many aspects within his novels unclear. The article explores the connection between the discourse of post-romanticism and the mode of vagueness and shows how Randt initiates a new coding of emotions while leaving their consequences in limbo
Logik der erzählten Welten. Cornelia Pierstorffs ‚Ontologische Narratologie‘ zeigt an Wilhelm Raabe, warum Theorien narrativer Welten nicht auf Überlegungen zu Erzählakt und Rhetorik verzichten sollten
Full text linkRezension zu: Pierstorff, Cornelia: Ontologische Narratologie. Welt erzählen bei Wilhelm Raabe. Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter, 2022 (= Studien zur deutschen Literatur, 229). 507 S. EUR 99,95. ISBN 978311077827