Nabokov’s “Ultima Thule”: An Exercise in Generative Narratology

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Table of Contents XIII
4. Contexts
5. “Contextualized Poetics” and Contextualized Rhetoric: Consolidation or Subversion? 3
6. Rethinking the Unreliable Narrator: Is the Demarcation Heterodiegetic/ Homodiegetic Necessary? 25
7. Autofiction and Authorial Unreliable Narration 47
8. Beyond Unreliability: Resisting Naturalization of Normative Horizons 61
9. Nabokov’s “Ultima Thule”: An Exercise in Generative Narratology 77
10. Emerging Narrative Situations: A Definition of We-Narratives Proper 101
11. Critical Ethical Narratology as an Emerging Vector of Narrative Theory and Autobiographical End-of-Life Stories 127
12. The Fictionalization of History in Metahistoriographic Fiction after the Constructivist Challenge 153
13. Towards a Crossing of the Divide between Fiction and Non-Fiction in European Television Series and Movies: The Examples of the Italian Romanzo Criminale and the Danish Klovn 171
14. Unnatural Narrative Theory: A Paradoxical Paradigm 193
15. Causal Expectation 207
16. Eventfulness and Repetitiveness: Two Aesthetics of Storytelling 229
17. The Garden of Forking Paths: Virtualities and Challenges for Contemporary Narratology 247
18. The Representation of Character Interiority in Film: Cinematic Versions of Psychonarration, Free Indirect Discourse and Direct Thought 265
19. Intermedial Transposition: From Verbal Story to Music. Narrative in Musical Works Based on Romeo and Juliet 285
20. How to Measure Narrativity? Notes on Some Problems with Comparing Degrees of Narrativity Across Different Media 315
21. From Structural Narratology to Enunciative Pragmatics: Greek Poetic Forms between Mythical Narrative and Ritual Act 335
22. Comparison of Chinese-Western Narrative Poetics: State of the Art 361
23. Openings
24. What is Your Narrative? Lessons from the Narrative Turn 383
25. How Many ‘Turns’ Does it Take to Change a Discipline? Narratology and the Interdisciplinary Rhetoric of the Narrative Turn 405
26. The Promise of an Embodied Narratology: Integrating Cognition, Representation and Interpretation 435
27. Beyond Fictional Worlds: Narrative and Spatial Cognition 461
28. Is There a Future for Neuro-Narratology? Thoughts on the Meeting of Cognitive Narratology and Neuroaesthetics 479
29. In Search of Coherence: Tacit Negotiations between the Paradigmatic and the Syntagmatic in Narratology and Narrativity 497
30. Complexity: A Paradigm for Narrative? 533
31. The Story behind any Story: Evolution, Historicity and Narrative Mapping 567
32. The Future of Narratology’s Past: A Contribution to Metanarratology 593
33. Notes on Contributors 609
34. Index 615