Narrative Dynamics

Author : Brian Richardson
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0814208959

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Narrative Dynamics by Brian Richardson Pdf

This anthology brings together essential essays on major facets of narrative dynamics, that is, the means by which "narratives traverse their often unlikely routes from beginning to end." It includes the most widely cited and discussed essays on narrative beginnings, temporality, plot and emplotment, sequence and progression, closure, and frames. The text is designed as a basic reader for graduate courses in narrative and critical theory across disciplines including literature, drama and theatre, and film. Narrative Dynamics includes such classic exponents as E. M. Forster on story and plot; Vladimir Propp on the structure of the folktale; R. S. Crane on plot; Boris Tomashevsky on story, plot, and, motif; M. M. Bakhtin on the chronotope; and Gerard Genette on narrative time. Richardson highlights essential feminist essays by Nancy K. Miller on plot and plausibility, Rachel Blau Duplessis on closure, and Susan Winnett on narrative and desire. These are complimented by newer pieces by Susan Stanford Friedman on spatialization and Robyn Warhol on serial fiction. Other major contributions include Edward Said on beginnings, Hayden White on historical narrative, Peter Brooks on plot, Paul Ricoeur on time, D. A. Miller on closure, James Phelan on progression, and Jacques Derrida on the frame. Recent essays from the perspective of cultural studies, postmodernism, and artificial intelligence bring this collection right up to the present.

Author : Bruce W. Longenecker
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664222773

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Narrative Dynamics in Paul by Bruce W. Longenecker Pdf

Are Paul's letters undergirded and informed by key narratives, and does a heightened awareness of those narratives help us to gain a richer and more rounded understanding of Paul's theology? The last two decades of the twentieth century witnessed an increasing interest in the narrative features of Paul's thought. A variety of studies since that period have advanced "story" as an integral and generative ingredient in Paul's theological formulations. In this book, a team of leading Pauline scholars assesses the strengths and weaknesses of a narrative approach, looking in detail at its application to particular Pauline texts.

Author : Stephen Michael Wheeler
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Discourse analysis, Narrative
ISBN : 3823348795

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Narrative Dynamics in Ovid's Metamorphoses by Stephen Michael Wheeler Pdf

Author : Dan Shen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000812817

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Dual Narrative Dynamics by Dan Shen Pdf

Combining narratological and stylistic methods, this book theorizes dual narrative dynamics consisting of plot development and covert progression and demonstrates the consequences for the interpretation of literary works. In narratives with such dynamics, writers work simultaneously with overt and covert trajectories of signification, establishing a range of relationships between them. The two parallel narrative movements may complement, contradict or even subvert each other, and these relationships significantly influence readers’ understanding not just of events but also of characters, themes, and aesthetic values. The book provides a systematic theoretical account of such previously neglected dual narrative dynamics, substantiated and enriched by the textual analysis of works by Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, Franz Kafka, and Katherine Mansfield. The study explores the many ways that these authors have used dual dynamics to increase the power of their narratives. In addition, the book identifies the challenges such dual dynamics present not only for narratology but also for stylistics and translation studies, and it develops sound and provocative proposals for meeting those challenges. In taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of narrative and literary theory, literary criticism, literary stylistics, and translation studies.

Author : George Varotsis
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498504423

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Screenplay and Narrative Theory by George Varotsis Pdf

Screenplay and Narrative Theory draws attention to the notion that in order to comprehend complex narrative dynamics, which are encountered in a great variety of narrative genres, forms, and formats, a more comprehensive theory of narrative is required. George Varotsis explains how a work of narrative functions synergistically and systemically, as well as elucidates the heuristic problem-solving mechanisms that are employed in various structural levels of thought processes, which allow the coherent accumulative derivative we call a story to emerge. The transition from an empirical to theoretical perspective is achieved by introducing characteristics of complex narrative systems: a network of narrative components, i.e. characters, structure, goals, motivations, theme, plot and subplots, narrative action, etc., which are arranged hierarchically over three fundamental levels of structure, i.e. deep, intermediate, and surface structure, that interact parallel to one another in non-linear ways. Varotsis tackles questions about how stories semantically emerge in the underlying dynamics that allow a work of narrative to function as a unified whole.

Author : Paul Dawson,Maria Mäkelä
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000576375

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The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory by Paul Dawson,Maria Mäkelä Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory brings together top scholars in the field to explore the significance of narrative to pressing social, cultural, and theoretical issues. How does narrative both inform and limit the way we think today? From conspiracy theories and social media movements to racial politics and climate change future scenarios, the reach is broad. This volume is distinctive for addressing the complicated relations between the interdisciplinary narrative turn in the academy and the contemporary boom of instrumental storytelling in the public sphere. The scholars collected here explore new theories of causality, experientiality, and fictionality; challenge normative modes of storytelling; and offer polemical accounts of narrative fiction, nonfiction, and video games. Drawing upon the latest research in areas from cognitive sciences to complexity theory, the volume provides an accessible entry point for those new to the myriad applications of narrative theory and a point of departure for new scholarship.

