Recent Trends in Narratological Research

John Pier

• Publisher: Presses universitaires François-Rabelais
• Year: 1999
• eBook ISBN:
  9782869064720
• Topic: Littérature
• Subtopic: Critique littéraire

Individually, these articles approach narrative from various angles, focusing both on matters that have been debated since even before the advent of narratology and on questions that have been dealt with in only a limited way in the past; together, they show that narratology, far from being a method defined by fixed procedures, is diverse in its theoretical orientations and analytical practices and responsive to the evolution of literary theory and criticism. Model-building inherent in all forms of narratological research has taken on a less monolithic character as researchers in the field have sought to account for the multiplicity of the fine points of literary expression that the highly differentiated corpus of narratives provides. It may well be appropriate to view work being done in narratology today as a new chapter in the study of how narrative contents, narrative signifiers and their configurations and the dynamics of narrative deployment interact. The articles in this volume are offered as a contribution to the writing of this new chapter.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Bibliographic informations
• First pages
• Table of contents
• Introduction
• A Model of Narrative Discourse along Pronominal Lines
• Narratological Categories and the (Non)-Distinction between Factual and Fictional Narratives
• Story Modalised, or the Grammar of Virtuality
• Reconceptualizing the Theory and Generic Scope of Unreliable Narration
• More Aspects of Focalisation: Refinements and Applications
• Order and Narrative
• Apparent Feature-Anomalies in Subjectivized Third-Person Narration
• The Genderization of Narrative
• Parody as a Practice for Postmodernity
• Three Dimensions of Space in the Narrative Text
• Rhématique/Thématique, ou les élans de la syntaxe
• Notes on Contributors