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The Narratee as Protagonist

The Narratee as Protagonist

Author(s): Grzegorz Maziarczyk / Language(s): English / Issue: 05/2006

Keywords: narratee; protagonist; multipersoned narrative; second-person narrative

Adresat narracji, któremu zwykle przypisywana jest marginalna pozycja w strukturze danego utworu, może w pewnych przypadkach stać się protagonistą (tzn. głównym bohaterem) tekstu, w którym się pojawia. Do tego typu sytuacji dochodzi w omawianych w powyższym artykule przykładach tekstów wieloosobowych i drugoosobowych zaczerpniętych ze współczesnej literatury anglojęzycznej. Wykorzystują one narrację wielo- i drugoosobową w sposób, który jednoznacznie sygnalizuje funkcję allokucyjną zaimka drugoosobowego. Pojawienie się w narracji poleceń lub pytań skierowanych do „ty”, czy też ujawnienie się „ja” narratora świadczy to tym, iż funkcje adresata narracji i protagonisty zostają przypisane tej samej postaci. Poprzez szczegółowe opisy przeżyć, refleksji i emocji protagonisty-adresata narracji tekst sytuuje go jako postać o określonej tożsamości na poziomie świata przedstawionego. Ta ekstremalna konkretyzacja utrudnia, a czasami wręcz uniemożliwia identyfikację czytelnika z „ty” przywoływanym w danym utworze.

Flyvbjerg, Bent: Rationality and Power. Democracy in Practive

Flyvbjerg, Bent: Racionalita a moc. Demokracia v praxi

Author(s): Tatiana Sedová / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/1999

Author, Narrator, and Literary Character:A Study of Xenophon’s Anabasis

Author, Narrator, and Literary Character:A Study of Xenophon’s Anabasis

Author(s): Jacek Hajduk / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2013

Keywords: Xenophon; Anabasis; Greek prose; author; implied author; narratology; narrator; narratee; narrative; literary character

The article discusses Xenophon’s Anabasis. Its main aim is to present some new research perspectives for Classical Studies. It analyzes such aspects of Xenophon’s opus as author, implied author, narrator, narratee and narrative, as well as literary character and the human context. The article is a sort of introduction to narratological studies, concerning classical narrative texts, which has not so far been thoroughly tested for its inner structure.

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Spis treści (wersja angielska)

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2013

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SPIS TREŚCI

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): / Issue: 4/2006

Keywords: Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny; nr4; 2006; Spis treści

On the embedded cognition of non-verbal narratives

On the embedded cognition of non-verbal narratives

Author(s): Luis Emilio Bruni,Sarune Baceviciute / Language(s): English / Issue: 2-3/2014

Keywords: Non-verbal narratives; narrative cognition; digital culture; semiotics; multi-modal; digital technologies

Acknowledging that narratives are an important resource in human communication and cognition, the focus of this article is on the cognitive aspects of involvement with visual and auditory non-verbal narratives, particularly in relation to the newest immersive media and digital interactive representational technologies. We consider three relevant trends in narrative studies that have emerged in the 60 years of cognitive and digital revolution. The issue at hand could have implications for developmental psychology, pedagogics, cognitive science, cognitive psychology, ethology and evolutionary studies of language. In particular, it is of great importance for narratology in relation to interactive media and new representational technologies.Therefore we outline a research agenda for a bio-cognitive semiotic interdisciplinary investigation into how people understand, react to, and interact with narratives that are communicated through non-verbal modalities.

Narrative between Transtextuality and Intermediality

Pasakojimas tarp transtekstualumo ir intermedialumo

Author(s): John Pier / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 2/2017

Keywords: Transtextuality; Intermediality; John Pier; narratology; translation;

John Pier is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Tours (France), researcher at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Paris) and a literary scholar of the 19-20th century English literature. He is one of the most active representatives of contemporary postclassical narratology dedicated to interdisciplinary, intertextual, and interactive narrative studies. Pier is one of the founders of the European Narratology Network, in 2013-2015 was its chairman. He is the author of many narratology publications, such as The Dynamics of Narrative Form (2004), Métalepses. Entorses au pacte de la représentation (2005), Théorie du récit. L’apport de la recherche allemande (2005), Theorizing Narrativity (2008), Narratologies contemporaines (2010), Handbook of Narratology (2014), Jan Mukařovský: Écrits 1928-1946 (2017) and Emerging Vectors of Narratology (2017). On May 18-24, 2016 he gave a few lectures to graduate and doctoral students in comparative studies at the Department of Lithuanian and Comparative Literature of Lithuanian University of Educational Studies. He kindly agreed to publishing his notes translated into Lithuanian (translator Dalia Cidzikaitė).

