The 3rd ENN Conference

Emerging Vectors of Narratology:

1oward Consolldauon or ulverslcauon?
Paris, March 29 and 30, 2013


Contents

Welcome from the conference organizers 2
Practical information 4
The European Narratology Network (ENN) 7
Emerging Vectors of Narratology: Toward Consolidation or
Diversification?
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Key 10
Conference Program 11

Registration and reception Thursday, March 28 12

Plenary sessions and parallel sessions Friday, March 29 12

Plenary sessions and parallel sessions Saturday, March 30 20
Abstracts 27

Keynote speakers 28

Workshops 34

Panels 43

Pre-conference doctoral seminar 61

Regular session speakers 73


2 welcome
Welcome to the 3
rd
Conference of the European Narratology
Network

We wish to welcome you to this years conference of the ENN in Paris.
Entitled Emerging Vectors of Narratology: Toward Consolidation or
Diversification?, the conference has drawn nearly 140 lecturers from
some 35 countries, exceeding the European borders by far and bring-
ing together narratologists not only from many corners of Europe, but
also from the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. With this has come
an impressive variety of papers whose scope and originality promise to
explore nearly every aspect of the conferences theme.

This years ENN conference is organized under the auspices of the
Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage (CRAL), a joint research
center of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and
the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). For narratol-
ogists, this is no negligible detail, for among the founders of the CRAL,
thirty years ago following the death of Roland Barthes, are some of the
most illustrious representatives of the discipline: Claude Bremond,
Grard Genette, Louis Marin, Christian Metz and Tzvetan Todorov. The
CRAL, now celebrating its thirtieth anniversary, has placed particular
significance on this years conference of the ENN by making it the
principal scientific event of the year.

The conference has been made possible by backing from the CRAL, the
EHESS, the Institut Universitaire de France, the University of Stras-
bourg, the Department of Literatures and Languages of the University
of Tours, the Maison Franaise dOxford, the Maison Suger and the
City of Paris. We wish to thank these institutions for their support and
also Audrey Lasserre for her expertise in laying out the conference
booklet.

We hope that the conference will be a rewarding and stimulating expe-
rience for all.

John Pier
University of Tours / CRAL
Philippe Roussin
CNRS / Maison Franaise dOxford / CRAL

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Bienvenue au 3
e
Congrs du Rseau Europen de Narratologie
(REN)

Nous sommes heureux de vous accueillir Paris et de vous souhaiter
la bienvenue au 3
e
Congrs du Rseau Europen de Narratologie.

Intitul Vecteurs mergents de la narratologie : vers la consolidation ou
la diversification ?, le Congrs regroupe prs de 140 confrencier(e)s,
venu(e)s de quelques 35 pays dEurope, mais aussi du Moyen Orient,
de lAsie et de lAmrique Latine. Do une impressionnante varit de
communications dont le champ et loriginalit doivent permettre lex-
ploration des diffrentes thmatiques du Congrs.

Cette anne, le Congrs du Rseau Europen de Narratologie (REN) est
organis sous les auspices du Centre de recherches sur les arts et le
langage (CRAL), une unit mixte de recherche au Centre national de la
recherche scientifique (CNRS) et lcole des Hautes tudes en Scien-
ces Sociales (EHESS). Pour les narratologues, cette information est loin
dtre dnue de signification. Au nombre des chercheurs qui furent,
en 1983, lorigine de la fondation du CRAL, aprs la disparition de
Roland Barthes, figurent, en effet, quelques-uns des noms les plus
prestigieux de la discipline : Claude Bremond, Grard Genette, Louis
Marin, Christian Metz et Tzvetan Todorov. Le CRAL, qui clbre en
2013 le trentime anniversaire de sa cration, a dcid de faire du
Congrs de lENN la principale manifestation scientifique de cette an-
ne.

Le Congrs a reu le soutien du CRAL, de lEHESS, de lInstitut Univer-
sitaire de France, de lUniversit de Strasbourg, de lUFR Lettres et
Langues de lUniversit de Tours, de la Maison Franaise dOxford, de
la Maison Suger et de la Ville de Paris, que nous sommes heureux de
remercier ici. Nous remercions galement Audrey Lasserre pour la
mise en page du livret du Congrs.

Nous esprons que le Congrs constituera une exprience en-
richissante et stimulante pour tous les participant(e)s.

John Pier
Universit de Tours / CRAL
Philippe Roussin
CNRS / Maison Franaise dOxford / CRAL
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Practical Information

The conference will take place at:

Cit internationale universitaire de Paris
17, boulevard Jourdan
75014 Paris

Access by public transport:

Line B of the RER (suburban express railway)
Direction: Robinson OR Saint-Rmy ls-Chevreuse
Station: Cit Universitaire (four stops from the RER station St Michel in the
center of Paris about twenty minutes)

The lectures will be held at the following locations, all within a very short walk-
ing distance from one another:

Fondation des tats-Unis
15, boulevard Jourdan
75014 Paris
It is here that the reception and registration will take place on Thursday, March
28 from 6 to 8 p.m., where registration will begin at 8 a.m. on Friday March 29,
and where all plenary sessions and the ENN business meeting will be held.

Maison du Mexique
9C, boulevard Jourdan
75014 Paris

Fondation Biermans-Laptre
9A, boulard Jourdan
75014 Paris

The banquet will take place on Saturday, March 30 from 8 to 12 p.m. at:

La Coupole
Salon privatif Le Dancing
102, boulevard du Montparnasse
75014 Paris

To go to La Coupole from the Cit internationale universitaire de Paris, take line
B of the RER (direction Charles de Gaulle) from station Cit Universitaire to
station Port Royal (2 stops). When leaving the RER station, turn right; the walk
is less than ten minutes.

Tourist information (in French and in English):
Office du Tourisme de Paris: http://www.parisinfo.com/
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Emerging Vectors of Narratology: Toward Consolidation or
Diversification?

The 3
rd
Conference of the European Narratology Network

Sponsored by:
CRAL (CNRS-EHESS)
96, boulevard Raspail
75006 Paris

Organized by:
John PIER, University of Tours / CRAL
Philippe ROUSSIN, CNRS / Maison Franaise dOxford / CRAL

ENN conference committee:
Per Krogh HANSEN, University of Southern Denmark
Wolf SCHMID, Hamburg University

International scientific committee:
Jean-Michel ADAM, Universit de Lausanne
David HERMAN, Ohio State University
Ansgar NNNING, Justus-Liebig-Universitt Gieen
Alain RABATEL, Universit de Lyon 1
Michael TOOLAN, University of Birmingham

Contact:
John PIER [email protected]
Philippe ROUSSIN [email protected]

Backing for the conference is provided by the CRAL, the EHESS, the
Institut Universitaire de France, the University of Strasbourg, the De-
partment of Literatures and Languages of the University of Tours, the
Maison Franaise dOxford, the Maison Suger and the City of Paris.
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The European Narratology Network (ENN)

The European Narratology Network (ENN) is an association of individ-
ual narratologists and narratological institutions. Our focus is predom-
inantly, but not exclusively, European as regards:

our object domain, which spans narrative representation in
literature, film, digital media, etc. across all European lan-
guages and cultures;
our institutional affiliations: universities, research institutions
and interest groups based in one of the European countries.

The ENN Steering Committee:
Per Krogh HANSEN (University of Southern Denmark), Chairman
John PIER (University of Tours and CRAL-CNRS Paris)
Wolf SCHMID (Hamburg University)

The Steering Committee has co-opted three ENN members:
Gunther MARTENS, Ghent University
Greta OLSEN, Justus-Liebig-Universitt Gieen
Philippe ROUSSIN, CNRS / Maison Franaise dOxford / CRAL

Please visit www.narratology.net for further information.

The ENN is also present on Facebook.


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Emerging Vectors of Narratology: Toward Consolidation or
Diversification?

It can be observed that postclassical narratology, in its initial phase,
expanded the scope of inquiry of its predecessor to become multiple,
interdisciplinary, transgeneric, transmedial. More recently, it appears
that narratology has entered a phase of consolidation, but with a con-
tinued trend toward diversification.

What does this consolidation consist of, and in what ways can narra-
tology be said to diversify? Are narratologies, in the plural, evolving
toward narratology, in the singular possibly to become a discipline in
the full sense of the term? Does diversification imply more double-
entry narratologies, or does it, perhaps simultaneously, involve a look
at the various scientific cultures underlying research programs in nar-
rative theory, past and present, but also non-Western? As theoreticians
address issues of cognition and context in narrative, in what ways
should the role of poetics in narratology be rethought?

Ubiquitous, stories have encouraged narratologists to expand their
purview beyond the literary corpus and take the narrative turn, em-
bracing fields as diverse as psychology, sociology, history, the law,
corporate management, digital technology, and more. But whatever the
universals common to all narratives, literary scholars, psychothera-
pists, sociologists, historians, jurists, advertising executives and AI
experts view narrative in significantly different ways and as serving
purposes that may be wholly at odds from one field to another. What,
then, is the influence on narrative of genre not necessarily in the
sense of traditional literary scholarship, but possibly in that of speech
genres (Bakhtine), those relatively fixed forms that bridge the gap
between units of language or other signifying systems and discourse
in its prolific manifestations? Then, too, is the matter of narrative in
non-verbal forms the plastic arts and music but also narrative in its
pluri-medial forms.

Yet other questions arise. If, as Barthes stressed nearly half a century
ago, narrative is a universal anthropological phenomenon, to what
extent is it constitutive of culture? Can similar lines of inquiry be pur-
sued with regard to homo narrans, the storytelling animal?


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Vecteurs mergents de la narratologie : vers la consolidation
ou la diversification ?

ses dbuts, la narratologie post-classique a permis dtendre le
champ denqute de la narratologie classique en se faisant multiple,
interdisciplinaire, transgnrique et transmdiale. Plus rcemment, il
semble que la narratologie est entre dans une phase de consolidation,
mais avec une tendance continue la diversification.

En quoi consiste cette consolidation et de quelle manire la narratolo-
gie se diversifie-t-elle ? Les narratologies au pluriel voluent-elles
vers une narratologie au singulier en passe de devenir une disci-
pline au plein sens du terme ? La diversification implique-t-elle plus
de narratologies double entre, ou demande-t-elle, et peut-tre simul-
tanment, un regard tourn vers les diverses cultures scientifiques qui
sous-tendent les programmes de recherche dans le domaine de la
thorie narrative, pass et prsent, mais aussi non occidental ? Dans
la mesure o les thoriciens sintressent aux questions de la cogni-
tion et du contexte dans les rcits, de quelle manire le rle de la po-
tique narratologique peut-il repens ?

Partout prsents, les rcits ont encourag les narratologues tendre
leur objet au-del des seuls corpus littraires et emprunter le
tournant narratif , qui concerne des champs aussi divers que la
psychologie, la sociologie, lethnologie, lhistoire, le droit, le manage-
ment, les technologies digitales, etc. Mais, quels que soient les univer-
saux communs lensemble des rcits, les spcialistes de littrature,
les psychothrapeutes, les sociologues, les ethnologues, les historiens,
les juristes, les publicistes et les spcialistes de lintelligence artifi-
cielle envisagent les rcits depuis des points de vue diffrents qui
peuvent tre en dsaccord les uns avec les autres. Quelle peut tre,
dans ces conditions, linfluence sur le rcit du concept de genre, non
pas au sens littraire traditionnel du terme, mais au sens des genres
de discours (Bakhtine), ces formes relativement fixes qui passent
les ponts entre les units de langage ou les systmes signifiants et le
discours dans ses manifestations les plus profuses ? Se pose gale-
ment la question du rcit dans ses formes non-verbales les arts plas-
tiques et la musique ainsi que dans ses formes pluri-mdiales.

Dautres questions surgissent encore. Si comme Barthes lavait souli-
gn il y a prs dun demi-sicle, le rcit est un phnomne anthropolo-
gique universel, dans quelle mesure est-il constitutif de la culture ?
Peut-on poursuivre une enqute du mme ordre propos de lhomo
narrans, lanimal conteur dhistoires ?
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Key




A Grand Salon Fondation des tats-Unis
(15, boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris nr. 14 on the map)
B Conference Room Maison du Mexique
(9C, boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris nr. 28 on the map)
C Music Room Maison du Mexique
(9C, boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris)
D Ballroom I Fondation Biermans-Laptre
(9A, boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris nr. 7 on the map)
E Ballroom II Fondation Biermans-Laptre
(9A, boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris)
F Library Fondation Biermans-Laptre
(9A, boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris)
G Reading Room Fondation Biermans-Laptre
(9A, boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris)
H Cinema Room Fondation Biermans-Laptre
(9A, boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris)


Restaurant Cit universitaire internationale de Paris
Maison internationale
23, boulevard Jourdan
75014 Paris
Nr. 39 on the map


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Conference Program

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Thursday, March 28 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Registration and reception

Fondation des tats-Unis
Grand Salon
15, boulevard Jourdan
75014 Paris

Friday, March 29

8.00-9.00

9.00-9.15


Room A
Registration

Conference opening
Pierre-Cyrille HAUTCUR, Prsident de lcole des Hautes
tudes en Sciences Sociales
Per Krogh HANSEN, Chairman of the ENN, University of
Southern Denmark
John PIER, Conference Organizer, University of Tours / CRAL
(CNRS)

9.15-10.45

Room A

PLENARY SESSION I
Jean-Marie SCHAEFFER, EHESS / CNRS
From Narrativity to Narrative Art
Brian RICHARDSON, University of Maryland
The Boundaries of Narrative and the Limits of Narratology

10.45-11.00 Pause
11.00-12.30

Room D
PARALLEL SESSIONS I

Panel 1: Visualizing Narrative Times
Convened by Ellen MCCALLUM, Michigan State University
Michelle A. MASS, Louisiana State University
Learning to Tell Time: Constructing Life Stages through
Psychoanalytic and Literary Narration
James V. CATANO, Louisiana State University
Narrative Voice/over in the Film Essay
Ellen MCCALLUM, Michigan State University
Still Narrative: The Diversification of Narrative through the
Time Image
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Room E Panel 2: Notes Towards an Embodied Narratology
Convened by Karin KUKKONEN, Oxford, and Marco CARACCIOLO,
University of Groningen
Marco CARACCIOLO, University of Groningen, and Ccile
GUDON, University of Groningen
Disrupting Gestures: Modernist Fiction and Kinesthetic Em-
pathy in Rilke, Tozzi, and Woolf
Sabine MLLER, Saint Johns College, Oxford
Body and Language in the Writings of Herta Mller
Karin KUKKONEN, Saint Johns College, Oxford
Bodies, Memory Space and Situated Conceptualisation in
Hilary Mantels Historical Fiction
Room A Group 1: Narrativity and Visual Media
Chair: Jana GAVRILIU, University of Bucharest
Michael RANTA, Lund University
Tellability in Pictorial Storytelling
Matthias BRTSCH, University of Zurich
How to Measure Narrativity? Notes on Some Problems with
Comparing Degrees of Narrativity Within and Across Media
Adriana BONTEA, Pembroke College, Oxford / CNRS-EHESS
Narratives as Figures of Thought
Room B Group 2: Narrative and Psychology
Chair: John JACOBS, Southern Connecticut University
Brian SCHIFF, The American University of Paris
Psychologys Narrative
Ralf SCHNEIDER, Bielefeld University
Cognitive Narratology Meets Neuroaesthetics: Is there a Fu-
ture for Neuro-Narratology?
Luisa SALMASO, Ca Foscari University of Venice
Executive Functions and Paths of Learning through Multi-
linear Narrative Tools
Room C Group 3: Locutionary Agency, Apprehending, Dreaming in
Narrative
Chair: Joshua PARKER, University of Salzburg
Eric RUNDQUIST, The University of Nottingham
How is Mrs Ramsay thinking? Non-verbal thought and
locutionary agency in the representation of consciousness
Oleg SOBCHUK, University of Tartu
The Passivity of the Reader: The Role of Accentuation in the
Process of Apprehending Narrative
Pascal LEFVRE, LUCA (Campus Sint-Lukas) / KU Leuven
The Narratological Paradoxes of Dreaming
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Room F Group 4: Narrative Borders
Chair: Stefan IVERSEN, Aarhus University
Erika FLP, New College, Oxford
The Space and Place of Narratology: Between Geometry and
Geography
Sneana MILOSAVLJEVI MILI, University of Ni
Border(less) Narrative Liminal Space of Narratology
Jelena V. JOVANOVI, University of Ni
Paratext The Meeting Place of the Story and its Interpretation
Room G Group 5: Fact and Fiction
Chair: Sebastian DOMSCH, University of Greifswald
Silke LAHN, Hamburg University, and Stephanie NEU,
Mannheim University
Some Facts about Fiction: Towards a Narratological Crossing
of the factuality-fictionality divide
Gunter Karl PRESSLER, Universidade Federal do Par, Belm,
Brazil
Facts and Fiction. Events and stories in relation to texts and
the world
Lukas HOFFMANN, University of Tbingen
Fictionalized Fact and Factualized Fiction
Room H Group 6: Cinema I
Chair: Ursula-Helen KASSAVETI, National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens
Inna Drach, Russian State University for the Humanities,
Moscow
The Nature of Literary Montage and the Difference between
Cinematic and Montage Novels
Carla CARIBONI KILLANDER, Lund University, and Liviu LUTAS,
Lund University
Cinematic Ekphrasis and its Narrative Implications
Corinne BENAND-LEGRAND, CRAL / EHESS
A la rencontre de lle au cinma Dialogue entre la
narratologie et le 7
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art

12.30-13.45
Lunch: Restaurant universitaire Maison internationale
23, boulevard Jourdan


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14.00-14.45

Room A
PLENARY SESSION II:

Jan Christoph MEISTER, Hamburg University
Towards a Computational Narratology

14.45-15.00 Pause
15.00-17.00

Room A
PARALLEL SESSIONS II

Workshop : What Kind of Narrative Theory for Musical Narra-
tology? (I)
Convened by Mrta GRABCZ, University of Strasbourg / IUF,
Paris
Mrta GRABCZ, University of Strasbourg / IUF, Paris
Image de la narratologie musicale dans les ouvrages de
narratologie gnrale
Vera MICZNIK, The University of British Columbia
A Possible Musical-Narrative Theory
Christian HAUER, Universit Lille 3
Lapport de la narratologie musicale la narratologie
contemporaine
Magorzata PAWOWSKA, Academy of Music, Cracow
Narrative in Musical Works Based on the Story of Romeo and
Juliet
Room D Panel 3: When myths become reality: At the crossroads of
organizational culture, stories, mind
Convened by Kay MHLMANN, Danube University, Krems, Austria
Kay MHLMANN, Danube University
Why organizations mind about stories
Manuel NAGL, Danube University
When stories meet schemas meet culture
Gnther SCHREDER, Danube University
Only narrative news is good news?
Yan Bello MNDEZ, Management Consulting and Research,
SpaceMinds. Spain
Appreciative Storytelling: Using narratives, stories and
appreciative inquiry in organizational change programs to
transform culture

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Room E Panel 4: Digital Flnerie and the Mapping of American Narra-
tives of Paris
Convened by Ellen MCCALLUM, Michigan State University
Sarah PANUSKA, Michigan State University
Narrative Spatiality and Emerging Forms of Interactivity
Laura MCGRATH, Michigan State University
Unplottable Plots and Narratives of Movement In/Through
Hemingways Paris
Steven AMBROSE, Michigan State University
Queer Paris and the Narrative of Identity in James Baldwins
Giovannis Room
Anna GREEN, Michigan State University
Sedentary City
Room F Pre-conference seminar lectures I
Chair: David STROMBERG, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jan HORSTMANN, Hamburg University
Theatre Narratology
Manja KRSCHNER, Kiel University
The Fictionalization of History and Unreliable Narration in
Contemporary Historiographic Metafiction
Adam LIVELY, University of London
Narrative Symbolization: From Situated to Embedded Narrative
Sara PARDON, Ghent University
Narration and Experience in Historical Representations
David STROMBERG, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Artistic Gesture: In Search of the Muteness of Painting
in Literature

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Room G Pre-conference seminar lectures II
Chair: Eva Sabine WAGNER, University of Osnabrck
Natalya BEKHTA, University of Gieen
Emerging Narrative Situations: Towards a Definition of a
We-narrative Proper
Ayman E. M. GEEDALLAH, Omar Almkhtar-Tobruk University, Libya
The Equilibrium between Author and Time with Special Reference to
Dickens Great Expectations
Jannike Hegdal NILSSEN, University of Oslo
Possible Qualities of an Unreliable Narrator in both First-
person and Third-person Narration
Virginia PIGNAGNOLI, Ca Foscari University of Venice
Interference around the Threshold: The Contemporary
Challenge to (Para)Textual Boundaries
Caroline PIRLET, University of Gieen
Many a Tell-Tale Heart: Revealing Emotions and the
Construction of Narrativity
Eva Sabine WAGNER, University of Osnabrck
Narrative Projection
Room B Group 7: Logical Dimensions of Narrative
Chair: Roy SOMMER, University of Wuppertal
Gran ROSSHOLM, Stockholm University
Causal Problems
Sebastian DOMSCH, University of Greifswald
Narrative and Probability
John PIER, University of Tours / CRAL (CNRS)
Complexity: A Paradigm for Narrative?
Ondej SLDEK, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
What is Narrative Explanation?
Room C Group 8: Narrative and History
Chair: Emily ANDERSON, Knox College, Illinois
Parastoo MOHEBBI, University of Tehran
A Reflection on History: The Place of Historiographical
Metafiction in Iranian New Drama
Mustafa Zeki IRAKLI, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey
Diverse Narrative Concomitants in Elif Shafaks Honour
Bohumil FOT, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
Literary Narratives as Constituents of Political Worlds: The Case of
Milan Kundera
Elizabeth KOVACH, University of Gieen
Post-9/11 Worlds: Oscillations between Possibility and
Actuality in Jonathan Franzens Freedom
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Room H Group 9: Design Pattern Event Plot
Chair: Jan Christoph MEISTER, Hamburg University
Per Krogh HANSEN, University of Southern Denmark
Narrative Design
Paul HAZEL, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Temporal Patterning in Narrative
Gian Piero ZARRI, Universit Paris-Sorbonne
A Formal Language for Representing and Managing Narra-
tives in a Computer
Olivier CARA, Institut Universitaire de Technologie (Evry) /
CRAL (CNRS)
One step backwards: Plot as a common ground between con-
templative and interactive fictions
17.00-17.15 Pause
17.15-18.15

Room A
PARALLEL SESSIONS III

Group 10: Narratology in China
Chair: Dan SHEN, Beijing University
Liya WANG, Beijing Normal University
Chinese Postclassical Narratologies: Towards Consolidation
or Diversification?
Huaiyu LUO, Macquarie University, Australia / Beijing Language and
Culture University
Comparison of Chinese-Western Narrative Poetics: State of the Field
Room B







Room C


Group 11: Bakhtinian Perspectives
Chair: Inna DRACH, Russian State University for the Humanities,
Moscow
Noelle HEWETSON, University College Dublin
The Threshold Chronotope as a Unifying Narrative Device in
David Mitchells Cloud Atlas
Ioanna BOURA, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
The Dialogic Perspective of Narratology
Group 12: Narrative and Theater
Chair: Philippe ROUSSIN, CNRS / Maison Franaise dOxford /
CRAL
Gunther MARTENS, Ghent University
Text Theatricality: An integrated approach through narratol-
ogy and performance studies
Benot HENNAUT, Universit Libre de Bruxelles / CRAL, EHESS
The Narrative Limits of a Specific Genre: The Theatre Direc-
tors Script
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Room D Group 13: Narratology: Method or Heuristics?
Chair: Paul DAWSON, University of New South Wales, Australia
Greger ANDERSSON, University of rebro
Narratology as Theory and as a Method of Text Analysis
Liesbeth KORTHALS ALTES, University of Groningen
Narratology as a (Meta-)Hermeneutic Heuristics: Ethos
attributions, generic and other framings in Michel
Houellebecqs La Carte et le territoire
Room E Group 14: Narratological Paradigms
Chair: Richard WALSH, University of York
Lars-ke SKALIN, University of rebro
Narratology Narratologies: Theoretical Monism or Pluralism?
Franco PASSALACQUA, University of Insubria
Two epistemic paradigms of narrative theory: constructivist
vs. mimetic
Room F Group 15: Life History Play-narration
Chair: Brian SCHIFF, The American University of Paris
John JACOBS, Southern Connecticut University
Discussions of Love in the Life History Narratives of
Adults at Fifty
Matti HYVRINEN, University of Tampere, and Elina Viljamaa,
University of Oulu
Every-day Unnatural Narration?
Room G Group 16: Narrative in Youth Care and Education
Chair: Ralf SCHNEIDER, Bielefeld University
Jef VAN DER AA, Tilburg University
Narratology and Youth Care
Geert VANDERMEERSCHE, Ghent University
A Pedagogical Narratology? Exploring the Narrative Turn in
Educational Studies and Philosophy
Room H Group 17: Narratology in the Middle Ages and in Folklore
Chair: Veronika ZUSEVA-ZKAN, Russian State University for the
Humanities, Moscow
Eva VON CONTZEN, Ruhr University Bochum
New Light on Dark Ages: Narratology and the Middle Ages
A Reappraisal
Ulf PALMENFELT, Gotland University
Folkloristic Narrative Analysis
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Saturday, March 30

9.00-10.30

Room A
PLENARY SESSION III

Dan SHEN, Peking University
Contextualized Poetics and Contextualized Rhetoric:
Consolidation or Subversion?
Jos ngel GARCA LANDA, University of Zaragoza
The Story behind any Story: Evolution, Historicity, and
Narrative Mapping

10.30-10.45 Pause
10.45-12.15

Room D
PARALLEL SESSIONS IV

Panel 5: Translating Narrative Theory
Convened by Sylvie PATRON, University of Paris Diderot-Paris 7
Masahiro IWAMATSU, Kwansei Gakuin University
Problems in Translating Literary Theory into Japanese
Bahar DERVICEMALOLU, Ege University
The Problem of Translating Narratological Terminology into
Turkish
Sylvie PATRON, University of Paris Diderot-Paris 7
Translating S.-Y. Kuroda: Past and Present
Room G Panel 6: Narrativity and Intermediality
Convened by Tobias HERMANS, Ghent University
Knut HOLTSTRTER, University of Bayreuth
When the Bard Lies: Remarks on Music from a Musicological
and Literary Theory Perspective
Karl KATSCHTHALER, University of Debrecen
Autobiographical authenticity in music? The question of the
secret vocal line in Alban Bergs Lyric Suite revisited in a
narratological perspective
Tobias HERMANS, Ghent University
Putting Music into Words: Robert Schumann and the
creation of the Romantic critical narrative

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Room A Group 18: The Narrative Turn and Classical and Postclassical
Narratologies
Chair: Ondej SLDEK, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Roy SOMMER, University of Wuppertal
Merger or joint venture? A consolidated model of classical
and postclassical narratologies
Philippe ROUSSIN, CNRS / Maison Franaise dOxford / CRAL
What Lessons can be Drawn from the Narrative Turn in the
Human and Social Sciences?
Paul DAWSON, University of New South Wales, Australia
How Many Turns Does it Take to Change a Discipline?
Narratology and the Interdisciplinary Rhetoric of the Narrative
Turn
Room B Group 19: Fictionality and Space
Chair: Jos ngel GARCA LANDA, University of Zaragoza
Henrik Skov NIELSEN, Aarhus University
Ten Theses about Fictionality
Richard WALSH, University of York
Narrative and Spatial Modelling: Fictional Worlds Reconsidered
Joshua PARKER, University of Salzburg
Spatial Metaphors in Postclassical Narratology:
A Compensation for Settings own Content?
Room C Group 20: Hypertext Multimedia Fandom
Chair: Michelle MASS, Louisiana State University
Nora BERNING, University of Gieen
Critical Ethical Narratology as Emerging Vector and the
Poethics of Mark Bowdens Hypertext Blackhawk Down
Erik PIETSCHMANN, University of Tbingen
Tell your life story: Linking Life and Identity through
Multimedia Narration in Facebooks Timeline
Veerle VAN STEENHUYSE, Ghent University
Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice in Cyberspace: Charting
the World-building Practices of Online Fandom
Room E Group 21: Transgenericity
Chair: Carla CARIBONI KILLANDER, Lund University
Ludmila TATARU, Sartov State University, Russia
Lyric Poetry as Speech Genre
Beatriz PENAS-IBEZ, University of Zaragoza
Socio-Pragmatics and Narrative (Non-)Standardness:
The Example of Haiku-like Minimal Narratives

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Room F Group 22: Expectation, Disruption, Hidden Narrative
Chair: Adriana BONTEA, Pembroke College, Oxford / CNRS-
EHESS, Paris
Carmen MUAT, University of Bucharest
What Expectation Means to Narrative
Micha MRUGALSKI, University of Warsaw / University of Tbingen
Mechanics of Disruption. Interruption Theory of Narrative
Dragana VUKIEVI, Belgrade University
Hidden Narratives
Room H Group 23: Cinema II
Chair: James V. CATANO, Louisiana State University
Jan ALBER, University of Freiburg
The Representation of Character Interiority in Film
Ursula-Helen KASSAVETI, National and Kapodistrian University
of Athens
Popular Film Genre Narratives: Unveiling the Structure of
Feeling
Emily ANDERSON, Knox College, Illinois
Sin City and Style: Toward a Transmedial Approach to
Discourse

12.15-13.15

Lunch: Restaurant universitaire Maison internationale
23, boulevard Jourdan
13.30-14.00
Room A
Business Meeting
14.00-14.45

Room A
PLENARY SESSION IV

Raphal BARONI, University of Lausanne
The Garden of Forking Paths: A Change of Perspective on
Narrative Sequence

14.45-15.00 Pause

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15.00-17.00

Room A
PARALLEL SESSIONS V

Workshop: What Kind of Narrative Theory for Musical Narra-
tology? (II)
Convened by Mrta GRABCZ, University of Strasbourg / IUF,
Paris
Violaine ANGER, Universit dEvry / cole polytechnique, Paris
Romeo et Juliette de Berlioz : deux styles de musique
narrative pour deux rapports diffrents la scne
Gabriel SEVILLA, University of Geneva
Curiosity, Suspense, and Proto-narrative Tension: The Three
Riddles in Giacomo Puccinis Turandot
Nicolas MARTY, Universit Paris-Sorbonne
Furthering the Bases of a Natural Narratology for Music
Jana GAVRILIU, University of Bucarest
Is there a sound in this painting?
Room D Workshop: Narratology of Greco-Roman Myths and their
Pragmatics
Convened by Claude CALAME, CRAL / EHESS, Paris
Claude CALAME, CRAL / EHESS, Paris
De la narratologie structurale la pragmatique nonciative
du rcit : formes potiques grecques entre mythe et rite
Kerasia A. STRATIKI, IDEF Paris (Athnes) / Universit de Patras
La fondation de Patras travers la Perigse de Pausanias
Charles DELATTRE, Universit de Paris Ouest Nanterre
Pour une narratologie pragmatique de la mythographie :
lexemple des traits thmatiques grecs (Palaiphatos, Parth-
nios de Nice, Antoninus Liberalis)
Federico PIANZOLA, University of Florence
The Legacy of Prometheus Bound in Primo Levis Short Stories
Room B Panel 7: Metalepsis out of Bounds
Convened by Saartje GOBYN, Ghent University
Liviu LUTAS, Lund University
Metalepsis and History The Example of Three Francophone
Writers
Saartje GOBYN, Ghent University
On the Metaleptic Structure of Gnter Grass Die Rttin
Kangru WU, Capital Normal University, Beijing
Coexistence and Participation: Metalepsis and Mise en
Abyme in Chinese Literature

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Room F Pre-conference seminar lectures III
Chair: Margarida MCMURRY, University of Oslo
Maximilian ALDERS, University of Freiburg
The Embodiment of Collective Minds
Sebastian ARMBRUST, Hamburg University
Plot Models and Complex Television Seriality
Margarida MCMURRY, University of Oslo
The Role of Assumptions in If on a Winters Night a Traveller
Golnaz SHAMS, University of Oslo
The Application of the Thought-Action Continuum in the
Consciousness Construction Procedure in Shaw, Wilde and
Ibsens Plays
Klaus-Peter SPEIDEL, University of Paris Sorbonne-Paris 4
But it does tell! Working towards a new consensus on the
narrative picture
Room G Pre-conference seminar lectures IV
Chair: Urania MILEVSKI, University of Kassel
Violeta AVETISIAN, Ilia State University, Tbilisi
The Chronotope of Remembrance in Vladimir Nabokovs
Mashenka and in Grigol Robakidzes The Snakes Skin
Urania MILEVSKI, University of Kassel
From a sociological poetics of voice towards a sociological
poetics of space
Zsfia PL-LUKCS, University of Pcs
Verbal and Visual Narration of Tenebrae
Lena SCHCH, Hamburg University
Causal ascription in contemporary song lyrics
Angela WHALE, University of Konstanz
Unreliable, Transmedial Narrators
Room C Group 24: Authorial Intrusions Pronominal Usage
Chair: Liya WANG, Beijing Normal University
Veronika ZUSEVA-ZKAN, Russian State University for the
Humanities, Moscow
Novel with Authorial Intrusions and the Genesis of Meta-Novel
Reiko IKEO, Senshu University, Japan
Like Similes in First-person Narrative
Filip KRTIKA, Charles University, Prague
We-narratives and Collective Memory: The Case of William
Faulkners A Rose for Emily

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Room E Group 25: Perspectives on the Unnatural
Chair: Jan ALBER, University of Freiburg
Stefan IVERSEN, Aarhus University
Broken or Unnatural? On the Distinctions of Fictionality in
Non-conventional Narration
Silvia CHIRIL, Humboldt University, Berlin
Unnatural Storyworlds, Broken Narratives, Fluid Characters
in Toni Morrisons Novels
Divya DWIVEDI, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Time and Unnatural Narratology
Room H Group 26: Narrative in Cultural Space
Chair: Matthias BRTSCH, University of Zurich
Fiona DOLOUGHAN, The New University, UK
New wor(l)d orders: The geosemiotics of narrative text
Zoi TSIVILTIDOU, University of Arts in Belgrade / Universit
Lumire Lyon II
Storytelling and Urban Collective Consciousness: An Organic
Brew of Participatory Creativity
Yoko TSUCHIYAMA, EHESS, Paris
Creating Narratives of Cultural Heritage: Reconstructing the
Past
Cindie MAAGAARD, University of Southern Denmark
Visualizing Constructions Yet to Be: Narratological Models
and Architectural Renderings
17.15
Room A
Close of the conference

Saturday, March 30 from 8 to 12 p.m.

