Unnatural Narratology, Impersonal Voices, Real Authors, and Non-Communicative Narration

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. I. Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives
5. What Is Unnatural Narrative Theory? 23
6. The Diachronic Development of Unnaturalness: A New View on Genre 41
7. II. Unnatural Narrators and Minds
8. Unnatural Narratology, Impersonal Voices, Real Authors, and Non-Communicative Narration 71
9. “In flaming flames”: Crises of Experientiality in Non-Fictional Narratives 89
10. Toward a Hybrid Approach to the Unnatural: ‘Reading for the Consciousness’ and the Psychodynamics of Experientiality in Caryl Churchill’s Heart’s Desire 104
11. III. Unnatural Time and Causality
12. Narrative Causality Denaturalized 127
13. Hollywood Goes Computer Game: Narrative Remediation in the Time-Loop Quests Groundhog Day and 12:01 145
14. Backmasked Messages: On the Fabula Construction in Episodically Reversed Narratives 162
15. IV. Unnatural Worlds and Events
16. Unnatural Narrative and Metalepsis: Grant Morrison’s Animal Man 189
17. Unnatural Worlds and Unnatural Narration in Comics?. A Critical Examination 210
18. Natural or Unnatural?. Linguistic Deep Level Structures in AbE: A Case Study of New South Wales Aboriginal English 246
19. Bio Notes 269