Narratology in Practice draws on various cultural domains to explain the ways in which theory illuminates the presence of narrative.
Author: Mieke Bal
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9781442628373
Category: Narration (Rhetoric).
Page: 205
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Narratology in Practice draws on various cultural domains to explain the ways in which theory illuminates the presence of narrative.... but on the procedures that can guarantee the narratological system of practice 's integrity. More particularly, I will try to sketch what I believe to be a rational modus operandi for formulating narratology's fundamental concepts ...
Author: Tom Kindt
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110202069
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 378
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“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.Firstly, it has been addressed in rhetorical narratology – a practice of literary criticism and analysis; secondly, in rhetorical discourse whi examines narratives within communications; and finally, rhetoric has been applied to ...
Author: Nicole Basaraba
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781000577839
Category: Social Science
Page: 232
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Transmedia Narratives for Cultural Heritage focuses on theoretical approaches to the analysis and creative practice of developing non-fiction digital transmedia narratives in the rapidly growing cultural heritage sector. This book applies a media-focused transdisciplinary approach to understand the conventions of emerging digital narrative genres. Considering digital media’s impact on narrative creation and reception, the approach, namely remixed transmedia, can aid practitioners in creating strategic non-fiction narratives for cultural heritage. These creations also need to be evaluated and a digital-media focused ‘ludonarrative toolkit’ allows for the critical analysis of the composition and public participation in interactive digital narratives. This toolkit is applied and exemplified in genres including virtual museums, serious games, and interactive documentaries. The book also includes a seven-phase theoretical framework that can assist future creators (and project managers) of non-fiction transmedia ‘mothership’ narratives; and a methodology (based on ‘big data analysis’) for how to invent new cultural heritage narratives through bottom-up remixing that allows for public inclusion. Two transnational case studies on the 11 UNESCO World Heritage Australian Convict Sites and the Irish National Famine Way demonstrate the seven-phase framework’s applicability. As many scholars across disciplines are increasingly creating digital narratives on historical topics for public consumption in various forms, the theoretical foundations and practical project management framework will be useful for scholars and project teams in the domains of transmedia studies, interactive narratives, cultural heritage, media studies, comparative literature, and journalism.Practice. of. Narrative. in. Plato. Stephen. Halliwell. All narrative discourse, from the simplest to the most sophisticated, imposes a perspectival structure on temporal experience. To that extent, all narrative can be categorised and ...
Author: Jonas Grethlein
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110214529
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 630
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The categories of classical narratology have been successfully applied to ancient texts in the last two decades, but in the meantime narratological theory has moved on. In accordance with these developments, Narratology and Interpretation draws out the subtler possibilities of narratological analysis for the interpretation of ancient texts. The articles make a contribution to the theory of narrative as well as to our understanding of ancient literature including epic, lyric, tragedy and historiography.5.2 Ancient narratological terms and concepts in the Homeric scholia Received readings of the scholia repeatedly stress their value as illustrations of ancient literary theory in practice.” But the scholia reception of Plato, Aristotle, ...
Author: Genevieve Liveley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192524430
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 320
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This volume explores the extraordinary contribution that classical poetics has made to twentieth and twenty-first century theories of narrative, aiming not to argue that modern narratologies simply present 'old wine in new wineskins', but rather to identify the diachronic affinities shared between ancient and modern stories about storytelling. By recognizing that modern narratologists bring a particular expertise to bear upon ancient literary theory, and by interrogating ancient and modern narratologies through the mutually imbricating dynamics of their reception, it seeks to arrive at a better understanding of both. Each chapter selects a key moment in the history of narratology on which to focus, providing an overview of significant phases before offering detailed analyses of core theories and texts, from the Russian formalists and Chicago school neo-Aristotelians, through the prestructuralists, structuralists, and poststructuralists, up to the latest unnatural and antimimetic narratologists. The reception history that thus unfolds offers some remarkable plot twists and yields valuable insights into the interpretation of some notoriously difficult ancient works. Plato in the Republic is unmasked as an unreliable narrator and theorist, while Aristotle's On Poets reveals a rare glimpse of the philosopher putting narrative theory into practice in the role of storyteller. Horace's Ars Poetica and the works of ancient scholia by critics and commentators evince a rhetorically conceived poetics and sophisticated reader-response-based narratology which indicate a keen interest in audience affect and cognition - anticipating the cognitive turn in narratology's most recent postclassical phase.While this gap between program and implementation remains a persistent problem, one still needs to acknowledge the impressive diversification and sophistication of narratological practice from the 1980s onward—as well as the fact that ...
