Body as Resource of Narrative Communication: An Intersection of Corporeal Narratology with Rhetorical Narratology
Body as Resource of Narrative Communication: An Intersection of Corporeal Narratology with Rhetorical Narratology

Summary/Abstract: As a result of the ‘somatic turn’, studies of the body have gradually permeated many branches of contemporary narratology, among which corporeal narratology was born. This article surveys on the newly emerged discipline of postclassical narratology. It traces the history and key issues of corporeal narratology based on classical narratology, whose current outlook includes character, time/plot, space and differential embodiment. For a modification and expansion of its theoretical frame, corporeal narratological methodology is combined with the narrative communication model in James Phelan’s rhetorical narrative theories. This hybrid model reverses Daniel Punday’s framework based on categorizations in classical narratology. My article also offers a comprehensive interpretative pattern, adopting Punday’s theories while supplementing them. Defined as a special case of Phelan’s Author-Resources-Audience general model, my corporeal narrative communication model aims to provide a panorama for readers to systematically understand the corporeal-related meanings within the two-way narrative communications.

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