... narratology, Haidu distinguishes “two fundamental actantial functions- that of destinator and that of the subject 133). The destina- tor is the figure or actor within the narrative who “forwards”a certain set of values to the subject. Conversely, the subject undertakes a narrative pro- gram...

... most specific adversaries, feature the narratology of Barthes, Greimas, and company, as well as the cultural anthropology of Livi-Strauss. (If it seems a bit late in the day to counterargue structuralism, Kroeber should be for- given; these remain the most recent and influential thinkers about...

... and methods that, at present, are all that remain of poetics in literary study. Specifically, I have in mind narratology, the sole survivor of the brief efflorescence of “structuralist poetics” in the late 1960s and early 1970s, where the trend is toward hybrid narratologies — ­feminist, cog- nitive...

..., Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, 2d ed. (Toronto: Univer- sity of Toronto Press, 1997), 101. Modern Language Quarterly 61:1, March 2000. © 2000 University of Washington. MLQ 61.1-11Gallagher.ak 6/1/00 2:33 PM Page 230 230...

... of political history in Conrad’s novels. Indeed, Raval’s insistence on Conrad’s political engagement fruitfully complicates the arguments of those scholars who have treated the failure of knowing in Conrad as essentially philosophic, linguistic, or narratological.’ Raval opens a potentially rewarding...

... and advance novel alterations of meaning for the texts under study. While pursuing a particular trajectory, he effortlessly avails himself of relevant theoretical paradigms—discourse analysis and narratology, phenomenology and performance theory, deconstruction, political theory, and metaethics—in a manner...

... the historians for avoiding the work on narratology being done by Genette and Todorov right there at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes (34). The New Historians neglect issues of textualization, rhetoric, episte- mology, or process in general. “They are still, in sum, waiting for their Gdel,” muses Carrard...

... from their ensuing critique only those “literary subjects with no direct bearing on interpretation such as narratology, stylistics, and prosody” (Knapp and Michaels 1985 : 11). “Poetics,” or poetology, clearly belongs with these rescued terms, perhaps as a blanket category that covers them all...

..., variations determined in part by the other kinds of narrative time to which it is compared in each of her books. Throughout her career Ermarth has established a welcome territory between taxonomical (and ahistorical) narratology and cultural analyses of the novel that depend primarily on plot...

... that the matured Ernest Pontifex returns to his friend Towneley. But these are small blemishes in a long and learned book. More regrettable is a determined and not infrequent resort to citrrent jargon: “narrativizations,” “synchronic analysis by structuralist narratology,” “narra- tological...

...- tion matches a general turn to ethics in recent literary criticism. However, it is also a stunning confirmation of how the mighty have fallen. Todorov was the prime exponent of literary science as structuralism and narratology. Now, parsing the finer points of ethicopolitical criticism late...

... Towneley. But these are small blemishes in a long and learned book. More regrettable is a determined and not infrequent resort to citrrent jargon: “narrativizations,” “synchronic analysis by structuralist narratology,” “narra- tological,” “autobiographicality,” “foregrounded,” “valorized...

..., was extremely thin in its consideration of narrative, particularly in the context-our context-of a century’s theo- retical reflection, in which various rhetorics of fiction (from Henry James to Gerard Genette) have combined with narratologies of different types to produce a highly developed...

... this celebration has been put. Copyright © 2015 by University of Washington 2015 endings Roland Barthes narratology realism structuralism You may not be all that surprised to hear that Hollywood blockbusters have trouble finishing. You’ve seen enough of them; you’ve sat through some gangly third...

... narratology, which opens an inviting, fresh path for medieval literary and cultural studies. Michel-Andri Bossy, Brown University Plots and Counterplots: Sexual Politics and the Body Politic in English Literatuw, I 660-1730. By Richard Braverman. Cambridge...

... to something in the first place—why we should care. Far from neutral, as tends to be assumed, description is ultimately evaluative. As a discursive practice, description rises in value as soon as we recognize it as precisely a mode of valuing. Understood in terms of poetics rather than of narratology...

..., When we take up a textual analysis of “La Femme adultere” and its intertext, the issue of orientalism dictates that we take up the stylistic aspect before the narratological. The style used to describe the locale in both Gide’s novel and Camus’s story is patently belletristic and may...

..., where it is seen as requiring training and erudition. In literary studies, description takes center stage in philology, narratology, poetics, stylistics, bibliography, and book history, as well as in some aspects of the digital humanities, such as ontologies, text mining, and text encoding. Many critics...

... of narratology. Phonemes, lexical shifts, syntax: the stuff of stylistics. The two taken together as part of the same aesthetic effort to register what Stewart calls “violence”: that would be, properly speak- ing, “narratography.” The guiding idea behind this new quantum mechanics of fiction runs...

... of narratology. Phonemes, lexical shifts, syntax: the stuff of stylistics. The two taken together as part of the same aesthetic effort to register what Stewart calls “violence”: that would be, properly speak- ing, “narratography.” The guiding idea behind this new quantum mechanics of fiction runs...