Theorizing Narrativity

by Pier, John

• ISBN13: 9783110202441
• ISBN10: 3110202441
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-15
• Publisher: De Gruyter

Summary

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 and narrativity, 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).

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 7
Narrrativehood, Narrativeness, Narrativity, Narratibility	p. 19
If-Plots: Narrativity and the Law-Code	p. 29
After this, therefore because of this	p. 109
Functions and Forms of Eventfulness in Narrative Fiction	p. 141
Chance in Fiction as a Privileged Index of Implied Worldviews: A Contribution to the World-Modelling Functions of Narrative Fiction	p. 165
A Pragma-stylistic Contribution to the Study of Narrativity: Standard versus Non-standard Narrativities	p. 211
Narrativity and Performativity: From Cervantes to Star Trek	p. 253
'Kaleidoscope' Narratives and the Act of Reading	p. 277
The Language of Guidance	p. 307
Diegetic and Mimetic Narrativity: Some further Steps towards a Transgeneric Narratology of Drama	p. 331
Narrative and Drama	p. 355
Transfictionality across Media	p. 385
Narrating Narrating: Twisting the Twice-Told Tale	p. 419
Author/Name Index	p. 453
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