Point of View, Perspective, and Focalization
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Point of View, Perspective, and Focalization

Modeling Mediation in Narrative

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Point of View, Perspective, and Focalization

Modeling Mediation in Narrative

About this book

Stories do not actually exist in the (fictional or factual) world but are constituted, structured and endowed with meaning through the process of mediation, i.e. they are represented and transmitted through systems of verbal, visual or audio-visual signs. The terms usually proposed to describe aspects of mediation, especially perspective, point of view, and focalization, have yet to bring clarity to this field, which is of central importance, not only for narratology but also for literary and media studies. One crucial problem about mediation concerns the dimensions of its modeling effect, particularly the precise status and constellation of the mediating agents, i.e. author, narrator or presenter and characters. The question is how are the structure and the meaning of the story conditioned by these different positions in relation to the mediated happenings perceived from outside and/or inside the storyworld? In this volume, fourteen articles by international scholars from seven different countries address these problems anew from various angles, reviewing the sub-categorization of mediation and re-specifying its dimensions both in literary texts and other media such as drama and theater, film, and computer games.

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Yes, you can access Point of View, Perspective, and Focalization by Peter Hühn, Wolf Schmid, Jörg Schönert, Peter Hühn,Wolf Schmid,Jörg Schönert in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Folklore & Mythic Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9783110218909
eBook ISBN
9783110218916
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Folklore & Mythic Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. The DNS of Mediacy
  5. Focalization: Where Do We Go from Here?
  6. Perspectivization and Focalization: Two Concepts—One Meaning? An Attempt at Conceptual Differentiation
  7. A Brief Introduction to an Enunciative Approach to Point of View
  8. Narrative and Stylistic Agency: The Case of Overt Narration
  9. Beyond Voice and Vision: Cognitive Grammar and Focalization Theory
  10. Plural Focalization, Singular Voices: Wandering Perspectives in “We”-Narration
  11. A Comparative Analysis of Indices of Narrative Point of View in Bulgarian and English
  12. Focalization, the Subject and the Act of Shaping Perspective
  13. Coming to Our Senses: Narratology and the Visual
  14. Organizing the Perspectives: Focalization and the Superordinate Narrative System in Drama and Theater
  15. Focalization, Ocularization and Auricularization in Film and Literature
  16. Film Narratology: Who Tells? Who Shows? Who Focalizes? Narrative Mediation in Self-Reflexive Fiction Films
  17. Perspective in Contemporary Computer Games
  18. Backmatter