Unnatural Narratives - Unnatural Narratology / / ed. by Jan Alber, Rüdiger Heinze.

In recent years, the study of unnatural narratives has become an exciting new but still disparate research program in narrative theory. For the first time, this collection of essays presents and discusses the new analytical tools that have so far been developed on the basis of unnatural novels, shor...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:linguae & litterae : Publications of the School of Language and Literature Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies , 9
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Physical Description:1 online resource (273 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • I. Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives
  • What Is Unnatural Narrative Theory?
  • The Diachronic Development of Unnaturalness: A New View on Genre
  • II. Unnatural Narrators and Minds
  • Unnatural Narratology, Impersonal Voices, Real Authors, and Non-Communicative Narration
  • “In flaming flames”: Crises of Experientiality in Non-Fictional Narratives
  • Toward a Hybrid Approach to the Unnatural: ‘Reading for the Consciousness’ and the Psychodynamics of Experientiality in Caryl Churchill’s Heart’s Desire
  • III. Unnatural Time and Causality
  • Narrative Causality Denaturalized
  • Hollywood Goes Computer Game: Narrative Remediation in the Time-Loop Quests Groundhog Day and 12:01
  • Backmasked Messages: On the Fabula Construction in Episodically Reversed Narratives
  • IV. Unnatural Worlds and Events
  • Unnatural Narrative and Metalepsis: Grant Morrison’s Animal Man
  • Unnatural Worlds and Unnatural Narration in Comics?. A Critical Examination
  • Natural or Unnatural?. Linguistic Deep Level Structures in AbE: A Case Study of New South Wales Aboriginal English
  • Bio Notes