Book-Review

Recenzija, Prikaz

Author(s): Jennifer Harrison / Language(s): English / Issue: 01/2018

Keywords: Book review; Marek C. Oziewicz; Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction;

Review of: Marek C. Oziewicz. 2015. Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction: A Cognitive Reading. New York: Routledge. 257 pp. ISBN: 978-1-138-80943-7

Facets of transfictionality

Wymiary transfikcjonalności

Author(s): Krzysztof M. Maj / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 30/2018

Keywords: transfictionality; intertextuality; world-building; narrative metalepsis; theory of fiction; narratology; postclassical narratology;

The article Facets of Transfictionality delivers a concise analysis of the newly-introduced narratological concept of “transfictionality” (put forward by Richard Saint-Gelais in the early 2000s). The author discusses the phenomenon as emerging on the border between the text-centred poetics of classical narratology and the world-centred poetics of postclassical narratology by use of Jan-Noël Thon’s and Marie-Laure Ryan’s project of “media-conscious narratology”. Defined as such, transfictionality allows the contemporary phenomena of retelling or cross-over to be described without the necessity of reproducing fan-made concepts and terms of such ilk, and instead rooting them in established theoretical constructs, such as narrative metalepsis. Consequently, the article illustrates the postclassical theory of narrative and the theory of literature with examples more common to media studies, with the aim being to emphasise Ryan’s thesis that transmediality is only a specific case of transfictionality, and that the latter is a far older and better acknowledged concept what is generally understood as the theory of fiction.

“I tell, therefore you are”: Identity in The Handmaid’s Tale. A comparison between the novel and the series

“I tell, therefore you are”: Identity in The Handmaid’s Tale. A comparison between the novel and the series

Author(s): Saartje Gobyn / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

Keywords: transmedial narratology; remediation; metanarrative comments; interior monologue; identity;

This article compares the narrative representation, and more specifically the identity (de-) construction, of the main character in the novel The Handmaid’s Tale and in the first season of the eponymous series. To do so, I draw on the concepts of transmedial narratology as elaborated by Thon (2015, 2016) and Ryan (2014), that stresses that some narratological concepts originally applied to literary texts (as for example storyworlds, characters, the distinction story/discourse) are useful to analyze narrative representations in other media as well. One of the principal means in literature to represent the inner world of a character is the interior monologue. How is the interior monologue used in both the novel and the series? How does this use influence the plot in both media? And does the medium in any way determine the use of the interior monologue? Furthermore, I connect the narrative representation of the main character to the principle of remediation and demonstrate that her portrayal is inextricably linked to the medium in both series and novel.

Marco Arnaudo, "Storytelling in the Modern Board Game. Narrative Trends from the Late 1960s to Today", Studies in Gaming, McFarland and Company, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2018, 226 p.,

Marco Arnaudo, "Storytelling in the Modern Board Game. Narrative Trends from the Late 1960s to Today", Studies in Gaming, McFarland and Company, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2018, 226 p.,

Author(s): Andrei Alexandru Achim / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2019

How to reconcile the classical and postclassical

Jak smířit klasické s postklasickým

Author(s): Zuzana Fonioková / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 4/2019

Keywords: critical analysis; theory of literature; middle ages; narratology;

Nejprve připomeňme hlavní příčiny stížnosti na stav bádání, kterou ve své studii-manifestu Eva von Contzen formuluje. V medievistice to je — respektive v některých filologiích donedávna byl — malý zájem specialistů o rozbor složek a struktur vyprávění. Na druhé, naratologické straně je to vnímání středověku jako z literárního hlediska méněcenného období, jehož narativy neskýtají mnoho podnětů k analýze diskurzu. Jinak řečeno, je tu patrná disproporcionalita zájmů i hodnotových postojů jednotlivých disciplín.

Navigating between Real and Virtual Storyworlds

Navigating between Real and Virtual Storyworlds

Author(s): Inna Livytska / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Review of: Bell, Alice, and Marie-Laure Ryan. Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology, edited by Alice Bell and Marie-Laure Ryan, U of Nebraska P, 2019, 354 pp.

Extension of Avant-Garde Practices towards New Media: Possible Theoretical Readings of Documentary Art Film Segunda Vez

Extension of Avant-Garde Practices towards New Media: Possible Theoretical Readings of Documentary Art Film Segunda Vez

Author(s): Natalija Rajčinovska Pavleska / Language(s): English / Issue: 24/2021

Keywords: happening; re-performing; documentary film; conceptual narratology; semiotics.

The subject of this analysis is the 94-minute documentary art film Segunda Vez (Second Time Around, 2018) by contemporary Spanish artist Dora Garcia, whose script consists of six separate sections arranged in an authentic narrative whole. The content of the film material is constructed on the basis of a complex theoretical and practical exploration of archival material and the original writings of the Argentine avant-garde theorist Oscar Masotta who devoted significant work questioning the societal and artistic context of the Happening in the 1960s, as a marginal counterpoint to the avant-garde developments that deviated from the cultural norms of Western civilization. Garcia's work represents a complex intertextual network of historical, literary, and philosophical data that encompasses the sensory aspect of the viewer's perception, creating a coherent film unit in which the author uses the mechanisms of narration to create a conceptual artwork. The main goal of this research is to provide a theoretical basis for analysis through narratology, editing as a conceptual tool, and final reading according to semiotics, in order to interpret artistic language as a possible domain for absorbing the experiences of art in extension.

