...Steven Willemsen; Rikke Andersen Kraglund; Emily T. Troscianko Narratology and literary studies have always had ambivalent attitudes toward interpretation. This article proposes that the recent divide between the research programs of cognitive and unnatural narratology is a new expression...

... to narrative stress the exceptionality of the fictional. This article investigates disagreements and potential points of mutual interest in a dialogue between Henrik Skov Nielsen, representing unnatural narratology, and Karin Kukkonen, representing second-generation cognitive narratology. The dialogue develops...

...Jeff Thoss; Astrid Ensslin; David Ciccoricco This article proposes to assess and compare the capacities of unnatural and cognitive narratology in dealing with the theoretical and interpretive challenges posed by digital narratives. We argue for an inherent compatibility between, on the one hand...

... between imaginary narratologists who are paradigmatic proponents of two schools of thought in postclassical narratology: the cognitive and the unnatural. The two narratologists juxtapose their respective concepts and methodologies in an analysis of William Golding’s late modernist classic The Inheritors...

... conceptualized in terms of readers’ mental modeling of narrative texts. We build on work in cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics to show how readers understand narrative by building situation models derived from their everyday, embodied experience. However, as unnatural narratology emphasizes, not all...

..., will not only better illuminate how they work but also allow a more radical reexamination of the category “event” itself than unnatural narratology has yet undertaken. The article concludes by sketching out the trajectories for such a larger project. Copyright © 2018 Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics...

... under the continuums of suspension of disbelief and direction of attention, and thereby also demonstrate that understanding the process of immersion as opposite to the process of defamiliarization oversimplifies matters. Combining insights from cognitive and unnatural narratology and discussing texts...

...Lars Bernaerts; Brian Richardson In the analysis and interpretation of fictional minds, unnatural and cognitive narratology may seem mutually exclusive. They each highlight different aspects of what narrators and characters think and feel, and their explanatory grounds differ. An unnatural reading...

... by Alber Jan Nielsen Henrik Skov Richardson Brian , 94 – 112 ( Columbus : Ohio State University Press ). Iversen Stefan . 2016 “ Permanent Defamiliarization as Rhetorical Device; or, How to Let Puppymonkeybaby into Unnatural Narratology ,” Style 50 , no. 4 : 455 – 62...

... the fictionality of literary we-narratives with a communal narrative voice and is apt to inspire more work on different forms of we-narration, their range, history, and contrast with factual we-narratives. References Bekhta Natalya . 2013 . Review of Unnatural Narratives—Unnatural Narratology...

...: Contemporary Story-Critical Narratology (2017 – 19). She is vis- iting professor at Aarhus University’s Centre for Fictionality Studies (2014 and 2018) and cofounder of the Unnatural Narratology research group. She is currently vice president of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. She...

... at the University of Maryland. His most recent works include A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-First Century: Theorizing Unruly Narratives (2019), Essays on Narrative and Fictionality: Reassessing Nine Central Concepts (2021), and Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges , coedited with Jan...

... — and What to Do with Them,” Storyworlds 1 : 41 – 70 . 2014 “Unnatural Narrative.” In Handbook of Narratology , 2nd edition , vol. 2 , edited by Hühn Peter Meister Jan Christoph Pier John Schmid Wolf , 887 – 95 ( Berlin and Boston : De Gruyter ). Amis Martin...

... between the proponents of unnatural narratology and those of cognitive narratology. The controversy is outlined by David Herman in his introduction to The Emergence of Mind (2011), where he criticizes the “exceptionality thesis,” by which he refers to the unnaturalizing approach to fictional minds...

... James and Eric Morel will surely find its way to the reading lists of graduate and undergraduate seminars within the environmental humanities. John Hegglund's chapter on unnatural narratology and weird realism elegantly brings together recent discussions in postclassical narratology with paradigm shifts...

... Theory ( Berlin : De Gruyter ). Nielsen Henrik Skov . 2011 “ Unnatural Narratology, Impersonal Voices, Real Authors, and Non-Communicative Narration .” In Unnatural Narratives—Unnatural Narratology , edited by Alber Jan Heinze Rüdiger , 71 – 88 ( Berlin : De Gruyter...

.... By treating narrative as a literal communicative transmission, it is forced into a wild- goose chase for a covert narrator or an implied author (cf. Patron 2010). Where this proves hermeneutically untenable, it squares the circle with “unnatural narratology” (Alber and Heinze 2011). Yet Walsh’s...

... Keith , 13 – 24 ( New York : McGraw-Hill ). Hansen Per Krogh 2011 “ Backmasked Messages: On the Fabula Construction in Episodically Reversed Narratives .” In Unnatural Narratives—Unnatural Narratology , edited by Alber Jan Heinze Rüdiger , 162 – 85 ( Berlin : de Gruyter...

... This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. narratology novel studies fictionality distant reading surface reading References Alber Jan 2016 Unnatural Narrative: Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama...

... be found in an essay on unnatural narratology by Jan Alber et al. (2010: 120 – 23), who contrast differ- ent versions of Knut Hamsun’s Hunger to elucidate the unnatural evocation of 26. This trend confirms Sternberg’s (1985: 21) prediction (cited above) that increasing special- ization would tend...