...Tom Kindt; Hans-Harald Müller This contribution discusses the two programmatic assumptions made by David Darby in his outline of the history of narratology or Erzähltheorie (narrative theory).The first is that narratology ought to be remodeled into a contextualist theory of interpretation...

...David Darby This essay compares two distinct traditions of narrative theory: on the one hand, that of structuralist narratology as it emerged in the 1960s and in its various subsequent manifestations; on the other, that of German-language Erzähltheorie as codified in the 1950s, with a prehistory...

...David Darby © 2003 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2003 Bal, Mieke 1981 “The Laughing Mice—or: On Focalization,” Poetics Today 2 (2): 202 -10. 1985 Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative , translated by Christine van Boheemen(Toronto: University...

...Monika Fludernik The comment takes issue with David Darby's presentation of German narratology, arguing that German contributions to the field of narrative studies are much broader and more varied than argued by Darby in his article in Poetics Today , vol. 22, no. 4 (2001). © 2003 by the Porter...

... structurale du récit,” Communications 8 . Brooks, Peter 1984 Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press). Dällenbach, Lucien 1977 Le récit spéculaire: Essai sur la mise en abyme (Paris: Seuil). Darby, David 2001 “Form and Context...

..., and medievel studies in an effort to better understand our relation to the past as ‘‘other David Darby is an associate professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Structures of Disintegration: Narra- tive Strategies in Elias Canetti’s ‘‘Die...

... on cognitive verbal semantics, on the relationship between a conceptual theory of metaphor and Peircean semiotic theory, and on sensory imagery in ‘‘The Death of Ivan Il’ich He is currently working on a study of Tolstoy’s use of metaphorical analogy in Anna Karenina. David Darby is an associate professor...

... University Press). 2000 “Discordant Narration,” Style 34 : 307 -16. Cosslett, Tess 2000 Feminism and Autobiography (London: Routledge). Culler, Jonathan 1975 Structuralist Poetics (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul). Darby, David 2001 “Form and Context: An Essay in the History...

..., and Social Change, 1918 – 38 ( Providence, RI : Berg ). Koonz Claudia 1987 Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family, and Nazi Politics ( New York : St. Martin's ). Lewes Darby 1995 Dream Revisionaries: Gender and Genre in Women's Utopian Fiction, 1870 – 1920 ( Tuscaloosa...