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Erzähltheorie in mediävistischer Perspektive
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 168.00Narratology from the Perspective of Medieval Studies systematically compiles research on the ?otherness? of medieval narratives. It places a particular focus on the way that narrative forms are always linked to the meaning of narrative content. Key topics include genre, narrative patterns, connections to contemporary world knowledge, models of time... more...
Narrative, Interrupted
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00What do boring stories and seemingly insignificant details reveal about the nature of narrative? How does narrativity manifest itself in forms such as stanzaic poetry and fictional dialogue? Narrative, Interrupted probes the limits of narrativity by focusing on the anti-linear, anti-causal and non-natural tendencies of literature. The book highlights... more...
The Dynamics of Narrative Form
De Gruyter 2005; US$ 154.00With the emergence of postclassical narratology, it has become necessary to take stock of ongoing developments against the backdrop of established aspects of research in the field. The contributions to this volume employ some of the recent epistemological and methodological models in an attempt to resolve a number of unsettled issues while charting... more...
Welt - Bild - Theater
Narr Francke Attempto 2012; US$ 73.33Hauptbeschreibung Die Frage nach dem Zusammenspiel von Theater und Bild lässt sich nicht losgelöst von den medialen Komponenten beantworten, in denen dieses Zusammenspiel gegeben ist. Gleichzeitig ist es von ästhetischen Überschreitungen oder auch verschiedenen ästhetischen Einstellungen bestimmt, die nichtselten mit Medienwechseln oder auch dem... more...
Stories and Minds
UNP - Nebraska Paperback 2013; US$ 30.00How do narratives draw on our memory capacity? How is our attention guided when we are reading a literary narrative? What kind of empathy is triggered by intercultural novels? A cast of international scholars explores these and other questions from an interdisciplinary perspective in Stories and Minds , a collection of essays that discusses cutting-edge... more...
Time and Narrative, Volume 1
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 18.00Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur's earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor , of semantic innovation at the level of the sentence. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the textual level, with narrative rather than metaphor as the ruling concern. Ricoeur finds a "healthy circle" between time and narrative: time is humanized... more...
Virtual Theatres
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 40.95The first full-length book of its kind to offer an investigation of the interface between theatre, performance and digital arts, Virtual Theatres presents the theatre of the twenty-first century in which everything - even the viewer - can be simulated. In this fascinating volume, Gabriella Giannachi analyzes the aesthetic concerns of current computer-arts... more...
Narrative, Perception, Language, and Faith
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 110.00There have been many voices in disciplines as various as philosophy, history, psychology, hermeneutics, literary theory, and theology that have claimed that narrative is fundamental to all that is human. Here is a book that, in an engaging and amusing way, presents a coherent thesis to that effect, connecting the Joke and the Story (with all that comedy... more...
Narrative Bodies
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 115.00Although the body has recently emerged throughout the humanities and social sciences as an object revealing the power and limits of representation, the study of narrative has almost entirely ignored human corporeality. As this book shows, attention to the body raises uncomfortable questions about the historicity of basic narrative concepts like character,... more...
What Is Narratology?
De Gruyter 2003; US$ 182.00What 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. more...









