...Kate Holland The idea of narrative hybridity was central to the work of the Russian literary theorist Alexander Veselovsky (1838 – 1906), particularly to his unfinished work Historical Poetics . For Veselovsky and the Russian theorists who followed him, including Mikhail Bakhtin and Yuri M. Lotman...

... Tavlin, University of Washington DOI 10.1215/03335372-4184410 Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote, and Maoz Azaryahu, Narrating Space/Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet. Columbus: Ohio State Uni...

...Thomas Scholz References Eco Umberto 1984 The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts . Bloomington : Indiana University Press . Juul Jesper 1999 “ A Clash between Game and Narrative .” University of Copenhagen . www.jesperjuul.net/thesis...

...Jakob Lothe Copyright © 2019 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2019 References Chatman Seymour . 1978 . Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Conrad Joseph . 1900 . Lord Jim: A Tale...

...Raphaël Baroni; Adrien Paschoud Copyright © 2021 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2021 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. The three volumes of Time and Narrative (1983–85) were published...

...Katra Byram Abstract The current reckoning with systemic bias and discrimination calls for centering historical and social context in narrative theory, as in other domains of academic and public life. This article undertakes that centering in rhetorical narrative theory. Informed by genre theory...

...Marta Puxan-Oliva Abstract This essay addresses the insufficient attention paid in narrative theory to the reformulated concept of space resulting from the spatial turn in the analysis of narrative space. To address this lack of attention, the essay proposes the concept of “narrative environments...

...Aarnoud Rommens 2003 New Books at a Glance 6828 POETICS TODAY / 24:1 / sheet 145 of 151 Brian Richardson, ed., Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frames. Columbus: Ohio State University Press...

...: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Baumeister, Ray F., and Leonard S. Newman 1995 “The Primacy of Stories, the Primacy of Roles, and the Polarizing Effects of Interpretive Motives: Some Propositions about Narratives,” in Wyer 1995 : 97 -108...

.... An analysis of this narrative core of the coincidence plot centers on the depiction of the characters' cognitive processes and the suspense generated by the reader's anticipation of a recognition scene. Beyond this, the narrative explanation of coincidence is a key feature: a variety of explanatory patterns...

...Joshua Levinson This article investigates the reading dynamics of the rewritten Bible or the exegetical narrative in rabbinic literature of late antiquity. The exegetical narrative is composed of a story which simultaneously represents and interprets its biblical counterpart. Its singularity...

...David Herman © 2004 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2004 On the Notion ‘‘Post-Deconstructive Narrative Text Type or Textual Condition? David Herman English, Ohio State Daniel Punday, Narrative after Deconstruction. Albany: State University of New York Press...

... the ethical dimensions of the telling and those of the told as well as to the ethical positions the author invites the audience to adopt and those the audience brings with them. Demonstrating the usefulness of this approach to Robert Frost's wrenching lyric narrative “Home Burial” provides a response...

...Marie-Laure Ryan This essay explores how theoretical physics, narratology, and narrative itself deal with the idea that reality consists of a plurality of worlds. In physics, the existence of parallel universes has been postulated on the cosmic level to describe what lies on the other side of black...

...Eyal Segal 2006 John Pier, ed., The Dynamics of Narrative Form: Studies in Anglo-American Narratology . Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004. 272 pp. Hamburger, Käte 1993 [1968] The Logic of Literature , 2nd rev. ed., translated by Marilyn J. Rose (Bloomington: Indiana University Press...

...Meir Sternberg Since modernism, narrative omniscience has been much attacked, yet little studied and understood. This in inverse ratio to the central role it actually plays in narrative discourse and metadiscourse alike: the telling, reading, grouping, evolving, conceptualizing of stories, invented...

...H. Porter Abbott The difficulty of understanding emergent behavior is usually attributed to our need to see in it the operation of some kind of centralized control where there is in fact none (Keller 1985, Resnick 1994). Yet as a species, we seem to have little difficulty with complex narratives...

...David Herman Description, narrative , and explanation can be viewed both as cognitive activities and as forms of communication, that is, text types embedded within sociocultural, institutional, and discipline-specific histories of practice. I relate these three text-type categories to research...

...Guillemette Bolens This essay considers David Rudrum's claim that narrative is a type of language act that needs to be construed with regard to its use. Here this claim is related to one of the most influential literary traditions in the history of fiction: the Eastern Book of Sindibad and its...

...Howard Sklar This essay examines some of the ways that narratives produce sympathy in readers. First, I compare several models that have been proposed to explain how fictional texts structure readers' emotional responses. In this connection, I highlight some of the ways that narratological analyses...