Alber / Heinze Unnatural Narratives - Unnatural Narratology

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-022904-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 279 Seiten

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In recent years, the study of unnatural narratives has become an exciting new but still disparate research program in narrative theory. For the first time, this collection of essays presents and discusses the new analytical tools that have so far been developed on the basis of unnatural novels, short stories, and plays and extends these findings through analyses of testimonies, comics, graphic novels, films, and oral narratives.Many narratives do not only mimetically reproduce the world as we know it but confront us with strange narrative worlds which rely on principles that have very little to do with the actual world around us. The essays in this collection develop new narratological tools and modeling systems which are designed to capture the strangeness and extravagance of such anti-realist narratives. Taken together, the essays offer a systematic investigation of anti-mimetic techniques and strategies that relate to different narrative parameters, different media, and different periods within literary history.

Zielgruppe

Academics (Literary Studies), Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alber, Jan

Heinze, Rüdiger

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;6
2;Introduction;8
3;I. SYNCHRONIC AND DIACHRONIC PERSPECTIVES;28
3.1;What Is Unnatural Narrative Theory?;30
3.2;The Diachronic Development of Unnaturalness: A New View on Genre;48
4;II. UNNATURAL NARRATORS AND MINDS;76
4.1;Unnatural Narratology, Impersonal Voices, Real Authors, and Non-Communicative Narration;78
4.2;“In flaming flames”: Crises of Experientiality in Non-Fictional Narratives;96
4.3;Toward a Hybrid Approach to the Unnatural: ‘Reading for the Consciousness’ and the Psychodynamics of Experientiality in Caryl Churchill’s Heart’s Desire;111
5;III. UNNATURAL TIME AND CAUSALITY;132
5.1;Narrative Causality Denaturalized;134
5.2;Hollywood Goes Computer Game: Narrative Remediation in the Time-Loop Quests Groundhog Day and 12:01;152
5.3;Backmasked Messages: On the Fabula Construction in Episodically Reversed Narratives;169
6;IV. UNNATURAL WORLDS AND EVENTS;194
6.1;Unnatural Narrative and Metalepsis: Grant Morrison’s Animal Man;196
6.2;Unnatural Worlds and Unnatural Narration in Comics? A Critical Examination;217
6.3;Natural or Unnatural? Linguistic Deep Level Structures in AbE: A Case Study of New South Wales Aboriginal English;253
7;BIO NOTES;276

Über Autor(innen)

Alber, Jan
Jan Alber, University of Freiburg, Germany

Heinze, Rüdiger
Rüdiger Heinze, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany