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Narrativity, Coherence and Literariness
A Theoretical Approach with Analyses of Laclos, Kafka and Toussaint
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Eva Sabine Wagner
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English
Published/Copyright:
2020
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The search for the defining qualities of narrative has produced an expansive range of definitions which, largely unconnected with each other, obscure the notion of “narrativity” rather than clarifying it.
The first part of this study remedies this shortcoming by developing a graded macro model of narrativity which serves three aims. Firstly, it provides a structured overview of the field of narrative elements and processes. Secondly, it facilitates the classification of narratological approaches by locating them on different stages of narrativity. Finally, it focuses attention on narrative dynamics as interpretative processes by which readers seek to produce narrative coherence.
The second part of this study identifies three different narrative dynamics which characterise Laclos’s "Dangerous Connections," Kafka’s "Castle" and Toussaint’s novels. Wagner bases her analyses of these dynamics not only on the texts themselves but also on the ways in which literary scholars imbue the texts with narrative coherence.
This book provides a long overdue systematisation of the jumbled field of theories of narrativity and opens new perspectives on the difficult relationship between narrative theory and interpretation.
The first part of this study remedies this shortcoming by developing a graded macro model of narrativity which serves three aims. Firstly, it provides a structured overview of the field of narrative elements and processes. Secondly, it facilitates the classification of narratological approaches by locating them on different stages of narrativity. Finally, it focuses attention on narrative dynamics as interpretative processes by which readers seek to produce narrative coherence.
The second part of this study identifies three different narrative dynamics which characterise Laclos’s "Dangerous Connections," Kafka’s "Castle" and Toussaint’s novels. Wagner bases her analyses of these dynamics not only on the texts themselves but also on the ways in which literary scholars imbue the texts with narrative coherence.
This book provides a long overdue systematisation of the jumbled field of theories of narrativity and opens new perspectives on the difficult relationship between narrative theory and interpretation.
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Eva Sabine Wagner, Universität Osnabrück, Germany.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations
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Introduction: Coming to Terms with Complexity
1 - Part A: Theory of Narrativity
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1 Preliminary Epistemic Considerations: Narrativity and Narratology Between Order and Chaos
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2 Problems of Defining Narrativity: Research Review and Systematisation
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3 Narrativity and Coherence: Towards an Analysis of Literary Narrative Dynamics
236 - Part B: Narrative Dynamics
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4 “Narrative Projection”: Choderlos de Laclos’s Les Liaisons dangereuses
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5 “Narrative Withdrawal”: Kafka’s Schloss
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6 “Narrative resistance”: Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s novels
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Concluding remarks: Elements of a ‘Rhizomatic’ Realignment of ‘Narrativity’ and Narratology
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Works Cited
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Table of Figures
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Index
635
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eBook published on:
June 8, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9783110673180
Hardcover published on:
May 18, 2020
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110664362
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Front matter:
11
Main content:
638
Illustrations:
23
Audience(s) for this book
Literary scholars, narratologists
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