Beyond Classical Narration

Beyond Classical Narration
Title Beyond Classical Narration PDF eBook
Author Jan Alber
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 291
Release 2014-07-28
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3110353245

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This collection of essays looks at two important manifestations of postclassical narratology, namely transmedial narratology on the one hand, and unnatural narratology on the other. The articles deal with films, graphic novels, computer games, web series, the performing arts, journalism, reality games, music, musicals, and the representation of impossibilities. The essays demonstrate how new media and genres as well as unnatural narratives challenge classical forms of narration in ways that call for the development of analytical tools and modelling systems that move beyond classical structuralist narratology. The articles thus contribute to the further development of both transmedial and unnatural narrative theory, two of the most important manifestations of postclassical narratology.

Narratology beyond Literary Criticism

Narratology beyond Literary Criticism
Title Narratology beyond Literary Criticism PDF eBook
Author Jan Christoph Meister
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 314
Release 2008-08-22
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3110201844

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This anthology presents the results of the Second International Colloquium of the Narratology Research Group (Hamburg University). It engages in the exploration of approaches that broaden Narratology's realm. The contributions illustrate the transcendence of traditional models common to Narratology. They also reflect on the relevance of such a 'going beyond' as seen in more general terms: What interrelation can be observed between re-definition of object domain and re-definition of method? What potential interfaces with other methods and disciplines does the proposed innovation offer? Finally, what are the repercussions of the proposed innovation in terms of Narratology's self-definition? The innovative volume facilitates the inter-methodological debate between Narratology and other disciplines, enabling the conceptualization of a Narratology beyond traditional Literary Criticism.

Narratology

Narratology
Title Narratology PDF eBook
Author Genevieve Liveley
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 300
Release 2019-03-28
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0192524437

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This volume explores the extraordinary contribution that classical poetics has made to twentieth and twenty-first century theories of narrative, aiming not to argue that modern narratologies simply present 'old wine in new wineskins', but rather to identify the diachronic affinities shared between ancient and modern stories about storytelling. By recognizing that modern narratologists bring a particular expertise to bear upon ancient literary theory, and by interrogating ancient and modern narratologies through the mutually imbricating dynamics of their reception, it seeks to arrive at a better understanding of both. Each chapter selects a key moment in the history of narratology on which to focus, providing an overview of significant phases before offering detailed analyses of core theories and texts, from the Russian formalists and Chicago school neo-Aristotelians, through the prestructuralists, structuralists, and poststructuralists, up to the latest unnatural and antimimetic narratologists. The reception history that thus unfolds offers some remarkable plot twists and yields valuable insights into the interpretation of some notoriously difficult ancient works. Plato in the Republic is unmasked as an unreliable narrator and theorist, while Aristotle's On Poets reveals a rare glimpse of the philosopher putting narrative theory into practice in the role of storyteller. Horace's Ars Poetica and the works of ancient scholia by critics and commentators evince a rhetorically conceived poetics and sophisticated reader-response-based narratology which indicate a keen interest in audience affect and cognition - anticipating the cognitive turn in narratology's most recent postclassical phase.

Music and Levels of Narration in Film

Music and Levels of Narration in Film
Title Music and Levels of Narration in Film PDF eBook
Author Guido Heldt
Publisher Intellect (UK)
Pages 312
Release 2013
Genre Music
ISBN

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Music and Levels of Narration in Film is the first book-length study to synthesize scholarly contributions toward a narrative theory of film music. Moving beyond the distinction between diegetic and nondiegetic music--or music that is not understood as part of a film's "story world"--Guido Heldt systematically discusses music at different levels of narration, from the extrafictional to "focalizations" of subjectivity. Heldt then applies this conceptual toolkit to study the narrative strategies of music in individual films, as well as genres, including musicals and horror films. The resulting volume will be an indispensable resource for anyone researching or studying film music or film narratology. A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License and is part of Knowledge Unlatched.

Author and Narrator

Author and Narrator
Title Author and Narrator PDF eBook
Author Dorothee Birke
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 280
Release 2015-03-10
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3110348551

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The distinction between author and narrator is one of the cornerstones of narrative theory. In the past two decades, however, scope, implications and consequences of this distinction have become the subjects of debate. This volume offers contributions to these debates from different vantage points: literary studies, linguistics, philosophy, and media studies. It thus manifests the status of narrative theory as a transdisciplinary project.

Beyond the Great Story

Beyond the Great Story
Title Beyond the Great Story PDF eBook
Author Robert F. Berkhofer
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 402
Release 1995
Genre Historia
ISBN 9780674069084

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What legitimate form can history take when faced by the severe challenges issued in recent years by literary, rhetorical, multiculturalist, and feminist theories? That is the question considered in this pathbreaking book. Robert Berkhofer addresses the essential practical concern of contemporary historians.

Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema

Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema
Title Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema PDF eBook
Author A. Cameron
Publisher Springer
Pages 221
Release 2008-07-11
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0230594190

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Since the early 1990s there has been a trend towards narrative complexity within popular cinema. This book examines a number of contemporary films that play overtly with narrative structure, raising questions of chance and destiny, memory and history, simultaneity and the representation of time.