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Understanding Metalepsis
Understanding Metalepsis provides a state-of-the-art overview of the narratological concept of metalepsis and develops new ways of investigating the forms and functions of metaleptic narratives. Informed by a hermeneutic perspective, this study offers not only an account of the complexities that characterize the process of understanding metaleptic phenomena, but also metatheoretical insights into the hermeneutics of narratology.
Handbook of Diachronic Narratology
This handbook brings together 42 contributions by leading narratologists devoted to the study of narrative devices in European literatures from antiquity to the present. Each entry examines the use of a specific narrative device in one or two national literatures across the ages, whether in successive or distant periods of time. Through the analysis of representative texts in a range of European languages, the authors compellingly trace the continuities and evolution of storytelling devices, as well as their culture-specific manifestations. In response to Monika Fludernik’s 2003 call for a "diachronization of narratology," this new handbook complements existing synchronic approaches that t...
What Made the Eighteenth Century Writers and Their Novels
This book examines eighteenth-century novels, with a focus on the skills that readers were expected to master in order to read these works. It analyses how such skills were shaped by the cultural and political climate of the time. Starting with a review of the debate on education that began in England in the eighteenth-century and the way it was influenced by philosophers such as John Locke, it then discusses the demands that novelists like Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, Godwin, Smollett and Richardson made concerning this subject. Various scientific, philosophical, religious and linguistic theories are used to examine the issues above: Chaos Theory, Wittgenstein’s idea of “logical space”, Grice’s cooperative principle, Aristotle’s poetics and de Molinos’ Quietism.
Making Time
2023 Perkins Prize of the International Society for the Study of Narrative ESSE Book Award for Junior Scholars for a book in the field of Literatures in the English Language Responding to the current surge in present-tense novels, Making Time is an innovative contribution to narratological research on present-tense usage in narrative fiction. Breaking with the tradition of conceptualizing the present tense purely as a deictic category denoting synchronicity between a narrative event and its presentation, the study redefines present-tense narration as a fully-fledged narrative strategy whose functional potential far exceeds temporal relations between story and discourse. The first part of the...
Ma Yuan
A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Ma Yuan: The Chinese Avant-Garde, Metafiction, and Post-Postmodernism in the works of Ma Yuan provides the most comprehensive study to date on one of China’s most influential contemporary authors, Ma Yuan. By engaging in close readings of narratologically complex works of metafiction, the author offers a reappraisal of the role Ma Yuan played within the rise of postmodern fiction within China and offers new interpretive possibilities for the Chinese Avant-Garde movement of the 1980s through demonstrating that rather than being predominantly ‘formalist word games’ or ‘narrative traps’, Ma Yuan’s works of metafiction functioned as Fo...
Deuteronomy and the Material Transmission of Tradition
Deuteronomy and the inscribed texts depicted within it are often called “books.” Moreover, its treatment of writing has earned it a prominent place in historical accounts of the religion of ancient Israel and Judah. Neither Deuteronomy nor its text-artifacts, however, are books in any conventional sense of the term. This interdisciplinary study reorients the analysis of Deuteronomic textuality around the materiality, visuality, and rhetoric of ancient rather than modern media. It argues that the Deuteronomic composition adapts the media aesthetics of ancient treaty tablets and monumental inscriptions to a story that is itself transformed into an artifact of the past.
Tobias Smollett After 300 Years:
Tobias Smollett After 300 Years offers a collection of essays on one of the great literary figures of the eighteenth century: the Scottish writer, Tobias Smollett (1721–1771). Drawing together the work of an international group of scholars, with a variety of critical approaches, the book examines aspects of Smollett’s life, writing and reputation on the three-hundredth anniversary of his birth.
Ordnungsmuster im Werk von Kurt Schwitters
Die literarische Produktion des Avantgarde-Künstlers Kurt Schwitters wurde in der Forschung bisher maßgeblich unter der Prämisse der Subversion von Ordnung betrachtet. Die Autorin zeigt hingegen, ausgehend von einer breit angelegten semiotischen Untersuchung der Kunst von Schwitters, wie die Transgression bestehender Ordnungskategorien wie Autorschaft, Gattung und Kunstform bei Schwitters mit der Etablierung alternativer Muster jenseits disziplinärer Grenzen einhergeht. Die Studie beschreibt, wie literarische und bildkünstlerische Werke gleichermaßen durch die herausgearbeiteten Ordnungsmuster strukturiert sind. Ebenso erweisen sich auf diese Weise Hybridgegenstände an der Grenze von ...
Robert Gernhardt: Theorie und Lyrik. Erfolgreiche komische Literatur in ihrem gesellschaftlichen und medialen Kontext
Als „Alleskönner“, „zeitgenössischer Lyrik-Star“ und „Klassiker schon zu Lebzeiten“ ist der Dichter Robert Gernhardt (1937–2006) von Kritikern geadelt worden. Doch wie kam es zur Kanonisierung, wo er doch seine Karriere als Otto-Waalkes-Texter und „Titanic“-Gründer begann? Theorie und Lyrik des poeta doctus werden in diesem Band erstmalig als Gesamtwerk untersucht und in ihre gesellschaftlichen und medialen Kontexte eingeordnet, also u. a. anhand vorheriger und zeitgenössischer Poetik-Entwürfe und Komik-Theorien analysiert. Kenntnis- und detailreich untersucht der Autor Gernhardts ge- und berühmte Lyrik mit ihren Parodien, Satiren, nonsens-geprägten und komikreichen,...
Remembering Transitions
This volume offers critical perspectives on memories of political and socioeconomic ‘transitions’ that took place between the 1970s and 1990s across the globe and that inaugurated the end of the Cold War. The essays respond to a wealth of recent works of literature, film, theatre, and other media in different languages that rethink the transformations of those decades in light of present-day crises. The authors scrutinize the enduring silences produced by established frameworks of memory and time and explore the mnemonic practices that challenge these frameworks by positing radical ambivalence or by articulating new perspectives and subjectivities. As a whole, the volume contributes to current debates and theory-making in critical memory studies by reflecting on how the changing recollection of transitions constitutes a response to the crisis of memory and time regimes, and how remembering these times as crises renders visible continuities between this past and the present. It is a valuable resource for academics, students, practitioners, and general readers interested in exploring the dynamics of memory in post-authoritarian societies.