Conference banquet at:

La Coupole
Salon privatif Le Dancing
102, boulevard du Montparnasse
75014 Paris

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Abstracts
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Keynote speakers


Raphal BARONI, Associate Professor
School of French as a Foreign Language, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
[email protected] Plenary session IV, Room A

The Garden of Forking Paths: A Change of Perspective on Narrative
Sequence

From the period that David Herman refers to as classical narratology to the
present day, we can observe major shifts in the way plot and narrative se-
quence are dealt with, giving new insights into the dynamics and indeterminacy
of narrative structures. This shift has transformed what used to be considered
a symmetrical construction (focusing on the unity of the story shaped by the
teller) into a kind of labyrinth in which virtual events become as important as
events that have been actually told. Thus, despite a proliferation of epistemolo-
gies (functionalism, cognitive science, etc.), postclassical narratologies converge
by stating that in order to understand the forms and functions of plots, we
must take into account the dialectical interplay between narrative and con-
sciousness (Herman 2007). On this basis, it is no longer possible to avoid the
analysis of how readers decisions contribute to the construction of the narra-
tive world (Kafalenos 2001). Commenting on a short story of Borges, The
Garden of Forking Path, I shall distinguish between three ways of dealing with
the virtualities of the story: 1) accounting for the virtualities actually told; 2)
providing cognitive models explaining how readers shape implicit virtualities;
3) describing the effects of virtual events on empirical readings. The potential
tensions between these three perspectives can be seen as challenges that con-
temporary narratology must face when going beyond the mere description of
the internal logic of the fabula.


Raphal BARONI is an associate professor at the School of French a Foreign
Language at the University of Lausanne. In 2005, he created, with Thrse Jean-
neret, the Research Group on Language Biographies, and in 2010, with
Franoise Revaz, the narratology network of French-speaking Switzerland (RRN,
www.narratologie.ch). His works seek to develop both the general theory of nar-
rative and to take into account its implications for the teaching of literature
and foreign languages. Author of more than sixty articles, Baroni has published
two books on narrative tension, the poetics of plot and the relationship be-
tween time and literary narration: Luvre du temps. Potique de la discordance
narrative (2009) and La Tension narrative (2007). He has also co-edited several
books and journal issues, including Rencontre de narrativits : perspectives
sur lintrigue musicale (Cahiers de narratologie, n 21, 2011) and Le Savoir des
genres (2007).
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Jos ngel GARCA LANDA, Senior lecturer in English
Department of English and German Philology, University of Zaragoza, Spain
[email protected] Plenary session III, Room A

The Story behind any Story: Evolution, Historicity, and Narrative
Mapping

The narratives of the world are numberless; yet, all stories may be seen as
chapters of a single story. Evolutionary approaches to literary and cultural
phenomena (E. O. Wilson, Joseph Carroll) have led to a growing awareness that
these literary and cultural phenomena are best accounted for within a consili-
ent disciplinary framework. From this consilient standpoint, human modes of
communication must be contextualized as situated historical phenomena, and
history as such is to be placed within the wider context of the evolution of
human societies and of life generally (what is often called big history). Using
the notions of narrative mapping and narrative anchoring, the present lec-
ture aims to draw from the aforementioned theoretical outlook a series of con-
clusions relevant to narratology, in particular to the narratological conceptual-
ization of time. Cultural conceptions of big history underpin the production,
the reception and the critical analysis of any specific narrative, as well as any
narrativizing strategy, in the sense that these conceptions provide both a gen-
eral ideational background to the experiences depicted in the narratives, and a
mental framework in which to situate (e.g., historicize) the narrative genres
used in the depiction.


Jos ngel GARCA LANDA (MA Brown University, PhD University of Zaragoza) is
a senior lecturer in English at the Facultad de Filosofa y Letras, University of
Zaragoza. He has coedited the Longman Critical Reader on Narratology (1996)
and the volumes Gender, I-deology (1996) and Theorizing Narrativity (2008). He
is the author of Samuel Beckett y la Narracin Reflexiva (1992) and of Accin,
Relato, Discurso: Estructura de la ficcin narrativa (1998). He is the past editor
of Miscelnea: A Journal of English and American Studies and is currently edit-
ing A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology, a free-access
online resource.

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Jan Christoph MEISTER, Professor Dr.
Department of Languages, Literatures and Media German Studies, Hamburg
University, Germany
[email protected] Plenary session II, Room A

Towards a Computational Narratology

Vladimir Propp is generally seen as one of the forefathers of structuralist narra-
tology. Undeniably, the radical abstraction from narrative content underlying
his model of action functions introduced a new theoretical paradigm in narra-
tive studies. Moreover, Propp is sometimes also credited with practicing the
first corpus-based, empirical approach in the philologies (even though the claim
to a truly inductive, bottom-up, corpus-based method of theory formation in
his studies could not be validated by Bremond, Pavel and others who tried to
re-run Propps formula on the texts of his fairy tale corpus). Few narratologists
are aware, however, of Propps astounding influence in a completely separate
scientific domain: Artificial Intelligence research. Starting with David Rummel-
harts initial Notes on a Schema for Stories (1975), scores of AI and Computa-
tional Creativity researchers have referred to Propp as a key witness for the
claim that narrative constructs are, at least in principle, computable.
Propps methodological heritage can indeed be put to use in the context of
computational approaches in narrative studies, but also in an emerging practice
which I term Computational Narratology. This practice is anything but artifi-
cial, however. Rather, its aim is to enable humans to study narrative phenome-
na diachronically and in large corpora.


Jan Christoph MEISTER is a professor of Modern German Language at Hamburg
University. Previous appointments include professorships at the University of
the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) and at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt (Mu-
nich). In addition to his research on German authors ranging from Schnabel and
Goethe to Broch, Ernst Wei, Leo Perutz and Uwe Timm, he specializes in narra-
tology and the digital humanities. He is currently director of the Interdiscipli-
nary Center for Narratology (ICN) at Hamburg University and executive editor
of the online Living Handbook of Narratology. His narratological publications
include Computing Action. A Narratological Approach (2003), Einfhrung in die
Erzhltextanalyse (with Silke Lahn, 2008) and two edited volumes: Literary
Criticism: Mediality, Disciplinarity (2005) and Time: From Concept to Narrative
Construct. A Reader (2011).

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Brian RICHARDSON, Professor
Department of English, University of Maryland
[email protected] Parallel Session I, Room A

The Boundaries of Narrative and the Limits of Narratology

This talk begins with a definition of unnatural narrative, explains the limita-
tions of existing narrative theories that neglect or are unable to comprehend
antimimetic texts, and explores the curious worlds of unnatural narrative se-
quences, especially those that offer multilinear stories such as those present in
Robert Coovers The Babysitter or Tom Tykwers Lola rennt. It goes on to ex-
amine a number of unnatural texts that locate themselves at the boundary of
narrative and thereby invite us to clarify our notion of what a narrative is. Rich-
ardson looks at Becketts experimental text Ping and Alain Robbe-Grillets La
Chambre secrte in order to determine whether there is sufficient narrativity
for either to be a narrative. The same question is then asked of David
Marksons This is Not a Novel to see whether the text lives up to its title, and to
determine what the consequences of doing so might be. Richardson examines
some common definitions of narrative to determine their utility when applied
to texts that challenge the limits of narrative. He concludes with a definition
adequate for such liminal works.


Brian RICHARDSON is a professor in the English Department of the University of
Maryland, where he teaches modern literature and narrative theory. He is the
author or co-author of three books: Unlikely Stories: Causality and the Nature of
Modern Narrative (1997); Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and
Contemporary Fiction (2006; Perkins Prize winner); and Narrative Theory: Criti-
cal Concepts and Current Debates, with David Herman, James Phelan, Peter
Rabinowitz, and Robyn Warhol (2012). He has edited three anthologies: Narra-
tive Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frames (2002); Narrative Be-
ginnings: Theories and Practices (2008); and A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative
(with Jan Alber and Henrik Skov Nielsen; forthcoming). He has guest edited
special issues of Style on Concepts of Narrative (34.2, 2000) and on The
Implied Author (44.1, 2011) and has published articles on many aspects of
modernism and narrative theory, including plot, time, character, narration,
reflexivity, and reader response theory. In 2011, he was President of the Inter-
national Society for the Study of Narrative. He is currently completing a book
on the theory and history of unnatural narratives from antiquity to postmod-
ernism.

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Jean-Marie SCHAEFFER
Directeur dtudes lEHESS; Directeur de recherche au CNRS
[email protected] Plenary session I, Room A

From Narrativity to Narrative Art

Narrativity, as a specific form of organizing mental representations, is widely
recognized as a basic ingredient of individual identity. But narratives, be they
serious or playful, are also an important component of everyday communi-
cative interaction. And of course the art of telling stories factual, fictional
or whatever is one of the major creative achievements of most human cul-
tures. How, then, do narrativity, narrative communication and narrative art re-
late? Do narrative, communicative interaction and narrative art relate to narra-
tivity as in the heyday of generative linguistics, when surface structure was
supposed to relate to deep structure, or performance to competence? Or should
we consider both narrative communicative interaction and narrative art as
emergent activities, irreducible to narrativity defined as a way of organizing
mental content? Or are all three activities simply different ways of doing the
same thing, none of them being more basic or fundamental than the others?


Jean-Marie SCHAEFFER is Directeur dtudes at the EHESS and Directeur de re-
cherche at the CNRS. He works in the fields of philosophical aesthetics, philos-
ophy of mind and literary studies. His publications include Petite cologie des
tudes littraires (2010), La fin de lexception humaine (2007), Why Fiction?
(2011; originally in French, 1999), Art of the Modern Age (2000; originally in
French, 1992) and, in collaboration with Nathalie Heinich, Art, cration, fiction.
Entre philosophie et cration (2004).

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Dan SHEN, Changjiang Professor
Department of English, Peking University, China
[email protected] Plenary session III, Room A

Contextualized Poetics and Contextualized Rhetoric: Consolidation
or Subversion?

