Narrative Factuality : : A Handbook / / ed. by Monika Fludernik, Marie-Laure Ryan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Altes, Liesbeth Korthals,; Ashtiany, Mohsen,; Bartmann, Marius,; Birke, Dorothee,; Borrelli, Arianna,; Caracciolo, Marco,; Contzen, Eva Von,; Detering, Nicolas,; Dietz, Hella,; Dobler, Gregor,; Finkelberg, Margalit,; Fludernik, Monika,; Franzen, Johannes,; Freeman, Mark,; Freitag, Wolfgang,; Freitas, Elsa Simões Lucas,; Gagnon, Janelle M.,; Gerrig, Richard J.,; Hinüber, Haiyan Hu-Von,; Iversen, Stefan,; Jacob, Daniel,; Jaeger, Stephan,; Klauk, Tobias,; Kleeberg, Bernhard,; Köppe, Tilmann,; Lavocat, Françoise,; Liu, Ashley,; Mair, Victor H.,; Martínez, Matías,; Mauz, Andreas,; Mckeon, Michael,; Meierhofer, Christian,; Mikkonen, Jukka,; Milne, Catherine,; Mundhenke, Florian,; Musolff, Andreas,; Packard, Stephan,; Paige, Nicholas,; Pettersson, Anders,; Phelan, James,; Rajewsky, Irina,; Renner, Karl Nikolaus,; Ryan, Marie-Laure,; Scheidt, Carl Eduard,; Sinding, Michael,; Soni, Luitgard,; Stern, Simon,; Stukenbrock, Anja,; Toral-Niehoff, Isabel,; Utas, Bo,; Walsh, Richard,; Wamitila, Kyallo Wadi,; Warhol, Robyn,; Watson, Michael,; Wolf, Mark J. P.,; Zipfel, Frank,; Zymner, Rüdiger,
• HerausgeberIn: Fludernik, Monika,; Ryan, Marie-Laure,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Revisionen : Grundbegriffe der Literaturtheorie ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 780 p.)

The study of narrative—the object of the rapidly growing discipline of narratology—has been traditionally concerned with the fictional narratives of literature, such as novels or short stories. But narrative is a transdisciplinary and transmedial concept whose manifestations encompass both the fictional and the factual. In this volume, which provides a companion piece to Tobias Klauk and Tilmann Köppe’s Fiktionalität: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, the use of narrative to convey true and reliable information is systematically explored across media, cultures and disciplines, as well as in its narratological, stylistic, philosophical, and rhetorical dimensions. At a time when the notion of truth has come under attack, it is imperative to reaffirm the commitment to facts of certain types of narrative, and to examine critically the foundations of this commitment. But because it takes a background for a figure to emerge clearly, this book will also explore nonfactual types of narratives, thereby providing insights into the nature of narrative fiction that could not be reached from the narrowly literary perspective of early narratology.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Content -- Factual Narrative: An Introduction -- I. Basic Issues: Factuality and Fictionality -- Theories of Fictionality and Their Real Other -- Factual Narration in Narratology -- Fact, Fiction and Media -- Factualities and their Dependence on Concepts of the Fictional and the Mendacious -- Typology of the Nonfactual -- Panfictionality/Panfictionalism -- The Factual in Psychology -- Is Factuality the Norm? A Perspective from Cognitive Narratology -- Is Factuality in the Eye of the Beholder? -- Metaphor, Allegory, Irony, Satire and Supposition in Factual and Fictional Narrative -- II. Truth and Reference: Philosophical and Linguistic Approaches -- The Philosophical Perspective on Truth -- Facts and Realism in Philosophy -- Truth in Literature: The Problem of Knowledge and Insight Gained from Fiction -- Reference in Philosophy -- Reference in Literature/Literary Studies -- Reference in Linguistics -- Evidentiality in Linguistics and Rhetoric -- III. Factuality across Disciplines and Media -- Factual Narratives and the Real in Therapy and Psychoanalysis -- Authenticity in Sociology and Psychology -- Factuality in Anthropology -- Factuality in Historiography/Historical Study -- Factual Narrative and Truth in Political Discourse -- Narrative and Factuality in Sociology -- Factual Narrative in Economics -- Factuality, Evidence and Truth in Factual Narratives in the Law -- Truth in (Christian) Religion and in Genres of Religious Narrative -- The Narration of Scientific Facts -- Narrative in Early Modern and Modern Science -- Empiricism and the Factual -- The Role of Factuality in Film -- Facts and Factual Narration in Journalism -- Factuality and Fictionality in Advertisements -- IV. Literary Issues: Fact, Truth and the Real -- From Mimesis to Realism: The Role of Factuality and the Real in the History of Narrative Theory and Practice -- Realism in the Nineteenth-Century Novel -- Authenticity in Narratology and in Literary Studies -- Factuality and Convention -- The Ethics of Factual Narrative -- Transgressive Narration: The Case of Autofiction -- Factual or Fictional? The Interpretive and Evaluative Impact of Framing Acts -- Pseudofactual Narratives and Signposts of Factuality -- Pseudofactuality -- Factuality and Literariness -- V. Factuality and Fictionality in Various Cultures and Historial Periods -- The Factual in Antiquity -- Diachrony: The Factual in the Middle Ages -- Factual Narrative in the Early Modern Period -- Factual Narrative in Pre-Modern China: Historiography – Its Nature, Function and Influence on Narrative Fiction -- Premodern Japanese Narratives and the Problem of Referentiality and Factuality -- Reality and Factuality of Classical Indian Narratives -- Narrative in Classical Persian Literature -- Factual Narrative in Medieval Arabic Literature -- Factual and Fictional Narratives in East African Literatures -- Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index