Author: Jan-Noël Thon
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803277205
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 558
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It has become something of a clich� within the field of narratology to assert the commercial, aesthetic, and sociocultural relevance of narrative representations, but the fact remains that narratives are everywhere. Whenever we read a novel or a comic, watch a film or an episode of our favorite television series, or play the latest video game, we are likely to engage with narrative media. Similarly, the intermedial adaptations and transmedial entertainment franchises that have become increasingly visible during the past few decades are, at their core, narrative forms. Since a significant part of contemporary media culture is defined by the narratives we tell each other via various media, the media studies discipline needs a genuinely transmedial narratology. Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture focuses on the intersubjective construction of storyworlds as well as on prototypical forms of narratorial and subjective representation. It provides not only a method for the analysis of salient transmedial strategies of narrative representation in contemporary films, comics, and video games but also a theoretical frame within which medium-specific approaches from literary and film narratology, from comics studies and game studies, and from various other strands of media and cultural studies may be employed to further our understanding of narratives across media.Past into Present: Effective Techniques for First-Person Historical Interpretation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Ryan, Marie-Laure. 2014. 'Story/Worlds/Media: Tuning the Instruments of a MediaConscious Narratology'.
Author: Michal Mochocki
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781000367645
Category: Art
Page: 292
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Role-play as a Heritage Practice is the first book to examine physically performed role-enactments, such as live-action role-play (LARP), tabletop role-playing games (TRPG), and hobbyist historical reenactment (RH), from a combined game studies and heritage studies perspective. Demonstrating that non-digital role-plays, such as TRPG and LARP, share many features with RH, the book contends that all three may be considered as heritage practices. Studying these role-plays as three distinct genres of playful, participatory and performative forms of engagement with cultural heritage, Mochocki demonstrates how an exploration of the affordances of each genre can be valuable. Showing that a player’s engagement with history or heritage material is always multi-layered, the book clarifies that the layers may be conceptualised simultaneously as types of heritage authenticity and as types of in-game immersion. It is also made clear that RH, TRPG and LARP share commonalities with a multitude of other media, including video games, historical fiction and film. Existing within, and contributing to, the fiction and non-fiction mediasphere, these role-enactments are shaped by the same large-scale narratives and discourses that persons, families, communities, and nations use to build memory and identity. Role-play as a Heritage Practice will be of great interest to academics and students engaged in the study of heritage, memory, nostalgia, role-playing, historical games, performance, fans and transmedia narratology.Despite theenormous potential of narratology for the studyand practice ofreligious education, references to narratological theoryin Christian pedagogy are rare. Yet some studies do adopt narratological theory such as Scholz and ...
Author: Peter Hühn
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 9783110382075
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 954
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This handbook provides a systematic overview of the present state of international research in narratology and is now available in a second, completely revised and expanded edition.Detailed individual studies by internationally renowned narratologists elucidate central terms of narratology, present a critical account of the major research positions and their historical development and indicate directions for future research.Constructive approaches beyond analytical tactics will be possible as the cognitive approach and practice will enable revisiting the area of the previous narratology. On the other hand, from the sides of computational and cognitive ...
Author: Ogata, Takashi
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 9781522579809
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 521
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Studying narratives is an ideal method to gain a good understanding of how various aspects of human information are organized and integrated. The concept and methods of a narrative, which have been explored in narratology and literary theories, are likely to be connected with contemporary information studies in the future, including those in computational fields such as AI, and in cognitive science. This will result in the emergence of a significant conceptual and methodological foundation for various technologies of novel contents, media, human interface, etc. Post-Narratology Through Computational and Cognitive Approaches explores the new possibilities and directions of narrative-related technologies and theories and their implications on the innovative design, development, and creation of future media and contents (such as automatic narrative or story generation systems) through interdisciplinary approaches to narratology that are dependent on computational and cognitive studies. While highlighting topics including artificial intelligence, narrative analysis, and rhetoric generation, this book is ideally designed for designers, creators, developers, researchers, and advanced-level students.Such a study would require a large-scale inquiry into discursive practices such as those of history, biography, personal diaries, newspaper accounts, police reports, judicial narratives' [Chapter author's italics].6 Narratology examines ...
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004291829
Category: History
Page: 518
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Spoken Word and Social Practice: Orality in Europe (1400-1700) aims to recapture words spoken in medieval and early modern times, tracking women’s voices, on trial, or bantering and gossiping, and tracing those of princes, priests, and magistrates, townsmen, villagers, mariners, bandits, and songsmiths.