The relation between form and history has been a hot topic for debate since the
1980s. Classical narrative poetics, because of its decontextualization, has been
criticized by contextualist approaches. And rhetorical theory, although figuring
as a postclassical approach since the 1990s, has likewise been criticized for
neglecting sociohistorical context. But the focus on context, while valuable,
should not be understood as subverting or replacing the focus on form in the
case of poetics. Instead, within poetics, we need a decontextualized focus on
formal structures and techniques. In narrative criticism, we need to relate those
formal distinctions to specific contexts. This paper tries to reveal that the ef-
forts to contextualize poetics have in fact come up with decontextualized struc-
tural distinctions, and that, in contextualist approaches, form and history can
coexist in a harmonious relation between decontextualized poetics and contex-
tualized criticism. As regards rhetorical narrative theory, this paper argues that
contextualist challenges function to bring into play the historicizing potential
in the theory, and that form and history can enjoy a balance in the theory, since
its key concepts, implied author and authorial audience, have in essence a
textual emphasis and an unacknowledged historical emphasis.


Dan SHEN (PhD Edinburgh) is Changjiang Professor of English and Director of
the Center for European and American Literatures at Peking University. She is
on the advisory board of Style and on the editorial boards of Language and
Literature and JLS: Journal of Literary Semantics as well as consultant editor of
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Apart from her numerous
books and essays published in China, she has published more than thirty es-
says in North America and Europe in the journals Narrative, Poetics Today, Style,
JNT: The Journal of Narrative Theory and in the online Living Handbook of
Narratology, etc. Her book project Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction:
Covert Progressions Behind Overt Plots is under contract with Routledge.


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Workshops


Workshop What Kind of Narrative Theory for
Musical Narratology?

Convened by Mrta GRABCZ, University of Strasbourg / Institut Uni-
versitaire de France (Paris)

The idea of music and narrative as a new research paradigm has developed
since the 1980s. Fred E. Maus describes its contradictory evolution in the Unit-
ed States in three stages: 1) optimistic use of narrative analogies until the
1990s; 2) emergence of opposition to musical narratology during the same
decade; 3) since about 2002, a rebirth of interest in narrative analogies in musi-
cal analysis, but with neither controversy nor enthusiasm.
In Europe, where the methodological background is more homogeneous, chang-
es have occurred without conflicts: here, musical narratology has developed
mainly within the framework of the Musical Signification Project (ICMS), backed
up with the theories of Propp, Greimas, Ricur, Bremond, etc. Early on in the
development of narrative musicology in the English-speaking countries, howev-
er, a dichotomy between formalist and thematic tendencies can be observ-
ed: some music analysts were interested in narrative voice (the primary au-
thorial voice) related to musical form or in listening strategies, while others
sought to bring out the expressive logic of music through the use of expressive
genres, topics, narrative analogies.
More recently, postclassical narrative theories have emerged in support of
musical analysis: intertextuality and intermediality; cognitive sciences through
the use of proto-narrative structures; J. J. Liszkas trans-evaluation theory; M.
Fluderniks natural narratology; research on anti-narrative devices; postclassi-
cal definitions of plot, tension, sequentiality, narrative agency, narrative perso-
na, teleology, etc.
In comparison with todays dazzling developments in narrative theory, musical
narratology is a latecomer. This is a discipline that presupposes a dual com-
petency a rarity among musicologists, who are thus in need of constant ex-
changes with narratologists around the themes of transmedial research.

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Abstracts


Parallel sessions I: Friday March 29 from 15 to 17, Room A

Mrta GRABCZ, professeur
UFR Arts, Universit de Strasbourg / Institut Universitaire de France, Paris
[email protected]

Image de la narratologie musicale dans les ouvrages de narratologie
gnrale

Depuis les annes 1990, les thories de la narratologie ont volu grande
vitesse. Les publications en tmoignent : les monographies et les anthologies
parues dans des collections comme Narratologia (de Gruyter), par exem-
ple, ainsi que des ouvrages synthtiques comme A Companion to Narrative
Theory (2005), Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory (2005), Handbook of
Narratology (2009) ou Cahiers de Narratologie (depuis 2001), etc.
Ces collections et ces ouvrages rservent souvent une place non-ngligeable la
narratologie trans-disciplinaire ou trans-mdiatique, en invitant des chercheurs
de diffrents horizons dvelopper la narratologie dans telle discipline artis-
tique.
Mon intervention portera sur limage que donne de la narratologie musicale la
bibliographie cite dans le cadre de la narratologie thorique. Parfois, la con-
frontation avec des travaux narratologiques des musicologues simpose. Cette
question sera galement brivement voque.


Vera MICZNIK, Professor of Musicology
School of Music, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
[email protected]

A Possible Musical-Narrative Theory

My music narratological theory is based in several literary narrative and semiot-
ic theories. I follow structuralist narrative theories that postulate a tension be-
tween story and discourse time (histoire/rcit; fabula/sujet, erzhlte Zeit/
Erzhlzeit) as a requirement for the existence of narrative. Since music is said
not to have a precise signified, but only signifiers, this would mean that music
would only present discourse but not story. I have devised a three-layered
concept of musical meaning which can accommodate at least some recognition
of musical signifieds. I see the meaning of musical units in three layers: 1)
morphological level (note values, pitches, etc.); 2) syntactic level (organization
of note values, pitches, etc. into signifying syntactic units such as motives and
phrases, including harmonic syntax, conventional cadences, etc. with their
meanings which are mainly syntactic, but bridge into the semantic field); 3)
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semantic level (which includes semantic re-interpretations of the syntactic
meanings, connotational meanings through infinite chains of semiosis [from
Barthes and Eco], musical topics, intertextuality). With the semantic level acting
as the story and aspects of time organization (such as order, duration, fre-
quency of events), point of view, etc. (Genette, Bal) as discourse, I provide
musical examples of degrees of narrativity in Mahler and other composers.


Christian HAUER, Professeur
Centre dtude des Arts Contemporains, Universit Lille 3, France
[email protected]

Lapport de la narratologie musicale la narratologie contemporaine

La narratologie musicale sest dveloppe dans les annes 1980, dans le cadre
de la narratologie classique. Puis, la narratologie post-classique a ouvert
dautres perspectives encore la narratologie musicale.
Cet expos vise montrer que la rciproque est galement possible.
(1) En sappuyant sur les travaux de Raphal Baroni, il est possible de formuler
plus prcisment les processus narratifs propres une uvre musicale et,
partir de l, de proposer une formulation enrichie de ces travaux sur le plan
plus gnral des processus instituant la tension narrative et de lactualisation
des structures narratives par un lecteur considr au sens large.
(2) Cest justement parce que la musique ne peut pas raconter, au sens fort du
terme, quelle peut apporter de nouveaux clairages la narratologie contem-
poraine :
- pour donner forme la musique, un interprte est indispensable : quel est le
statut narratologique de ce conteur, la fois lecteur et (re-)crateur qui narre
sans raconter ?
- en raison de son incapacit raconter, la musique a t souvent rduite la
seule capacit dexprimer et susciter des emotions : quen est-il vraiment et
quel est lapport pour la narratologie des recherches menes dans ce domaine,
de mme que dans celui de la psychologie de la petite enfance ?


Magorzata PAWOWSKA, PhD
Academy of Music, Cracow, Poland
[email protected]

Narrative in Musical Works Based on the Story of Romeo and Juliet

In this paper I am going to reflect on the ways in which musical works can
construct narrative, taking into consideration several significant compositions
of various styles and genres inspired by the story of Romeo and Juliet (i.e.,
musical pieces by Bellini, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Gounod, Bernstein, Dusapin and
film music by Rota).
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The discussion on whether music can construct narrative has been very vivid,
both in general narratology and in musicological writings. Among the variety of
media in which the concept of narrative is usually referred to, music seems the
most controversial. However, narrative theory is being more and more widely
applied in music interpretations (e.g., Tarasti, Grabcz, Hatten, Monelle, Micz-
nik, Almn).
Inspired by some of these approaches, as well as by general narratology, I will
try to interpret the aforementioned musical works with the use of narrative
theory while taking into account the subsequent levels of story, discourse and
deep narrative structure. Musical examples will be employed to illustrate how
music can enact diegetic and mimetic modes.

Parallel sessions V: Saturday, March 30 from 15 to 17, Room A

Violaine ANGER, Lecturer and Research Supervisor
Universit dEvry / cole polytechnique
[email protected]

Romeo et Juliette de Berlioz : deux styles de musique narrative pour
deux rapports diffrents la scne

Deux passages orchestraux scandent Romeo et Juliette : le duo damour dans
lequel les deux amants se dclarent lun lautre, et lInvocation au tombeau
dans lequel ils meurent. Berlioz suppose, dans les deux cas, que lhistoire est
dj connue, de faon trs prcise (la mise en scne de Garrick). Par ailleurs, il
affirme quil requiert limagination du spectateur, surtout dans le deux-
ime passage.
Dans ces deux moments, il crit une musique rsolument narrative, mais ces
deux passages nont rien voir musicalement. Le premier rpond aux critres
formels dun mouvement lent de symphonie, tandis que le second relve de la
musique descriptive, quasiment illustrative, par la rfrence des styles musi-
caux dj constitus (critures dopra, travail timbrique des cuivres, etc.). Deux
stratgies narratives diffrentes qui mettent en uvre deux imaginaires du
rapport entre la configuration sonore et les mots absents, ou les gestes vo-
qus. Ce faisant, cest aussi un imaginaire du personnage en musique qui est
luvre : si la cration dun personnage imaginaire parlant dans la musique
instrumentale passe, dans les deux cas, par lvocation orchestrale de la voix (et
la citation dune phrase musicale dont le sens est dj prcis dans le Prologue),
son paisseur scnique, en revanche, na rien voir. lintroversion du
mouvement lent correspondent les gestes plus extrieurs et donc visibles
de lInvocation. Comment les caractristiques narratives diffrentes de ces deux
moments sont-elles lies une activit signifiante diffrente de la musique ?

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Gabriel SEVILLA, PhD in Humanites, Lecturer
European Institute of the University of Geneva, Switzerland
[email protected]

Curiosity, Suspense, and Proto-narrative Tension: The Three Riddles
in Giacomo Puccinis Turandot

The main goal of my paper is to contribute to the definition of the main similar-
ities and differences between the proto-narrative tension of music and the
narrative tension of words and images. With this aim in view, I focus on the
intermedial (verbal, iconic, musical) example of the three riddles in Puccinis
Turandot (Act 2, Scene II). The dialogues and the staging in Turandot create
curiosity and suspense (Sternberg, Brewer, Baroni), which are underlined by the
musical score in proto-narrative terms. It is because it does not create its own
topics that Puccinis score repeats the same harmonic and melodic structures
of tension and distention complementing each time different verbal (riddles)
and iconic (gestures, staging) formulae. The overall result is a meaningful syn-
thesis of the complex intermedial relationships between curiosity, suspense,
and proto-narrative tension. This refers us not only to the contemporary semi-
otic debate on musical narrativity (Tarasti, Grabcz, Agawu, Molino, Nattiez,
etc.), but also to the reflections in Western philosophy on the historical and
poetic links between words, music, and pictures (Aristotle, Rousseau, Niet-
zsche, Adorno, etc.).


