Theorizing Narrativity
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Theorizing Narrativity

  1. 464 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Theorizing Narrativity

About this book

Theorizing Narrativity is a collective work by an international array of leading specialists in narrative theory. It provides new perspectives on the nature of narrative, genre theory, narrative semiotics and communication theory. Most contributions center on the specificity of literary fiction, but each chapter investigates a different dimension of narrativity with many issues dealt with in innovative ways (including oral storytelling, the law, video games, causality, intertextuality and the theory of reading). There are chapters by Gerald Prince on narrativehood and narrativity, Meir Sternberg on the narrativity of the law-code, Werner Wolf on chance and Peter Hühn on eventfulness in fiction, Jukka Tyrkkö on kaleidoscope narratives, Marie-Laure Ryan on transfictionality and computer games, Ansgar Nünning and Roy Sommer as well as Monika Fludernik on the narrativity of drama, Beatriz Penas on (non)standard narrativities, David Rudrum on narrativity and performativity, Michael Toolan on textual guidance, John Pier on causality and retrospection, and José Ángel García Landa on retelling and represented narrations.

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Yes, you can access Theorizing Narrativity by John Pier, José Angel Garcia Landa, John Pier,José Angel Garcia Landa in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9783110202441
eBook ISBN
9783110969801
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Narrrativehood, Narrativeness, Narrativity, Narratibility
  3. If-Plots: Narrativity and the Law-Code
  4. After this, therefore because of this
  5. Functions and Forms of Eventfulness in Narrative Fiction
  6. Chance in Fiction as a Privileged Index of Implied Worldviews: A Contribution to the World-Modelling Functions of Narrative Fiction
  7. A Pragma-stylistic Contribution to the Study of Narrativity: Standard versus Non-standard Narrativities
  8. Narrativity and Performativity: From Cervantes to Star Trek
  9. ‘Kaleidoscope’ Narratives and the Act of Reading
  10. The Language of Guidance
  11. Diegetic and Mimetic Narrativity: Some further Steps towards a Transgeneric Narratology of Drama
  12. Narrative and Drama
  13. Transfictionality across Media
  14. Narrating Narrating: Twisting the Twice-Told Tale
  15. Author/Name Index