Narrative Travelling through Time at Play “Me, Feuerbach” Written by Tankred Dorst and Ursula Ehler-Dorst Cover Image
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Путешествие нарратива во времени. На материале драмы Танкреда Дорста „Я, Фейербах”
Narrative Travelling through Time at Play “Me, Feuerbach” Written by Tankred Dorst and Ursula Ehler-Dorst

Author(s): Gabriele Labanauskaite
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music, Visual Arts
Published by: Институт за изследване на изкуствата, Българска академия на науките

Summary/Abstract: All stories are told, now it’s important, how do we tell it – that’s what contemporary writers believe, experimenting with form and style of writing. In 1986 written play “Me, Feuerbach” by T. Dorst and U. Ehler-Dorst tells a biographic story of one actor, but writers have chosen an interesting non-linear storytelling, using various tools for expressing the narrative. That’s why the aim of paper ‘Narrative Travelling Through Time at Play‘me, Feuerbach’’ is to examine and create theoretical approaches towards analysing the time of drama. According to G. Genette, three layers of time collide in every storytelling: story (the events that are recounted), narration itself (either written or oral discourse through which the events are presented), narrative action, or narratives (the creation of the discourse being narrated wherein the storytelling is presented). Narratologists analysing prose state that not in every narration can one record the act of tell-ability (it is most often implied); therefore, in conducting the time analysis, based on G. Genette’s narratology, it is proposed to investigate the relationship between two layers – story (the events that are narrated) and narration (allocation of events in a text). Suspending certain information that is closely entwined with the reader’s / the audience’s attitude towards a character, actor Feuerbach manipulates not so much the character (he is also of the narrators), but the perceiver – certain items of information are concealed from and revealed to him which help to maintain and enhance the intrigue. One refers to the shifting of time in a play's narrative so as to the character’s state of mind. That’s why a deeper methodological glimpse will be used to analyse the play “Me, Feuerbach” through the glasses of narratology, applying ​theory of analepsis, prolepsisand elipsis.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 31-34
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Russian