Nicolas MARTY, M. Mus.
Observatoire Musical Franais, Universit Paris-Sorbonne
[email protected]

Furthering the Bases of a Natural Narratology for Music

At this point in my theoretical developments, it seems necessary to better ex-
plain the reasons for a model such as a natural narratology for music. From
my point of view, musicology needs to investigate musical narrativity, rather
than the narrativity of music. Fluderniks framework offers a deeper concept of
narrativity that cannot be overlooked: narrativity consists in experientiality
(and consciousness) of an anthropomorphic nature.
In literature, as long as the reader understands the language used, s/he will be
able to distinguish between character(s), author(s), narrator(s), etc. But music,
unlike spoken language, relies on the present experience of the listener without
the need for referential meaning. The study of musical narrativity may thus
begin with breaking the usual continuum between producer, work and receptor,
and replacing it with a solely esthesic view.
Although Fludernik starts at an abstract level, she quickly applies her thinking
to natural (i.e., oral, person-to-person) narrative, straying from direct experi-
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ence in order to study how this experience is recounted, transmitted. Adapting
her model to an esthesic musicological view therefore means defining which
concepts can be applied to music and which cannot. This, along with an over-
view of the potential uses of the model, is the aim of this presentation.


Jana GAVRILIU, doctor in philology
Excellence Center in Image Studies, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
[email protected]

Is there a sound in this painting?

In Renaissance. Studies in Art and Poetry (1980), Walter Pater notes that one art
could pass into the condition of some other art, a feature that is, in his view, a
great Anders-streben of all arts. Moreover, as other-striving entities, the arts
are motivated toward reaching each other not to displace each other, but rather
to lend each other new forces. Paraphrasing Elicia Clements (Victorian Aesthetic
Conditions. Pater Across the Arts, 2010), we could say that this situation implies
a kind of fluctuation of mutability and transparency among arts.
Starting from these ideas, my contribution aims to discuss the manner in which
music narratively dissipates, modulates, infiltrates paintings and generates, as
Victor Turner says in Limilarity and Communitas (1969), experiences of narra-
tive liminality in pictorial-acoustic arenas. I argue that music sometimes narra-
tively saturates the pictorial space, creating, in an other-strivingly way, narrative
soundlandscapes, soundportraits and soundstill-lifes. I also stress that even if
the determination of narrative voice has considerable limitations, there are
sometimes, in these in-between musical-pictorial states, nonverbal narrative
personae. There are more or less overt, more or less covert or unsung voices
(Douglass Seaton, Narrative in Music: The Case of Beethovens Tempest Sona-
ta, 2005) as narrative pictorial sonorities embodied in visual or sonorous picto-
rial cues.

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Workshop Narratology of Greco-Roman Myths
and their Pragmatics

Convened by Claude CALAME, CRAL / EHESS, Paris

Greek and Roman myths exist only in poetic and discursive forms that have a
powerful pragmatic dimension. The workshop will concentrate on the interrela-
tionships between the logic of narrative considered as mythic and the logic of
ritual practice, doing so through narrative forms that are generally dramatized
(e.g. Attic tragedy) and intended for specific situations of enunciation. Using
concrete examples, attention will thus be focused on a pragmatic narratology
based not only on syntactic and semantic structures corresponding to a specific
cultural circumstance but also on enunciative strategies providing evidence of a
ritualized situation of enunciation: a cultural, emotional, and esthetic pragmat-
ics to be studied through an approach to discourse analysis from the perspec-
tive of historical anthropology (ethnopoetics). Greek and Roman myths for
the promotion of a narratology designed for cultural memory and its various
poetic and ritual forms.


Abstracts

Parallel sessions V : Saturday March 30 from 15 to 17, Room D

Claude CALAME, Directeur dtudes
CRAL / EHESS, Paris
[email protected]

De la narratologie structurale la pragmatique nonciative du rcit :
formes potiques grecques entre mythe et rite

En narratologie, le grand tournant nest pas celui qui conduit de la narratologie
classique , cest--dire structurale, la narratologie postclassique ,
cest--dire cognitive, mais celui impliqu par la prise en considration de la
pragmatique des textes et des formes de discours. Au lieu de rfrer les formes
narratives dhypothtiques procdures crbrales et neuronales, la narratolo-
gie pragmatique part des marques et des stratgies de lnonciation inscrites
dans le texte et par consquent dans le discours. Ce sont ces procdures qui
non seulement orientent les infrences du public quant la smantique du
monde construit dans le texte, mais qui portent aussi les effets esthtiques et
motionnels suscits par le discours en acte.
Cest ce que lon aimerait montrer par le passage dune analyse structurale de
ces rcits plastiques que sont les mythes grecs une analyse pragmatique et
ethnopotique qui renvoie aux conditions dnonciation et de performance,
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dans une conjoncture historique, religieuse et culturelle particulire. Les
formes potiques qui modlent ces rcits traditionnels pour en faire des argu-
ments narratifs jouent un rle dterminant dans des performances ritualises
o des mondes possibles dordre verbal, entre fiction et ralit historique,
trouvent leur efficacit esthtique et rfrentielle.


Kerasia A. STRATIKI, Dr.
IDEF Paris (Athnes) / Universit de Patras
[email protected]

La fondation de Patras travers la Perigse de Pausanias

Une premire lecture de la narration de la fondation de Patras travers la Pe-
rigse nous montre que Pausanias admet deux tapes dans lhistoire ancienne
de la cit : la premire commence avec la fondation des trois komai dAro,
dAnthia et de Msatis, et la seconde avec celle de la polis de Patras. Ces tapes
historiques ont t symbolises par laction des hros locaux : Eumelos, le pre-
mier roi autochtone et fondateur des trois komai, et Patreus, le hros fondateur
de la polis. Pourtant, une lecture attentive de la narration de Pausanias peut
nous conduire vers une autre optique : le Perigte admet deux tapes dans
lhistoire ancienne de Patras, mais il distingue deux tapes dans la fondation de
la polis. La premire concerne sa fondation par les Achens, et la deuxime la
fondation de la colonie romaine dans la ville par Auguste. Dans ce cas aussi, les
tapes historiques sexpriment symboliquement par laction des hros locaux,
du fondateur ponyme et de son pre, Preugns, et dEurypyle, hros pique
qui introduit un culte nouveau dans la cit de Patras, comme le fera plus tard
Auguste. Ici, Auguste sidentifie avec les trois hros comme fondateur dorigine
tranger de la cit, maintenant romaine, qui comme eux apporte un nouvel
air dans la cit tout en respectant ses origines et son pass. Pausanias nous
livre le tmoignage le plus substantiel sur la fondation de la cit de Patras,
commenant sa narration, comme son habitude, par une vocation du pass
le plus lointain de Patras


Charles DELATTRE, Matre de confrences, habilit diriger
des recherches
Universit de Paris Ouest Nanterre
[email protected]

Pour une narratologie pragmatique de la mythographie : lexemple
des traits thmatiques grecs (Palaiphatos, Parthnios de Nice,
Antoninus Liberalis)

Les vingt dernires annes ont vu la recherche sur les mythes sinflchir,
notablement grce la pragmatique des textes et des discours : renouvelant la
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question des rapports entre mythe et rituel, les analyses narratologiques et
ethnopotiques sensibles la performance ont ouvert de nouvelles perspectives
sur la composition pique, mlique et dramatique dpoque archaque et clas-
sique et sur le rle des rcits, traditionnels et innovants, dont ces compositions
sont le support et le vecteur.
Le champ de la prose est rest largement ignor dans cette rvaluation des
mythes : la mythographie en particulier est toujours gnralement tenue pour
un ensemble de textes secondaires, informatifs, dont la performance dissocie
lauteur, exgte de cabinet tentant de faire rendre gorge des textes devenus
pour lui classiques, et le lecteur, qui se contenterait de consulter et de citer un
texte mythographique dfini comme manuel de rfrences.
Lexemple des traits thmatiques mythographiques (Palaiphatos, Parthnios de
Nice, Antoninus Liberalis, entre le IV
e
s. avant notre re et le II
e
s. de notre re)
montre au contraire comment les marques de lnonciation, accompagnes
dindices textuels, organisent une stratgie qui fait fusionner auteur et lecteur,
en mettant en avant des procds de lecture qui reposent sur des techniques de
mmoire et de rflexion. Ces traits obissent une performance particulire,
conditionne par la forme et lorganisation textuelle, propre chaque nonc,
et font advenir le mythe comme ensemble de reprsentations partiellement
fictionnelles.


Federico PIANZOLA, PhD student
Department of Italian, University of Florence, Italy
[email protected]

The Legacy of Prometheus Bound in Primo Levis Short Stories

Creation in its various aspects is a recurrent theme in Primo Levis narrative
and some basic narrative scripts of his fictional short stories are drawn from
mythical tales dealing with this topic. With respect to it, the richest and most
complex myth is perhaps the story of Prometheus, inventor of the useful arts
and moulder of mankind out of clay.
This paper illustrates the great influence the myth of Prometheus has on Levis
inventio and seeks to explore the meaning of its recurrence. Beside considering
the mythologeme of creation (Kernyi) and the legacy of the dcor mythique of
Aeschylus Prometheus Bound (G. Durand), I will also address the question of
the ritual function of Levis narrative: is testimony akin to Greek myths to the
extent of their ritual function? Do mythic elements in Levis stories endorse his
reflection on ethics? In particular, what do Levis conception of man as homo
faber and Prometheus anthropopoiesis (Calame) have in common?


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Panels


Panel 1 Visualizing Narrative Times

Parallel sessions I, Room D


Convened by Ellen MCCALLUM, Michigan State University

This panel brings together three papers that address the tensions between
consolidation and diversification in narratology by looking at how narrative
time works across a range of visual and print media forms. The panel responds
to the conferences call to examine the question of narrative in non-verbal
forms the plastic arts and music but also narrative in its pluri-medial
forms. The first paper deals with the acceleration of time in the closing of the
life story; the second deals with the timelessness of the voiceover in the film
essays visual narrative; and the third expands the cinematic concept of the
time image across experimental literature and visual art. All three papers refine
and reappraise our understanding of narrative as transformation (Todorov) or
as representation of event (Scholes) while recasting the more traditional story-
telling forms in light of innovative techniques developed in other media.

Abstracts

Michelle A. MASS, Professor of English & Womens and
Gender Studies
Department of English, Louisiana State University
[email protected]

Learning to Tell Time: Constructing Life Stages through Psychoanalytic
and Literary Narration

When we read And they lived happily ever after, we know that, despite the
promise of sempiternal joy and life, both story and plot have died. My presenta-
tion examines a particular sub-set of this formulation in which the moment of
characterological development at closure is defined through an adroit torsion
of time and narrative stance. This stratagem normalizes and consolidates char-
acters relation to time, positing a definition of the right goal of development,
whether for child, young adult, or the elderly.
Such subordinations of setting/space and event to character and time are con-
spicuous in hagiography, fairy tale, and the Bildungsroman. But psychoanalysis
tells its own stories about what it means to be a child or a grown-up.
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Through examining key fictional instances of accelerated time at closure in
Andersens The Snow Queen, Barries Peter and Wendy, and the final episode
of Six Feet Under, I argue that both psychoanalytic and fictional narratives are
often performing ideological work to establish age-normative standards and
minimize narrative diversification. Thinking specifically about Young-Bruehls
Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against Children, I demonstrate that the narra-
tive clock and narrative time is often set by an omniscient hand to sound an
alarm that character and audience must answer.