Robert Simms, Anticipation and Anachrony in Statius’ ‘Thebaid’, Bloomsbury Academic, London 2020, 208 pp.; ISBN 978-1-3500-8257-1

Robert Simms, Anticipation and Anachrony in Statius’ ‘Thebaid’, Bloomsbury Academic, London 2020, 208 pp.; ISBN 978-1-3500-8257-1

Author(s): Bartosz Kołoczek / Language(s): English / Issue: 27/2020

BOOK REVIEW - PAUL B. ARMSTRONG, STORIES AND THE BRAIN: THE NEUROSCIENCE OF NARRATIVE, BALTIMORE, JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2020, 259 P.

BOOK REVIEW - PAUL B. ARMSTRONG, STORIES AND THE BRAIN: THE NEUROSCIENCE OF NARRATIVE, BALTIMORE, JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2020, 259 P.

Author(s): Ada Beleuţă / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2021

The position that Paul B. Armstrong’s Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative finds within the fields of poststructuralist and postcognitive narratology is particularly interesting. While it makes considerable contributions to the collective efforts of establishing an interdisciplinary dialogue between cognitive sciences and the humanities, it does – at the same time, engage in an emphatic critique of similarly oriented theories of narrative. Even though he acknowledges the general shift from a computational model of the mind to “the 4e (embodied, enactive, embedded, and extended) view of cognition” (15), he denounces their lack of synchronization with recent neuroscientific findings on language, cognition, emotion, or narrative comprehension. To him, it appears that, “in their zeal to reject a Cartesian splitting of mind and body” (5), narratologists tend to overlook brain-based research in order to draw instead on psychological or philosophical perspectives.

Sensory Storytelling, a Current Tool of Communication in Advertising

Sensory Storytelling, a Current Tool of Communication in Advertising

Author(s): Daniela Cătău-Vereș / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

Keywords: sensory storytelling; advertising; narrative text; communication; narratology;

Through the concept of sensory storytelling, we enter a field of communication still insufficiently explored, but which allows us to find out how advertising discourse is organized and works in a way as close as possible to reality, even if the mechanisms that compose it are not always understood by consumer, but are well directed by those behind the scenes of advertising. The analytical categories of the advertising narrative text, partially addressed in studies of general narratology and advertising semiotics, confirm the importance of narration in advertising communication and the deepening of the process of storytelling for the senses so that the message is persuasive.

The Clash of Narratives: Armenian and Turkish Narratives on the Events of 1915

The Clash of Narratives: Armenian and Turkish Narratives on the Events of 1915

Author(s): Mustafa Tayfun ÜSTÜN / Language(s): English / Issue: 31/2022

Keywords: Resettlement of Armenians; Aesthetic Theory; Narrative Analysis; Diaspora; Social Constructivism; Popular Culture; International Politics;

This paper focuses on narratives about the resettlement of Armenians in 1915. It seeks to understand how a variety of Armenian and Turkish political actors shape international politics by re-narrating the events and pursue to reconstruct the reality in a way that favours their interests. In contrast to previous works highlighting historical and legal perspectives, this paper does not aim to prove or disprove their allegations if the resettlement of Armenians was genocide or not. Rather, I propose to contribute to the literature on aesthetic sources of International Relations by analysing two movies; namely, “The Promise” and “The Ottoman Lieutenant“ to identify how the process of reconstruction and representation have been maintained by Armenian and Turkish political actors. Later on, the power and influences of narratives will be discussed in the nexus of the international relations and diaspora politics.

Characters and Space in the novel “Twilight of the Eastern Gods” by Ismail Kadare

Characters and Space in the novel “Twilight of the Eastern Gods” by Ismail Kadare

Author(s): Veron Dobroshi / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: Albanian; characters; novel; space; description; Romanian;

Space and description are important elements in, the literary work, which are closely related to the literary characters and their actions within the events. In the novel "Twilight of the eastern Gods" by Ismail Kadare, several interesting points of space and description are encountered. Many characters appear in this novel, which are also real names because they are directly related to the personal experience of the author and a period of his life. The study will highlight the characteristics of these characters and their relationship with the narrator of this novel and their function within the narrative. The characters are located within a space, therefore they are closely connected because it is the space where they act. The spaces in this novel are both external and internal. The study also includes another dimension, that of the translation of Kadare's work in Romania, as well as the cultural-literary ties between Albania and Romania.