Unnatural narratives--unnatural narratology
By: edited by Jan Alber, Rüdiger Heinze
Series: Linguae & litterae -- 9
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9783110229035
Subjects: Theory; Literature; History and criticism; Narration (Rhetoric); Literary form
Description: "The study of unnatural narratives as become an important, but still disparate new research program in narrative theory. 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. Taken together, the essays develop new modeling systems which are designed to capture the strangeness and extravagance of unnatural narratives"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives / Brian Richardson (Maryland); title: What Is Unnatural Narrative Theory? / Jan Alber (Freiburg); title: The Diachronic Development of Unnaturalness: A New View on Genre; title: 2. Unnatural Narrators and Minds / Henrik Skov Nielsen (Aarhus); title: Unnatural Narratology, Impersonal Voices, Real Authors, and Non-Communicative Narration / Stefan Iversen (Aarhus); title: "In flaming flames": crises of Experientiality in Non-Fictional Narratives / Caroline Pirlet (Freiburg); title: Toward a Hybrid Approach to the Unnatural: "Reading for the Consciousness" and the psychodynamics of Experientiality in Caryl Churchill's Heart's Desire; title: 3. Unnatural Time and Causality / Marina Grishakova (Tartu); title: Narrative Causality Denaturalized / Martin Hermann (Freiburg); title: Hollywood Goes Computer Game: Narrative Remediation in the Time-Loop Quests Groundhog Day and 12:01 / Per Krogh Hansen (Kolding); title: Backmasked Messages: On the Fabula Construction in Episodically Reversed Narratives; title: 4. Unnatural Worlds and Events / Jeff Thoss (Graz); title: Unnatural Narrative and Metalepsis: Grant Morrison's Animal Man / Johannes Fehrle (Vancouver); title: Unnatural Worlds and Unnatural Narration in Comics' A Critical Examination / Andrea Moll (Freiburg); title: Natural or Unnatural? Linguistic Deep Level Structures in AbE: A Case Study of New South Wales Aboriginal English.