ALBER, Jan and Monica FLUDERNIK [dir.], Postclassical Narratology: Approaches and Analyses, Colombus, Ohio State University Press, 2010, 323 p.
Résumé de l'éditeur:
In this volume, an international group of contributors presents new perspectives on narrative. Using David Herman’s 1999 definition of “postclassical narratology” from Narratologies: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis (OSUP) as their launching point, these eleven essayists explore the various ways in which new approaches overlap and interrelate to form new ways of understanding narrative texts.
Postclassical narratology has reached a new phase of consolidation but also continued diversification. This collection therefore discriminates between what one could call a critical but frame-abiding and a more radical frame-transcending or frame-shattering handling of the structuralist paradigm.
Postclassical Narratology: Approaches and Analyses discusses a large variety of different aspects of narrative, such as extensions of classical narratology, new generic applications (autobiography, oral narratives, poetry, painting, and film), the history of narratology, the issue of fictionality, the role of cognition, and questions of authorship and authority, as well as thematic matters related to ethics, gender, and queering. Additionally, it uses a wide spectrum of critical approaches, including feminism, psychoanalysis, media studies, the rhetorical theory of narrative, unnatural narratology, and cognitive studies. In this manner the essays manage to produce new insights into many key issues in narratology.
The contributors also demonstrate that narratologists nowadays see the object of their research as more variegated than was the case twenty years ago: they resort to a number of different methods in combination when approaching a problem, and they tend to ground their analyses in a rich contextual framework.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction Monika Fludernik Fludernik, Monika 1
PART I Extensions and Reconfigurations of Classical Narratology
35 Richard Walsh, « Person, Level, Voice: A Rhetorical Reconsideration »
58 Werner Wolf, « Mise en Cadre—A Neglected Counterpart to Mise en Abyme: A Frame-Theoretical and Intermedial Complement to Classical Narratology »
83 Alan Palmer,« Large Intermental Units in Middlemarch »
105 Monika Fludernik, « Mediacy, Mediation, and Focalization: The Squaring of Terminological Circles »
PART II Transdisciplinarities
137 David Herman, « Directions in Cognitive Narratology: Triangulating Stories, Media, and the Mind »
163 Jan Alber, « Hypothetical Intentionalism: Cinematic Narration Reconsidered »
186 Susan S. Lanser, « Sapphic Dialogics: Historical Narratology and the Sexuality of Form »
206 Amit Marcus, « Narrators, Narratees, and Mimetic Desire »
234 Jarmila Mildorf, « Narratology and the Social Sciences »
255 Martin Loschnigg, « Postclassical Narratology and the Theory of Autobiography »
275 Henrik Skov Nielsen, « Natural Authors, Unnatural Narration »
303 Contributors
307 Author Index
315 Subject Index