...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...

...Robert T. Tally, Jr. Ryan Marie-Laure Foote Kenneth Azaryahu Maoz , Narrating Space/Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2016 . viii + 312 pp. Copyright © 2017 Porter Institute for Poetics and...

...Thomas Scholz Hatavara Mari Hyvärinen Matti Mäkelä Maria Mäyrä Frans , eds. Narrative Theory, Literature, and New Media: Narrative Minds and Virtual Worlds . New York : Routledge , 2016 . xii + 314 pp. Copyright © 2019 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics...

...Jakob Lothe Phelan James , Somebody Telling Somebody Else: A Rhetorical Poetics of Narrative . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2017 . xv + 1274 pp. Copyright © 2019 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2019 References Chatman Seymour . 1978...

...Jeroen Vandaele What is narrative humor? With this question in mind, my essay (in two parts) reviews several studies of narrative and humor. Part 1 discusses Edmond Wright (2005), who argues that both humor and narrative crucially require audiences or readers to switch between “intentional...

...Liisa Steinby In this article, the questions of narrative temporality and narrative subjectivity in Gérard Genette's Narrative Discourse are examined, with special attention to the underlying basis of Genette's conceptual apparatus. The idea of basing concepts in narrative theory on linguistics...

...Eyal Segal Caracciolo Marco , The Experientiality of Narrative: An Enactivist Approach . Berlin : De Gruyter , 2014 . xiii + 231 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 New Books at a Glance Walter Bernhart and Lawrence Kramer, eds., On Voice...

...Eyal Segal Ireland Ken , Thomas Hardy, Time, and Narrative: A Narratological Approach to His Novels . Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan , 2014 . xii + 291 pp. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 New Books at a Glance Walter Bernhart and Lawrence...

...Eyal Segal Herman David , ed., The Emergence of Mind: Representations of Consciousness in Narrative Discourse in English . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2011 . viii + 315 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance...

...Eyal Segal Meister Jan Christoph Schernus Wilhelm , eds., Time: From Concept to Narrative Construct; A Reader . Berlin : de Gruyter , 2011 . xxi + 260 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance Peter Hu¨ hn, Eventfulness in...

...Eyal Segal Lehtimäki Markku , Karttunen Laura , and Mäkelä Maria , eds., Narrative, Interrupted: The Plotless, the Disturbing, and the Trivial in Literature . Berlin : De Gruyter , 2012 . xvi + 327 pp. © 2014 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2014 200...

...Eyal Segal Hansen Per Krogh Iversen Stefan Nielsen Henrik Skov Reitan Rolf , eds., Strange Voices in Narrative Fiction . Berlin : de Gruyter , 2011 . vi + 268 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance Marina...

...Martin Kreiswirth This essay is part of a long-term cross-disciplinary research project,entitled “Narrative between the Disciplines,” which looks at the way narrative is used within and between different disciplinary formations. Its goal is to say something about narrative itself as a form of...

... Lakoff 's theory of the multiple levels of framing in discourse, concentrating on the interplay of argument and narrative frames. Studies of emotion and mood in narrative genres are adapted to refine Lakoff's account of narrative, making it more complex, systematic, and sensitive to historical context...

...Luc Herman; Bart Vervaeck This essay aims to clarify how literary and nonliterary narratives function in society and culture. To reach this broad goal, it first presents a general framework inspired by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the American New Historicist Stephen Greenblatt. The...

...Sylvie Patron Two books on the representation of consciousness in narrative have recently been published in the United States and the Netherlands (in a series devoted to French language and literature), The Emergence of Mind: Representations of Consciousness in Narrative Discourse in English (2011...

...: The Novelistic Transformation of Russian Narrative Discourse Robin Feuer Miller Brandeis University Victoria Somoff, The Imperative of Reliability: Russian Prose on the Eve of the Novel, 1820s – 1850s. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2015. x 1 238 pp. In this groundbreaking...

...Arnaud Schmitt Baroni Raphaël Revaz Françoise , eds., Narrative Sequence in Contemporary Narratology . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2016 . viii + 226 pp. Copyright © 2017 Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017 784 Poetics Today 38:4 Raphae¨l Baroni...

...Paul Dawson The novel is both a type of narrative and a distinct literary genre. This introduction argues that theoretical accounts of formal elements of narrative fiction, on the one hand, and historical investigations into the development of the novel, on the other, suffer from a lack of...

...Nicholas Paige When literary scholars analyze narrative personhood historically, they typically see periods , explained as an effect of deeper psychosocial mutations. Thus the dominant first person of the eighteenth century is the counterpart to a new bourgeois subject, while the third-person...