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Einführung in die Erzähltextanalyse.
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ISBN: 9783476022264 3476022269 3476050564 Year: 2008 Publisher: Stuttgart J.B. Metzler

Historical romance fiction : heterosexuality and performativity.
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ISBN: 9780754662020 9781315586854 9781317121763 9781317121770 Year: 2008 Publisher: Aldershot Ashgate

Romantic prose fiction
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ISBN: 9789027234568 9027234566 9786612152306 1282152300 9027291640 9789027291646 9781282152304 Year: 2008 Volume: 23 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,

Theorizing narrativity
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ISSN: 16128427 ISBN: 9783110202441 3110202441 3110969807 Year: 2008 Volume: 12 Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter,

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Theorizing Narrativity is a collective work by an international array of leading specialists in narrative theory. It provides new perspectives on the nature of narrative, genre theory, narrative semiotics and communication theory. Most contributions center on the specificity of literary fiction, but each chapter investigates a different dimension of narrativity with many issues dealt with in innovative ways (including oral storytelling, the law, video games, causality, intertextuality and the theory of reading). There are chapters by Gerald Prince on narrativehood and narrativity, Meir Sternberg on the narrativity of the law-code, Werner Wolf on chance and Peter Hühn on eventfulness in fiction, Jukka Tyrkkö on kaleidoscope narratives, Marie-Laure Ryan on transfictionality and computer games, Ansgar Nünning and Roy Sommer as well as Monika Fludernik on the narrativity of drama, Beatriz Penas on (non)standard narrativities, David Rudrum on narrativity and performativity, Michael Toolan on textual guidance, John Pier on causality and retrospection, and José Ángel García Landa on retelling and represented narrations.


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A theory of narrative.
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ISBN: 9780231144292 9780231144285 0231144288 0231144296 9780231513128 0231513127 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York Columbia university press


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Unzuverlässiges Erzählen und literarische Moderne : Eine Untersuchung der Romane von Ernst Weiß
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ISBN: 9783484181847 3484181842 3119164178 9786612197185 1282197185 3484970324 9783484970328 Year: 2008 Volume: 184 Publisher: Tübingen : Max Niemeyer Verlag,

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The book examines the work of the Austrian Jewish writer Ernst Weiss (1882-1940), which has only recently been regaining the recognition it was accorded in the inter-war years. A critical study of Weiss' most important texts, from his first novel Die Galeere [The Galley] (1913) through to his novel Der Augenzeuge [The Eye-Witness] written in exile in 1939 gives an overview of the development of his complete works, of its guiding ideas, striking changes of direction, central influences and position in the history of literature.


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Narrative beginnings : theories and practices.
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ISBN: 9780803239746 Year: 2008 Publisher: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press

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George Eliot wrote that 'man cannot do without the make-believe of a beginning.' "Beginnings", it turns out, can be quite unusual, complex, and deceptive. The first major volume to focus on this critical but neglected topic, this collection brings together theoretical studies and critical analyses of beginnings in a wide range of narrative works spanning several centuries and genres. The international and interdisciplinary scope of these essays, representing every major theoretical perspective - including feminist, cognitive, postcolonial, postmodern, rhetorical, ethnic, narratological, and hypertext studies - extends from classic literary fiction to nonfictional discourse to popular culture. The authors, respected scholars and emerging critics, ask what conventions structure our understanding of beginnings before we encounter them; how best to analyze and comprehend beginnings in historical, traditional, and postmodern works; and how endings are (often unexpectedly) related to beginnings. The contributors use historical, political, narratological, and psychological frameworks to pursue these and related questions in works by Laurence Sterne, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Manuel Puig, Salman Rushdie, Julia Alvarez, and feminist hypertext fiction. Together their essays comprise the single most important volume for theorizing and understanding narrative beginnings.

Computing Action
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ISBN: 3110176289 9786612195501 1282195506 3110201798 9783110201796 9783110176285 Year: 2008 Publisher: Berlin, New York Walter de Gruyter

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Der theoretische Schwerpunkt der Arbeit liegt auf der Episode als der kleinsten geschlossenen Einheit erzählter Handlung. Die Episode wird definiert als ein Interpretationskonstrukt des Lesers, der eine Reihe distinkter Sachverhalte in der fiktionalen Welt als eine transformationelle Serie aus genau zwei Ereignissen konstruiert. Dieser Vorgang hat den konkreten Text zur Basis; er bezieht jedoch darüber hinaus sowohl das Weltwissen des Lesers ein und verläuft in Abhängigkeit von bestimmten logischen und semiotischen Regeln, die den Status von De-facto-Universalien des Lesens von Handlung besitzen. Neben der Formulierung neuer Definitionen für die Kernbegriffe Ereignis, Episode und Handlung stellt die Arbeit in einem computerphilologischen Teil eine neu entwickelte Softwareanwendung vor, die als Werkzeug zur Identifizierung, Auszeichnung und Analyse von Ereignissen im narrativen Text dienen kann. “Computing Action” takes a new approach to the phenomenon of narrated action in literary texts. It begins with a survey of philosophical approaches to the concept of action, ranging from analytical to transcendental and finally constructivist definitions. This leads to the formulation of a new model of action, in which the core definitions developed in traditional structuralist narratology and Greimassian semiotics are reconceptualised in the light of constructivist theories. In the second part of the study, the combinatory model of action proposed is put into practice in the context of a computer-aided investigation of the action constructs logically implied by narrative texts. Two specialised literary computing tools were developed for the purposes of this investigation of textual data: EVENTPARSER, an interactive tool for parsing events in literary texts, and EPITEST, a tool for subjecting the mark-up files thus produced to a combinatory analysis of the episode and action constructs they contain. The third part of the book presents a case study of Goethe's “Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten”. Here, the practical application of theory and methodology eventually leads to a new interpretation of Goethe's famous Novellenzyklus as a systematic experiment in the narrative construction of action - an experiment intended to demonstrate not only Goethe's aesthetic principles, but also, and more fundamentally, his epistemological convictions.

Narrative unreliability in the twentieth-century first-person novel
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ISBN: 9783110206302 3110206307 9783110209389 9786611993214 1281993212 3110209381 Year: 2008 Volume: 14 Publisher: Berlin New York De Gruyter

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This volume deals with the occurrence and development of unreliable first-person narration in twentieth century Western literature. The different articles in this collection approach this topic both from the angle of literary theory and through a detailed reading of literary texts. By addressing questions concerning the functions, characteristics and types of unreliability, this collection contributes to the current theoretical debate about unreliable narration. At the same time, the collection highlights the different uses to which unreliability has been put in different contexts, poetical traditions and literary movements. It does so by tracing the unreliable first-person narrator in a variety of texts from Dutch, German, American, British, French, Italian, Polish, Danish and Argentinean literature. In this way, this volume significantly extends the traditional 'canon' of narrative unreliability. This collection combines essays from some of the foremost theoreticians of unreliability (James Phelan, Ansgar Nünning) with essays from experts in different national traditions. The result is a collection that approaches the 'case' of narrative unreliability from a new and more varied perspective.


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Chronique d'une imposture assumée : l'émission choc du 13 décembre 2006
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ISBN: 9782873865436 2873865431 Year: 2008 Publisher: Bruxelles Racine RTBF

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