Author : Marina Grishakova,Maria Poulaki
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496214928

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Narrative Complexity by Marina Grishakova,Maria Poulaki Pdf

The variety in contemporary philosophical and aesthetic thinking as well as in scientific and experimental research on complexity has not yet been fully adopted by narratology. By integrating cutting-edge approaches, this volume takes a step toward filling this gap and establishing interdisciplinary narrative research on complexity. Narrative Complexity provides a framework for a more complex and nuanced study of narrative and explores the experience of narrative complexity in terms of cognitive processing, affect, and mind and body engagement. Bringing together leading international scholars from a range of disciplines, this volume combines analytical effort and conceptual insight in order to relate more effectively our theories of narrative representation and complexities of intelligent behavior. This collection engages important questions on how narrative complexity functions as an agent of cultural evolution, how our understanding of narrative complexity can be extended in light of new research in the social sciences and humanities, how interactive media produce new types of narrative complexity, and how the role of embodiment as a factor of narrative complexity acquires prominence in cognitive science and media studies. The contributors explore narrative complexity transmitted through various semiotic channels, embedded in multiple contexts, and experienced across different media, including film, comics, music, interactive apps, audiowalks, and ambient literature.

Author : F. K. Stanzel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1984-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521247195

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A Theory of Narrative by F. K. Stanzel Pdf

The purpose of this book is to provide a clear and systematic account of the complexities of fictional narration which result from the shifting relationship in all storytelling between the story itself and the way it is told.

Author : John Pier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110922646

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The Dynamics of Narrative Form by John Pier Pdf

By redefining established topics of narratology, research has become highly diversified. The contributions to this volume neither synthesize developments nor work from shared postulates, but represent a fresh look at ongoing issues. Some scrutinize focalisation in a linguistic framework or in a poststructuralist vein; others take on reliable and unreliable narration in a pronominal perspective or the "unaddressed" reader who upsets the tidy schemes of narrative communication. Also outlined are a possible worlds approach to narrative time, a systematic treatment of metanarrative and a transgeneric application of narratology to poetry. The sequential ordering of narratives as a way of controlling reader response is examined in one article and in another is seen to elicit intertextual configurations. Both divergent and complementary, the contributions seek to integrate into narratological categories and methods the dynamic processes of narrative itself.

Author : Suzanne Keen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137439598

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Narrative Form by Suzanne Keen Pdf

This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions.

Author : Alojzija Zupan Sosič
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527587793

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A Theory of Narrative by Alojzija Zupan Sosič Pdf

Relying on the structure and methodology of classical and postclassical narratology, this book explores the phenomena of story and narrative, narrator, focalization, character, time and space, as well as the beginning and the ending of a narrative. It upgrades the theory of the unreliable narrator and introduces three new categories that have until now been exclusively used to refer to unreliable narrators, namely commentators, interpreters and evaluators.

Author : Melanie Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1484993969

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Narrative Dynamics by Melanie Phillips Pdf

When narrative is discussed, it is usually in terms of structure. But equally important are the forces that determine and drive the structure. These Narrative Dynamics provide the tools for devising, manipulating and disrupting narrative.In this book, co-creator of the Dramatica Theory of Story (Melanie Anne Phillips) lays out the cutting edge development of a new theory of narrative dynamics, and how it reflects not only the potentials of fiction, but the motivational drivers of real world actions and interactions.

Author : David Herman,Manfred Jahn,Marie-Laure Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1327 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134458394

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Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory by David Herman,Manfred Jahn,Marie-Laure Ryan Pdf

The past several decades have seen an explosion of interest in narrative, with this multifaceted object of inquiry becoming a central concern in a wide range of disciplinary fields and research contexts. As accounts of what happened to particular people in particular circumstances and with specific consequences, stories have come to be viewed as a basic human strategy for coming to terms with time, process, and change. However, the very predominance of narrative as a focus of interest across multiple disciplines makes it imperative for scholars, teachers, and students to have access to a comprehensive reference resource.

Author : Dan Shen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136202421

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Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction by Dan Shen Pdf

In many fictional narratives, the progression of the plot exists in tension with a very different and powerful dynamic that runs, at a hidden and deeper level, throughout the text. In this volume, Dan Shen systematically investigates how stylistic analysis is indispensable for uncovering this covert progression through rhetorical narrative criticism. The book brings to light the covert progressions in works by the American writers Edgar Allan Poe, Stephan Crane and Kate Chopin and British writer Katherine Mansfield.

Author : Raquel Da Silva,Josefin Graef,Nicolas Lemay-Hébert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000486506

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Narrative, Political Violence and Social Change by Raquel Da Silva,Josefin Graef,Nicolas Lemay-Hébert Pdf

Narrative, Political Violence and Social Change is a call for engaging actively and critically with the ontological, epistemological, and methodological implications of narrative in the study of political violence and terrorism. Building on a basic framework of three modes of narrative – as lens, as data, and as tool – the chapters in this book demonstrate how the study of political violence and terrorism benefits from narrative inquiry as an interdisciplinary endeavour, in particular as regards diverging perceptions of social reality, the meanings of belonging, and the human drive for change. They showcase the substantial advances that scholars have made in this field to date and identify promising avenues for further research. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Studies in Conflict & Terrorism.