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Analyzing World Fiction: New Horizons in Narrative Theory
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Analyzing World Fiction: New Horizons in Narrative Theory

Why are many readers drawn to stories that texture ethnic experiences and identities other than their own? How do authors such as Salman Rushdie and Maxine Hong Kingston, or filmmakers in Bollywood or Mexico City produce complex fiction that satisfies audiences worldwide? In Analyzing World Fiction, fifteen renowned luminaries use tools of narratology and insights from cognitive science and neurobiology to provide answers to these questions and more.
 
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Tags: World, Analyzing, Fiction, tools, narratology
Logic and Humour in the Fabliaux - An Essay in Applied Narratology
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Logic and Humour in the Fabliaux - An Essay in Applied NarratologyLogic and Humour in the Fabliaux - An Essay in Applied Narratology

Joseph Bédier's 1893 definition of the fabliaux as 'funny stories in verse' is still widely accepted as the best brief and general description for a heterogeneous collection of texts. But the heterogeneity creates difficulties and at the periphery of the canon all three of the criteria included in Bédier's definition are open to question. The inventory proposed in the current study is based on a new structural definition, a conjointure, akin to that of romance, combining a logical episteme with a rhetorical narreme.
 
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Tags: definition, eacute, based, structural, romance, Narratology, Logic, Applied
What Is Narratology? - Questions and Answers Regarding the Status of a Theory
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What Is Narratology? - Questions and Answers Regarding the Status of a TheoryWhat Is Narratology? - Questions and Answers Regarding the Status of a Theory

What Is Narratology? sees itself as contributing to the intensive international discussion and controversy on the structure and function of narrative theory. The 14 papers in the volume advance proposals for determining the object of narratology, modelling its concepts and characterising its status within cultural studies.
 
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Tags: Narratology, characterising, status, concepts, modelling, Status, Regarding, Theory, Answers
Narratology - The Form and Functioning of Narrative
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Narratology - The Form and Functioning of NarrativeNarratology - The Form and Functioning of Narrative

In Narratology, Gerald Prince notes that narratology includes all narratives, even those that aren't great or literary or interesting (yes!), and that studying narratology "is to study one of the fundamental ways -- and a singularly human one at that -- in which we make sense. Ultimately, narratology can help us understand what human beings are" (164). Narrating (ch1) and Reading Narrative (ch4) are more pertinent for those interested in the structure/creation of narratives and their reception. Narrated (ch2), Narrative Grammar (ch3) and Narrativity (ch5) focus more on the content of narratives. Narrative Grammar is particularly technical in that respect.
 
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Tags: Narrative, narratology, narratives, human, Grammar, Narratology
Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative
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Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative

Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become a classic introduction to the major elements of a comprehensive theory of narrative texts. In this second edition, Professor Bal broadens the spectrum of her theoretical model, updating the chapters on literary narrative and adding new examples from outside the field of literary studies. Some specific additions include discussions on dialogue in narrative, translation as transformation (including translation between different media), intertextuality, interdiscursivity, and the place of the subject in narratology.

 
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Tags: narrative, translation, Narratology, literary, dialogue