Current Trends in Narratology

✍ Scribed by Greta Olson (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 376
• Series: Narratologia; 27
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Current Trends in Narratology offers an overview of cutting-edge approaches to theories of storytelling. The introduction details how new emphases on cognitive processing, non-prose and multimedia narratives, and interdisciplinary approaches to narratology have altered how narration, narrative, and narrativity are understood. The volume also introduces a third post-classical direction of research ‑ comparative narratology ‑ and describes how developments in Germany, Israel, and France may be compared with Anglophone research. Leading international scholars including Monika Fludernik, Richard Gerrig, Ansgar Nünning, John Pier, Brian Richardson, Alan Palmer, and Werner Wolf describe not only their newest research but also how this work dovetails with larger narratological developments.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Part I Narrative and the Mind
Conscious and Unconscious Processes in Readers’ Narrative Experiences
(Mis)perceiving to Good Aesthetic and Cognitive Effect
The Mind beyond the Skin in Little Dorrit
The Category of ‘Person’ in Fiction: You and We Narrative-Multiplicity and Indeterminacy of Reference
Part II Transmedial, Transgeneric, and Interdisciplinary Narrative Study
Narratology and Media(lity): The Transmedial Expansion of a Literary Discipline and Possible Consequences
Endings in Drama and Performance: A Theoretical Model
The Performative Power of Narrative in Drama: On the Forms and Functions of Dramatic Storytelling in Shakespeare’s Plays
Poetry, Narratology, Meta-Cognition
Narratives as Literary Commonplaces in Late Medieval and Early Modern Medical Writings
Part III Local and National Approaches in Diachronic Perspective: Towards a Comparative Narratology
Narratology in the Mirror of Codifying Texts
The “Tel Aviv School”: A Rhetorical-Functional Approach to Narrative
Enunciative Narratology: A French Speciality
Is There a French Postclassical Narratology?