...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...

... of the story by following the overt plot along the sequence curiosity ! suspense ! surprise and reinterpreting that sequence, analyzing images and combinations of images and language, with an emphasis on stylistic traits. The article closes by discussing the significance of covert progression for 300...

... typically operates for the rhetorical sequencing of entities conceived as themes, rather than for the grounding and interrelation of entities conceived as objects within a represented scene. With the advent of romanticism, however, place deixis begins to appear with greater frequency, density, and variety...

... and the related ekphrastic moments. My reading is inspired by Liliane Louvel’s (2011) concept of a “picture gallery novel”, Tamar Yacobi’s (2013) work on “double exposure”, and Emma Kafalenos’s (2012) concern with narrativization of sequences of images. I propose to supplement their work with the concept...

... is occupied by an expression designating a group of some kind; (b) the predicate position in these propositions is occupied by predicates that designate the group's holistic attributes or collective actions; (c) the group as such fulfills a range of thematic roles in the narrated sequence. A narrative...

... that juxtapose images and ekphrastic responses, one in which individual images are narrativized (Vargas Llosa) and one in which sequences of images are narrativized (Calvino). In spring 2008, at Washington University in St. Louis, I taught a comparative literature seminar titled Between Image and Text...

... and psychological power than usual, and it combines the play with temporality on the level of the storyworld with a high degree of complexity and sophistication in the deployment of the textual sequence. The novel is first examined in terms of the reality model underlying the storyworld and then in terms...

...Thomas Clément Mercier This article examines Jacques Derrida’s work of self-reflection on his own teaching practice by using as a guiding thread the problematics of reproduction in the seminars of the 1970s. The first part of the article examines the sequence of seminars taught by Derrida at École...

... of repeated events that must be sequenced and developed, and provided with an ending that should satisfactorily conclude such works. The status of characters in these works also needs to be explored; they can (and sometimes do) encounter their “other” selves in the storyworld. Observations on the ontological...

... sequence. I conclude with close readings of two moments from Michael Roemer's 1964 film about African American life, Nothing but a Man : they illustrate how suture enables the narration of intersubjectivity in film, in its embodiments (including the political) from violation and humiliation to evasion...

... Marjorie . 1981 . “ The Linear Fallacy .” Georgia Review 35 , no. 4 : 855 – 69 . Pinsky Robert . 1979 . An Explanation of America . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Rosenthal M. L. , and Gall Sally M. 1983 . The Modern Poetic Sequence: The Genius...

... curiosité, par le ‘déchiffrement d’une énigme’” (73, his emphasis) [seems thus to correspond to a dynamics of plot polar- ized by curiosity, by the “decoding of an enigma Even in the sequence of actions, Baroni locates a source of tension, drawing on and developing Claude Bremond’s...

... and the Indirections of Direct Speech ,'' Language and Style 15 : 67 – 117 . 1983a `` Deictic Sequence: World, Language, and Convention ,'' in Essays on Deixis , edited by Rauh Gisa , 277 – 316 ( Tübingen, Germany : Gunter Narr ). 1983b `` Mimesis and Motivation: The Two Faces of Fictional...

... Stephen M. Polk Noel 1996 Reading Faulkner: “The Sound and the Fury” ( Jackson : University Press of Mississippi ). Ryan Marie-Laure 2016 “ Sequence, Linearity, Spatiality; or, Why Be Afraid of Fixed Narrative Order? ” In Narrative Sequence in Contemporary Narratology , edited...

...: gaps and intervals. These transitional sequences, in absentia and yet very much present in the reader’s hermeneutical efforts, determine “diegetic duration” (116) and the eventual effect the narrative will have on us. They help demonstrate that there is no such thing as simple sequencing. Every...

... the issues to be reviewed next intersect in the follow- ing (mis)translation of the generic universals into hard and fast rules, with thumbnail examples to suit: Surprise A surprise event structure must contain critical expository or event informa- tion early in the event sequence...

...). 1986a [1967] “The Discourse of History,” in Barthes 1986b: 127 -40. 1986b The Rustle of Language , translated by Richard Howard (New York: Hill and Wang). 1988a [1966] “Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives,” in Barthes 1988c: 95 -135. 1988b [1969] “The Sequences...