... time: telling time, the story moments from which a narrator speaks that contain every word of their text. While the Great House 's text order ending leads to a depressing conclusion, the novel's telling order and simultaneous telling times illuminate more optimistic interpretations. Attending...

... in relation to my account of narrative dynamics, in this “Telling in Time” series and elsewhere. Above all, given Shklovsky's perceptual emphasis, does his master effect constitute the genre's universal, overlapping and/or rivaling the dynamics of prospection (“suspense”), retrospection (“curiosity...

... Press . Sternberg Meir . 1990 . “ Telling in Time (I): Chronology and Narrative Theory .” Poetics Today 11 , no. 4 : 901 – 48 . Sternberg Meir . 1992 . “ Telling in Time (II): Chronology, Teleology, Narrativity .” Poetics Today 13 , no. 3 : 463 – 541 . Sternberg...

... statements and propositions. The fact that narrative operation often implies a poetics of truth telling makes literary narratives—and complex novels, above all—a privileged genre for conveying insights about life and the world, especially at a time when we no longer believe in one absolute truth universally...

... a higher degree of narrativity than media narratives. It also presents a different relationship to time: while media narratives usually closely follow the events they tell, accompanying every twist and turn, without being able to predict what will happen next, narrative journalism only tackles events...

... (Bloomington:Indiana University Press). 1990 “Telling in Time (I): Chronology and Narrative Theory,” Poetics Today 11 : 901 -48. Taylor, Charles 1989 Sources of the Self:The Makingof Modern Identity (Cambridge: Harvard University Press). Turner, Mark 1996 The Literary Mind (New York: Oxford...

... ability to tell what we might think of as the absolute truth. I think the key to understanding how contemporary writers try to do two seemingly mutually exclusive things, to hold onto postmodernism’s suspi- cions of totalizing narrative and tell truthful stories at the same time, lies in the type...

... otherwise: who better to address the meaning of American democracy than someone who (the story goes) sacrificed their body in service of it? At a time when American culture is increasingly concerned with the question of who has the right to tell a story or speak on an issue, military veterans are often...

... trapped in the changed world, which is our own. For the 1877 narrator — and time traveler — the year in which he was born, 1921, lies in the past; therefore he can tell us what is, in narrative form, a retrospective autobiography about how his life developed from that year to 1952, when he...

... “ Narrative Versions, Narrative Theories ”, Critical Inquiry 7 , no. 1 : 213 – 36 . Sternberg Meir 1990 “ Telling in Time (I): Chronology and Narrative Theory ”, Poetics Today 11 , no. 4 : 901 – 48 . Sternberg Meir 1992 “ Telling in Time (II): Chronology, Teleology...

... concludes: ‘‘Angry all the time. Face looks angry. I don’t know how to straighten my face out He tells of his mother, who was partially paralyzed from a stroke, though she still worked in the Łódz´ghetto,weav- ing rags. One day, two SS men broke into their apartment and demanded that she tear up...

... uses the simple characterization of the narratee as an out-of-towner to provide a plausible motivation for Whitey the barber's extended telling of well-known town events. At the same time, Lardner uses this characterization to call attention to Whitey's unreliable interpretations and evaluations...

...-Aristotelian Rhetorical Theory,” Narrative 21 ( 2 ): 140 – 58 . 2014 “Unreliability,” in Hühn . 2014 , 2 : 896 – 909 . Sternberg Meir 1978 Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction ( Bloomington : Indiana University Press ). 1990 “Telling in Time (I...

... Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frames ( Columbus : Ohio State University Press ). Robinson E. Arthur 1965 “ Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart,’ ” Nineteenth-Century Fiction 19 ( 4 ): 369 – 78 . Rohrberger Mary 1966 Hawthorne and the Modern Short Story: A Study...

... of narrative temporality are analyzed, which he defines in terms of the physical coordinates of the location and extension of the event and of its narration on the continuum of time. Indeed, Genette's approach to the definition of narrative phenomena closely resembles Galileo's method of observing bodies...

...” (transla- tion of Genette 1972: 72n1). This suggests that diegesis can be equated with the story itself or is part of it. At the same time, the diegesis crucially depends on the action of telling and not on the discourse (récit). Genette thus implicitly restricts the notion of universe...

... ( Berlin : Aufbau-Verlag ). Sternberg Meir 1992 `` Telling in Time (II): Chronology, Teleology, Narrativity , Poetics Today 13 : 463 – 541 . 2003 `` Universals of Narrative and their Cognitivist Fortunes (II) , Poetics Today 24 : 517 – 638 . Suleiman Susan R. , ed...

... Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading (Bloomington: Indiana University Press). 1986 “The World from the Addressee's Viewpoint: Reception as Representation, Dialogue as Monologue,” Style 20 : 295 -318. 1990 “Telling in Time (I): Chronology and Narrative Theory,” Poetics...

... something in the world: “somebody telling somebody else on some occasion and for some purposes that something happened” (Phelan 2017 ). Rhetorical narratologists do acknowledge the contributions of the structuralists, but the rhetoricians subsume these ideas within their author-audience model and, in so...

...Eyal Segal Zunshine Lisa , Getting inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2012 . xiii + 217 pp . © 2015 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2015 New Books at a Glance Deborah...