James V. CATANO, Professor
Department of English, Louisiana State University
[email protected]

Narrative Voice/over in the Film Essay

In Narrative Voice/over in the Film Essay, I discuss an arena in which prose
narrative would seem ripe for replacement by Astrucs camera-stylo or narra-
tive of the image.
The work of Godard and others notwithstanding, the spoken narration of tradi-
tional documentary remains central to nonfiction film essays. These are not
equivalent narrative stances or genre, of course, as Doanes and Wolfes discus-
sion of Voice-of-God narration makes clear. Documentarys narrative stance,
with its investment in an epistemology of truth, runs counter to the very tenor
of the essay and its Montaignean Que sais je? Bazin suggested as much in his
ground-breaking review of Chris Markers Letter from Siberia. But with that
claim in mind, Philip Lopate argues that Marker has been followed by painfully
few real film essayists: Varda, McElwee, maybe Mekas. Why is that? Is non-
fiction film skewed toward a narrative stance insistent on directness and decla-
ration? Is Astrucs call for a narrative of the visual simply unattainable? Is doc-
umentarys VoG tradition so dominant that it readily marginalizes Montaignean
narrative forms? Or is our definition of narration inadequate for visual forms
and formats? My presentation addresses what this set of clashing desires sig-
nals for the essay film and its narrative forms.


Ellen MCCALLUM, Associate Professor
Department of English, Michigan State University
[email protected]

Still Narrative: The Diversification of Narrative through the Time Image

Gilles Deleuzes notion of the time image (Cinema 2) derives from postwar
European films where characters find themselves in situations in which direct
action is impossible and narrative cannot be stitched together coherently
through continuity, causality, and movement. Its a mode of storytelling that
arrests the forward drive of plot by subordinating movement to time, even if
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that entails stalling out narrative into stillness. Deleuzes investigation trans-
forms cinema as we know it, and invites extension of his ideas to media that
are not cinematic, per se.
This paper examines two texts that expand the time image as a vector of narra-
tology beyond the cinematic: Henri Matisses large-scale cutouts, and Gertrude
Steins monumental novel The Making of Americans. Reading Deleuzes time
image through, with, and against both Steins novel and Matisses cutouts helps
us understand narrative movement and its relation to delay, stillness, and at-
tenuation. In the time image, discontinuities in narrative and situation prevail.
These features of discontinuity and alternative temporality exemplify how Stein
treats plot and character and how Matisses cutouts put in tension the distinc-
tion between figure and field. Both texts present a drama of scale, rhythm, and
improvisation that radically reinterprets narrative.

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Panel 2 Notes Towards an Embodied Narratology

Parallel sessions I, Room E


Convened by Karin KUKKONEN, Oxford, and Marco CARACCIOLO, Universi-
ty of Groningen

Embodiment the way in which cognitive processes are dependent on our phys-
ical bodies and our sensorimotor capacities is one of the key interests of
current cognitive science. This panel aims to open up a new perspective for
theorizing narrative by demonstrating that ideas and concepts from embodied
cognitive science can afford valuable insights into narrative texts. We explore a
number of issues pertaining to the embodied dimension of narrative: readers
felt sense of bodily involvement; patterns of identification with characters
bodies; the narrative representation of gestures and movements; and themati-
sation of the body in narrative. While investigating these aspects of literary
storytelling, the three papers assembled here also highlight the historical situ-
atedness of the case studies, showing that embodiment in narrative has served
a variety of functions in different historical contexts from Modernist Europe
to Romania under Ceauescu to contemporary reimaginings of Tudor Britain.
Embodiment is constantly renegotiated through the socio-cultural practices
surrounding the body in a given society and culture, and literary stories often
bear testament and reflect on this interaction between the cognitive and the
cultural dimension of embodiment.


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Abstracts

Marco CARACCIOLO, Post-doctoral researcher
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
[email protected]

Ccile GUDON, Post-doctoral researcher
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
[email protected]

Disrupting Gestures: Modernist Fiction and Kinesthetic Empathy in
Rilke, Tozzi, and Woolf

This paper aims to contribute to a general enquiry concerning the embodied
dimension of Modernism across the arts. This aspect, long neglected, has been
recently established for some media (cinema in particular), while for others,
including literature, it is still under investigation.
Our hypothesis is that modernist fiction makes a distinctive use of gestures at
the thematic level to generate ambiguity and disrupt narrative form and lineari-
ty. Building on Guillemette Bolens groundbreaking study of textual kinesics, we
will look at three modernist fictions: Rainer Maria Rilkes Notebooks of Malte
Laurids Brigge (1910), Federigo Tozzis With Closed Eyes (1919) and Virginia
Woolfs Mrs Dalloway (1925). To do so, we will draw on Alan Palmers (2004)
view that, in narrative, characters minds are typically well integrated within the
social world. By contrast, we will show how the disruptive gestures recounted
in these modernist novels are located on a fault line within this thought-action
continuum, thus unhinging a number of bodily movements from explicit plot
development and conventional social interaction within the storyworld.
In sum, we will suggest that modernist fiction engages readers kinaesthetic
empathy in order to call subjectivity and agency into question as continuous,
self-evident or transparent processes.


Sabine MLLER, Dr
Independent Researcher and Research Associate of the Balzan Interdisciplinary
Seminar (St Johns College, Oxford)
[email protected]

Body and Language in the Writings of Herta Mller

In her essay collection Der Knig verneigt sich und ttet (The King Bows and
Kills), Herta Mller challenges and revises the other state which describes the
state of an alienated perception as a source of the authors creativity. Instead,
Mllers account depicts this estrangement as the result of a fundamentally
disturbed normality and the disruption of our routines in handling objects in
our everyday lives. The effect of this disruption on identity and tellability in
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Herta Mllers literary texts is a powerful reflection on the way things and mind
are connected on how objects are tools of our extended minds and how
world is shaped based on this connection. Drawing on embodied approaches in
philosophy of perception (e.g., Shaun Gallagher, Alva No), I will discuss the
way in which Herta Mllers poetic novels build narrative space on the intrinsic
correlation between objects, mind and body and its disturbance, as they cap-
ture the everyday workings of persecution in the Ceauescu era. The analysis
focuses on embodied strategies that evoke this connection for (and in) the
reader and thus further explores aspects of experiencing spatial relations in
narrative worlds.


Karin KUKKONEN, Balzan Postdoctoral Research Fellow
St Johns College, Oxford
[email protected]

Bodies, Memory Space and Situated Conceptualisation in Hilary
Mantels Historical Fiction

Hilary Mantels recent novels Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring Up the Bodies (2012)
are historical fiction written in the present tense, so that the events at the court
of Henry VIII still seem to be in need of taking shape in the mind of her main
character, the lawyer and court official Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell orders his
world through spatialised mnemonic devices of the Renaissance tradition
(Yates 1966), and follows these structures in his politics. Indeed, not so much
time but space, and the bodies within it, constitutes the governing dimension of
Mantels historical fiction.
This paper examines the embodied, spatialised and situated strategies of mean-
ing-making that shape the storyworld of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
through insights from second-generation cognitive sciences, in particular em-
bodied memory (see Glenberg 1997). Memory, in this understanding, allows us
to develop patterns of possible physical interactions, given the constraints of
our bodies and the environment we move in. These patterns of interactions
contribute to the ways in which we conceptualise real, imaginary and remem-
bered situations (see Barsalou 2003), and in Mantels fiction, they shape the
course of the narrative as Thomas Cromwell uses his embodied memory to plot
the fall of Anne Boleyn.

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Panel 3 When myths become reality: At the
crossroads of organizational culture, stories, mind

Parallel sessions II, Room D


Convened by Kay MHLMANN, Danube University, Krems, Austria

This panel seeks to clarify the role played by narration in organizational con-
texts. Organizational narrations have a significant influence on how an organi-
zation is perceived by its members. They also show how real life goes on in
organizations. The panel gives an overall view of the functions of narration in
organizations by drawing on the underlying cognitive mechanisms within the
individual to explain how narration in these contexts work. Empirical evidence
is presented to back up the theoretical approach.

Abstracts

Kay MHLMANN, Researcher
Center for Journalism and Communication Management, Danube University,
Krems, Austria
[email protected]

Why organizations mind about stories
A meso-level model of the functional role of narration in organizations

The crucial role of narrations in organizations has been known for decades, and
consultants have been working with storytelling methods just as long. So far,
a framework synthesizing an overall model explaining the functions of narra-
tion in organizations has been missing in scientific discourse. To bring together
the different mechanisms of narration in the construction and transmission of
organizational culture, we have developed a model for the impact and function
of narration in organizations combining social system theory (Luhmann), social
identity theory (Tajfel and Turner) and structuralization theory (Giddens). This
approach allows us to include different forces and phenomena such as hierar-
chy, power, culture, identity and collective sensemaking which operate in com-
plex social systems such as organizations. The overall framework describes the
interdependency of the aspects mentioned above, and it shows the role that
organizational narration plays as manifestations of organizational culture as
well as their recursive nature and their role in constructing and communicating
a common reality. Based on that framework, areas of application aimed at
changing, transforming and/or stabilising organizational culture can be devel-
oped.

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Manuel NAGL, Researcher
Center for Cognition, Information and Management Danube University, Krems,
Austria
[email protected]

When stories meet schemas meet culture
A cognitive approach to narration in organizations

Organizational Sensemaking is a term commonly used to describe how mem-
bers of an organization construe their reality and work-related identity in or-
ganizational settings. Storytelling has been identified as one of the most prom-
ising approaches to enabling organizational sensemaking and thereby establish-
ing shared cultural knowledge. Based on the assumption that narration can
shape the way we think and feel, there is growing evidence that narratives
modulate sensemaking processes by influencing information processing at an
individual level. However, a scientific framework describing narrative reception
and its underlying cognitive mechanisms in the context of construction and
transmission of organizational culture has not yet been presented. Therefore,
we have developed a model delineating the process of sensemaking as a dy-
namic interaction between perceived narrative elements and activated mental
models. We maintain that narration helps members understand their organiza-
tional reality by generating, activating and organizing knowledge structures and
mental models relevant for interpreting the culture they live in. Narration
serves as an information processing template and thereby guides sensemaking
activities both on an individual and, through social information sharing, organ-
izational level. By combining cultural and cognitive approaches to organiza-
tional narratives, our model allows us to analyse, define and explain the princi-
pal functions of narration in organizational contexts, their impact on the cogni-
tive processes of organizational members and their influence on organizational
culture.


Gnther SCHREDER, Researcher
Center for Cognition, Information and Management, Danube University, Krems,
Austria
[email protected]

Only narrative news is good news?
Narrative intranet and its role in organizational sensemaking

Based on the cognitive approach and model of functionality of narration in
organizations presented earlier, we have examined the applicability of narration
as an instrument to improve the acceptance and impact of organizational in-
formation systems. In a case study, we focused on the intranet news of an
Austrian transportation provider. We conducted interviews and spoke with
focus groups to collect organizational stories told and experienced by organiza-
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tional members to gain insight into their shared views and assumptions (i.e.,
archetypes, common issues). A number of facts, personal concerns and experi-
ences not commonly known by co-workers were recorded as well. In two crea-
tive writing workshops with intranet editorial staff, narrative articles were
written based partly on the topics and findings of the interviews. These articles
were published in the corporate intranet. The results of an assessment of intra-
net-news (40 participants) comparing conventional with narrative news on
several usability and narrative impact dimensions will be presented. The prob-
lem of censorship and mitigation of personal experiences will be discussed, as
well.


