Narrative theory (Languages And Linguistics)

Nezanesljivi pripovedovalec v sodobnem slovenskem romanu

by Aljoša Harlamov

Nezanesljivi pripovedovalec je rezultat kompleksnih procesov, ki se odvijajo v dejanju literarne komunikacije med... more Nezanesljivi pripovedovalec je rezultat kompleksnih procesov, ki se odvijajo v dejanju literarne komunikacije med avtorjem in njegovim kontekstom, literarnim delom, njegovim kontekstom in njegovim implicitnim avtorjem v pomenu dela kot celote ter bralcem in njegovim kontekstom. Določiti je mogoče tri tipe nezanesljivega pripovedovalca: nezanesljivi presojevalec, nezanesljivi razlagalec in nezanesljivi poročevalec. Vsakega od njih pa je mogoče umestiti v sodobni slovenski roman: nezanesljivega presojevalca v Hočevarjevo trilogijo Porkasvet, Za znoret in Rožencvet, nezanesljivega razlagalca v Sosičev roman Balerina, Balerina in nezanesljivega poročevalca v Möderndorferjev Opoldne nekega dne.

Ključne besede: sodobni slovenski roman, pripovedovalec, nezanesljivi pripovedovalec, implicitni avtor, Zoran Hočevar, Marko Sosič, Vinko Möderndorfer

Story, Play, and Steam: Thermoludic Narratology in Video Game Studies

by Jameson Hogan

For completion of the MA in Literature and Rhetoric/Composition.

This project examined the often competing perspectives of ludology and narratology in the field of video game studies,... more This project examined the often competing perspectives of ludology and narratology in the field of video game studies, and attempts to incorporate both into a model of game narrative engagement based on the laws of thermodynamics. Further, this project sought to demonstrate that the same model can be used to examine the study of traditional literary texts.

The Assassin's Creed video game series served as the video game text under examination, and the novel House of Leaves as the literary.

David Herman: Basic Elements of Narrative

by Baptiste Campion

Campion B. (2008), Recension de David Herman: Basic Elements of Narrative. Recherches en communication, 29.

“The De-Composition of Writing in A Passage to India.” Journal of Modern Literature. 29:3 (2006): 1-18.

by tony jackson

“‘Graphism’ and Storytime in Memento.” Mosaic 40:3 (2007): 51-66.

by tony jackson

An Imagined Drama of Competitive Opposition in Carter's Scrivo in Vento, with Notes on Narrative, Symmetry, Quantitative Flux and Heraclitus

by Joshua B. Mailman

Music Analysis, v.28, ii-ii (2009)

Carter's music poses struggles of opposition, for instance in timbre (Double Concerto), space (String Quartet No. 3)... more Carter's music poses struggles of opposition, for instance in timbre (Double Concerto), space (String Quartet No. 3) or pulse (String Quartet No. 5). His preference for the all-interval tetrachords, 4–Z15 [0, 1, 4, 6] and 4–Z29 [0, 1, 3, 7], is also well known. From these facets of Carter's music, I develop a narrative interpretation of his Petrarch sonnet–inspired solo flute piece, Scrivo in Vento (1991). Specifically, I forge narrative pathways by imagining the two tetrachords as active agents opposed in competition. Previous Scrivo analyses (Capuzzo 2002; Childs 2006) stress continuity by revealing Q-transforms and common-note voice leading between the tetrachords. While acknowledging such features, my analysis emphasises oppositional struggle by tracing the tetrachords as separate entities which cooperate and conflict as they manoeuvre to outdo each other.

The analysis advances three theses: (1) it guides listening to and reading Scrivo in a way which resonates with Carter's concern for the aesthetics of oppositional struggle, his choice of a sonnet as inspiration and his affinity for all-interval tetrachords; (2) it shows that music-analytical detail can be organised into dramatic narratives by (a) projecting dramatic roles onto categories asserted by a formal theory and (b) treating the formal theory's relations metaphorically as actions performed by each role as the musical work unfolds; and (3) it shows how detailed pc-set analysis can support a Heraclitean view of music: a flux of opposing forces seeking and resisting unity.

Sektion 2.2. Identity, Authenticity, Locality, Urbanity and Speech Community: A New Sociolinguistic Perspective| Identität, Authentizität, Lokale-Und Städtische …

by meryem sen

"The Seductions of the Garden: The Genesis of Hermeneutics as Critique"

by Bernard M. Levinson

On Interpretation: Studies in Culture, Law, and the Sacred = Graven Images 5 (2002): 95-99. Reprinted and updated in:
Bernard M. Levinson, "The Right Chorale": Studies in Biblical Law and Interpretation (FAT 54: Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008), 40-47;
paper edition: Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2011.

“The Seductions of the Garden and the Genesis of Hermeneutics as Critique” explores the relation between narrative and... more “The Seductions of the Garden and the Genesis of Hermeneutics as Critique” explores the relation between narrative and law in the Bible. Recent years have seen renewed interest in the story of the “fall” narrative in Genesis 2–3, with two volumes published just in the last years. However, my own interest in the story was first awakened through John Milton, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and the fascinating Russian Jewish philosopher, Lev Shestov, who was influenced by both Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, and who deployed the narrative of the fall for his powerful, if eccentric, critique of the western philosophical tradition.7 For these thinkers, the narrative is not an account of the loss of grace. Rather, it represents a symbolic structure of experience, a moment that is enduringly present and that is repeated both within the lives of individuals and from generation to generation. Their readings draw powerful connections between the Bible and the tradition of western literature and thought. For Hegel, “Der Sündenfall ist daher der ewige Mythos des Menschen, wodurch er eben Mensch wird”; it represents “der ewige Geschichte des Geistes.” From this perspective, the fall is not a moment in past time but in literary history and the imagination, essential to human self-reflection.

Keywords:
Genesis 2-3; Eve; Bonhoeffer; Kant; O felix culpa; the fall story; literary hermeneutics; narrative hermeneutics; narrative theory; fall upwards; serpent; philosophical hermeneutics; literary approaches to Bible;Garden of Eden; Milton; relation between narrative and law; law and narrative; der Sündenfall; fall of man; die Paradieserzählung; Kenneth Burke; on the first three chapters of Genesis; "free to stand"; Deut 30:19; Dtn 30:19; Gn 2-3; Deut 5:3; Dtn 5,3; covenant of life; eternal life; mise en abyme; Adam.