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Die Erfindung der Zukunft.: Vergangene und gegenwärtige Zukünfte ‚um‘ 1800 und 1900
Full text linkMercier’s L’An 2440, published in 1770, marks the beginning of a new Science-Fiction narrative which fundamentally altered the previous order of past, present and future as metaphysically determined temporal dimensions. Its novelty derives from a complex narrative superposition of space and time, forerunning the epistemological shift ‘around’ 1800 by temporalizing space and spatializing time simultaneously. In Mercier’s futuristic fiction past, present and future no longer evolve chronologically, but begin to merge into a relative order of time in which the future is no longer ahead of us but multiplies into a double-folded concept of past and present futures. Paralleled only much later by H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine, published in 1895, Mercier’s novel thus provides a striking example for the conceptual faculties of literary fiction in general, as well as a special opportunity to reflect on the modern question of how to narrate time in times of temporal relativity
The Art of Comic Reportage
Full text linkThis essay offers a comparative and narratologically-informed close reading of four recent comic reportages from refugee camps around the world. The short accounts by Lucas Wild, Damien Glez, Reinhard Kleist, and Didier Kassaï showcase a diverse set of comics journalism with revealing similarities and differences. Focusing on the concepts of immediacy and mediatedness, I show how the reportages use the multimodal affordances of comics to elicit witnessing or meta-reflection effects, sometimes even summoning both in a single act of representation. In particular, I analyze intrusive vs. unobtrusive narrators and monstrators, respectively, as well as the function of portraits and interviews for the narratives. Although the four reportages contrast in the authors’ inclination to more obvious vs. veiled mediation and the different liberties taken to dramatize second-hand knowledge, they all complicate dichotomies such as subjectivity / objectivity, journalism / art, and immersion / reflection as they waver between and blend narrative strategies. Thus, these works present various possibilities of how journalistically-legitimized comic art looks today
Investigating Interviews with Jewish Emigrants: A Collection of Explorations into the Emotional and Narrative Dimension of Texts from the Israel Corpus
Full text linkSimona Leonardi / Eva-Maria Thüne / Anne Betten (Eds.): Emotionsausdruck und Erzählstrategien in narrativen Interviews. Analysen zu Gesprächsaufnahmen mit jüdischen Emigranten. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2016. 388 pp. EUR 49,80. ISBN: 978-3-8260-5722-
Die Kehrseite des Wissens Körperarbeit am Text – und was sie für die Narratologie bedeutet
Full text linkWhen toddlers and younger children first encounter stories, they evince a strong tendency to act them out. They use role play and toys for enactment and thereby to experience the dynamics of a storyline, to pursue possible variations, to embody divergent perspectives, to learn about characters and their attitudes, and to cope with the narrated situations. In analogy with Lev Vygotsky’s (1962) basic insight that thinking is to be considered as an interiorized form of spoken language, it may accordingly be argued that the mental imagery which readers experience in following a narrative is (at least partially) to be understood as an interiorized form of playful enactment. Drawing on insights of the cognitive sciences, phenomenology and research on embodiment, this article pursues this hypothesis and takes a few first steps towards an enactivist perspective on literary narrative. In doing so, embodied knowledge – as opposed to propositional knowledge – will be the main issue
„Ich habe im Sommer des Jahres 1838 eine Reihe von Beobachtungen angestellt“: Naturwissenschaftliches Erzählen im frühen 19. Jahrhundert
Full text linkThis paper explores the possibilities of a historical narratology of the life sciences – by analysing exemplary articles of two leading scientific journals of 19th century Germany. Strikingly, the old tradition of constituting scientific knowledge through first-person narrative persists into the early 19th century, although scientists develop empirical and experimental methods and abandon philosophical speculation as well as natural history. The paper argues that in the fields of geol-ogy, comparative anatomy and embryology, nature itself becomes processual and is therefore highly suitable for sequential representation; even decades before Darwin’s epoch-making publication. Thus, two major functions can be attributed to homodiegetic narration: firstly, event sequencing within early experimental contexts reduces contingencies and produces coherent lines of thought. Secondly, the truth of the represented knowledge is authenticated by a first-person narrator who has witnessed everything with his own eyes. Hence, the explanatory and the persuasive function of epistemological narration are closely interlinked
Narratology Between Transmediality and Medium-Specificity
Full text linkJan-Noël Thon: Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture. Lin-coln / London: University of Nebraska Press 2016 (= Frontiers of Narrative Series). 558 pp. USD 60.00. ISBN 978-0-8032-7720-
Narrative Rezeptionsangebote: Markus Engelns’ Spielen und Erzählen
Full text linkMarkus Engelns: Spielen und Erzählen. Computerspiele und die Ebenen ihrer Realisierungen. Heidelberg: Synchron 2014 (= DISKURSIVITÄTEN. Literatur. Kultur. Medien, Bd. 19). 412 S. EUR (D) 39,80. ISBN 978-3-939381-73-
Erzählungen als Handlungsbeschreibungen: Narrative Erklärungen politischer Ordnungen am Beispiel der Vertragstheorie
Full text linkThis article discusses narrative explanations in philosophy, and turns on the central thesis that narrative explanation in philosophy works primarily by describing human action. The question of how description of this kind succeeds leads us to that of how discrete elements can be integrated to form an understandable and convincing whole story. In accordance with my main thesis, I draw on the theory of narrative research as well as on the theory of action. The latter points to three ways of describing human action: causal, teleological and holistic descriptions. From this typology I deduce a list of narrative explanations and suggest some reasons for why we should prefer the holistic approach. In the final paragraph I illustrate my argument with the example of social contract theory, which shows how the different types of narrative explanation work
Shared Experience: Alan Palmer Explores Social Minds
Full text linkAlan Palmer: Social Minds in the Novel. Columbus, OH: Ohio State UP 2010. (= Theory and Interpretation of Narrative). 220 pp. USD 49,95. ISBN 978-0-8142-1141-0 “Little narratological work has been done on social minds in the novel” (45). Narratives detail the multifarious ways in which individual characters fare while entangled in social scenarios. The emphasis in scholarly treatments has over-whelmingly been on the first part of this equation, i.e. single protagonists. The representation of shared experience, as a genuine phenomenon in its own right, has been largely ignored by narratologists. Alan Palmer’s Social Minds in the Novel is thus a timely investigation into, and mapping of, what he also refers to as intermental thought
Schaulaufen der amerikanischen Narratologie: Grundkonzepte der Erzähltheorie im direkten Vergleich
Full text linkDavid Herman, James Phelan, Peter J. Rabinowitz, Brian Richardson, Robyn Warhol: Narrative Theory. Core Concepts and Critical Debate. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press 2012 (= Theory and Interpretation of Narrative, ohne Nummer). 282 + XIV S. EUR 31,99 (Taschenbuch). ISBN 978-0-8142-5184-3 Wenn es so etwas wie eine offene amerikanische Meisterschaft der Narratologie gäbe, dann wäre die Gemeinschaftsproduktion von David Herman, James Phelan, Peter Rabinowitz, Brian Richardson und Robyn Warhol das Schaulaufen der Medaillenträger – auch wenn Pflicht und Kür ebenfalls ihren Platz in dieser beeindruckenden Publikation haben