Yan Bello MNDEZ, PMP
Management Consulting and Research, SpaceMinds. Spain
[email protected]

Appreciative Storytelling: Using narratives, stories and appreciative
inquiry in organizational change programs to transform culture

In todays knowledge-based society, information plays a critical role in all sorts
of organizations. Numerous business and societal decisions depend on effec-
tively working and exploiting the various sources of narratives and their inter-
play in an organizations life. With the numerous challenges emerging from the
need to address the continuous change in communities, teams and companies,
an increasing number of narrative-aware/sensible leaders are relying on foster-
ing and cultivating organizational conversations and dialogues that ignite crea-
tivity, innovation and participation at the same time that they provide effective
vehicles for questioning and revising existing beliefs and creating new visions
for the future. In this context, I share experiences and observations from the
use of an effective conversational-appreciative multi-cultural approach for
creating sustainable changes. This approach raises the chances of success of
cultural change programs by using and integrating multiple dimensions of
narratives media, artifacts, percussion instruments, rhythms, etc. performed
or created by the people involved and from external sources. The value of con-
necting Appreciative Inquiry and the ancient art of Storytelling is explored as
an effective way to foster informal learning with narratives and metaphors,
leading to and embracing diversity, resulting in lasting cultural change.

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Panel 4 Digital Flnerie and the Mapping of Amer-
ican Narratives of Paris

Parallel sessions II, Room E


Convened by Ellen MCCALLUM, Michigan State University

How has a narrative of American creativity been shaped by Paris? This question
inspired our research team to develop an interactive literary map of Paris de-
signed to reorient readers to the relationship between textual and urban space
within the works of American writers living in Paris. Using online mapping
software by ArcGIS, we have plotted the spatial referents of Paris from multiple
expatriate texts in order to explore zones of textual overlap and distance. Cre-
ated from the works of Edmund White, Ernest Hemingway, Mina Loy, James
Baldwin, and others, our literary map of Paris opens new avenues for what we
call digital flnerie. Users wander through a virtual Paris, developing their
own narrative of the city. Our panel is composed of papers that explore new
modes of narrative discourse facilitated by such a non-linear, digital flnerie.

Abstracts

Sarah PANUSKA, MA student
Department of English, Michigan State University
[email protected]

Narrative Spatiality and Emerging Forms of Interactivity

In Edmund Whites memoir, The Flneur, White transforms this traditional role
of the flneurs roaming interaction by juxtaposing elements of Paris spatiality
with the citys historical, ideological, and political concerns. I argue that the
online mapping of narrative space allows for a similar reworking of traditional
modes of textual interaction through the mediums ability to account for the
interpreters agency in an unprecedented fashion, perpetuating new forms of
interactivity for the interpreter, while disrupting and challenging traditional
diegetic and discourse systems.



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Laura MCGRATH, PhD student
Department of English, Michigan State University
[email protected]

Unplottable Plots and Narratives of Movement In/Through
Hemingways Paris

In comparatively mapping Ernest Hemingways A Moveable Feast and The Sun
Also Rises, it becomes clear that much of Hemingways narrative is advanced
while characters are in motion, moving from place to place, rather than occupy-
ing a static, plottable position. In these significant moments, the narrative is
propelled forward from within liminal spaces such as the taxicab, in which
characters occupy no single space, but an unplottable space marked by transi-
tion and movement. My paper explores these liminal, transitional non-spaces of
Hemingways prose. It argues that the unplottable nature of these spaces resists
traditional notions of narrative structure. Mapping illuminates the un-structure
of Hemingways narrative; through the interactive map, we see a narrative of
movement without linearity, of transition without development.


Steven AMBROSE, PhD student
Department of English, Michigan State University
[email protected]

Queer Paris and the Narrative of Identity in James Baldwins
Giovannis Room

James Baldwins Giovannis Room demonstrates the theoretical limits of trans-
lating the spaces and places of a narrative into a digital map. Addressing which
spaces within the novel can and cannot be mapped point to the specificity of a
novels form in terms of narrative. However, this limit opens up a different
understanding of how to interact with the text; by foregrounding space, digital
mapping allows one to see the importance of spatial context, that different
spaces allow the protagonist, David, to express different sexual identities and
practices. In refusing certain spaces, David rejects an identity he abhors in
favor of a personal narrative he thinks more viable.


Anna GREEN, PhD student
Department of English, Michigan State University
[email protected]

Sedentary City

A marked contrast to numerous narratives of Parisian flnerie, Mina Loys po-
em, Three Moments in Paris, resists the concretizing impulses of cartography.
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Two sites, Les Grands Magasins du Louvre and Caf du Nant, provide the po-
ems only clues to its temporal and spatial location. Mapping, however, reveals
these points as central locations where familiar narratives of Parisian wander-
ing intersect. The embeddedness of these places in the spatial relationality of
flneur experiences as well as the poems curious resistance to physical motion
as a form of narrative momentum suggest that Three Moments in Paris seeks
to provide an alternative narrative of urban experience. Resisting a narrative
linearity defined by motion, the poem instead provides moments of conver-
gence, in which womens bodies are rendered sedentary by tensions between
time and timelessness, roots and rootlessness. This narrative mode obviates
the entwined and gendered politics of the gaze and urban movement by con-
sidering a form of city experienced characterized by reception, rather than
employment of, the traveling gaze.

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Panel 5 Translating Narrative Theory

Parallel sessions IV, Room D

Convened by Sylvie PATRON, University of Paris Diderot-Paris 7

The proposed panel aims to address the theoretical, rather than strictly linguis-
tic or technical aspects of translation in the field of narrative theory. What does
it mean for a text in narrative theory to have to undergo the test of translation?
How might a reflective translation practice lead to a re-evaluation of narrative
theory? Texts in the humanities and social sciences, including narrative theory,
are distinct in that they are based on concepts (and arguments). Their transla-
tion thus essentially raises the problem of transmitting the concepts from one
language, and sometimes (cultural, historical, etc.) perilanguage, to another.
Thus the need for translators to be specialists in the discipline themselves and
to master the relevant conceptual and terminological systems, if possible just
as well as and perhaps, sometimes, better than the authors themselves. Three
translators and specialists of narrative theory will make up the panel: Bahar
Dervicemalolu, the Turkish translator of Manfred Jahn; Masahiro Iwamatsu,
the Japanese translator of Marie-Laure Ryan; and Sylvie Patron, the French
translator of Ann Banfield and S.-Y. Kuroda.


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Abstracts

Masahiro IWAMATSU, Professor
Graduate School of Language, Communication, and Culture, Kwansei Gakuin
University, Japan
[email protected]

Problems in Translating Literary Theory into Japanese

The primary aim of this presentation is to conduct a brief survey of a cultural
activity in Japan: translation of Occidental literary theory, especially narrative
theory, into Japanese. Theoretical approaches to verbal phenomena have a very
short history in Japan, where the interest of literary studies is principally anti-
quarian rather than systematic. Moreover, the Japanese language unified its
written and spoken forms only about 120 years ago, with important implica-
tions for contemporary literary criticism. The first half of the presentation will
be devoted to some interesting results of this academic situation in Japan. The
latter half describes an aspect of the current situation by drawing from prob-
lems encountered during and following my 2006 translation of Marie-Laure
Ryans Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory (1991).
Translating such texts into Japanese requires that the translator repeatedly
choose whether to search for literally equivalent terms or concepts, combine
existing Chinese characters as seems most appropriate, or transcribe a foreign
term phonetically into Japanese katakana syllabary. In the Japanese context,
each of these options may affect the nuance of the text in quite different ways.
Overall, the presentation examines the act of translation as it reflects on both
the historical context and the present state of humanistic scholarship in Japan.


Bahar DERVICEMALOLU, Assist. Prof. Dr.
Department of Turkish Education, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
[email protected]

The Problem of Translating Narratological Terminology into Turkish

My paper deals with the difficulties encountered in translating Manfred Jahns
online Narratology: A Guide to the Theory of Narrative into Turkish (An-
latbilim: Anlat Teorisi El Kitab, 2012). As narratology is not yet established in
Turkey, there are few specialized texts in the field, and a particular problem is
that we dont have any settled narratological terminology in the Turkish lan-
guage. In the first part of my paper, I will mention a number of books on narra-
tive theory translated into Turkish in order to show the different perspectives
and discrepancies in terms of translation strategies and terminology. In the
second and main part, I will confine myself to the terminological difficulties
encountered when translating narrative theory into Turkish and try to explain
how I dealt with these obstacles in my translation of Jahns guide to the theory
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of narrative, which provides both a remarkable introduction to the subject in
question and a rich source for terminology. Modern Turkish is not a well-
developed language when it comes to terminology, and as a Turcologist my
approach to translating narrative terminology into Turkish is mainly based on
the tradition and terminological system of Ottoman Turkish and rhetoric (bela-
gat).


Sylvie PATRON, Lecturer and Research Supervisor
Department of Literature, Arts, Cinema, University of Paris Diderot-Paris 7
[email protected]

Translating S.-Y. Kuroda: Past and Present

The thoughts presented in this paper are developed out of the translation into
French of six essays by S.-Y. Kuroda on narrative theory (to be exact, a new
edition of three existing translations and the translation of three essays not
previously published in French). It contains a section on translation criticism,
focusing essentially on the evolution of the reception of translations and on the
variations in denotation and connotation of certain terms from the late 1970s
to the current time. The paper also takes up terms which, as compared with
translations now current in the field, prove untranslatable for Kuroda. The
second section outlines some of the problems encountered while translating
the unpublished essays (the problem of difficult or even untranslatable
terms, preservation of traces of the argumentative context in which certain
terms or concepts originated, etc.), as well as the solutions found: ultimately, it
is up to the reading community to validate or invalidate the target text. In cer-
tain cases, which I will outline, an interpretative translation was chosen in place
of a neutral one to allow better reception in the current context. In general, the
paper aims to contribute to the history and epistemology of narrative theory as
a discipline, approached here from the angle of translation practices.

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Panel 6 Narrativity and Intermediality

Parallel sessions IV, Room G


Convened by Tobias HERMANS, Ghent University, Belgium

For the past several decades, narratology has increasingly embraced genres and
disciplines which traditionally were not regarded as domains of narrative study.
Especially prolific have been methodological exchanges that explore interac-
tions between different forms of (art) media: intermediality. Whether concen-
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trating on the combination of different medial forms (as in film or opera) or the
referential incorporation of one art medium into another (e.g., the musicaliza-
tion of fiction; cf. Wolf 1999, Nnning 2002, Rajewsky 2005), the communica-
tive processes and impulses that narrative theory has exposed, have allowed for
a more profound study of the interrelation between different media as well as
the modes of discourse and articulation intrinsic to them.
This panel seeks to demonstrate the variety of perspectives that the interplay
between narratology and intermediality has made possible. It will do so by
taking up the topic of (un)reliable narration, which has been well grounded
within traditional narratology, and by transposing it to the relation between
music and narrative. As such, the papers featured in this panel wish to display
the firm footing narrative theory has found within intermedial research. At the
same time, however, the panel aims to explore the wide and creative fields of
opportunity that lie ahead by presenting recent developments within the state
of art and showing a cross-section of the new methods and domains in narra-
tive research. Through dialogue with an international and interdisciplinary
public, it hopes to reveal the broad scale of diversity these interactions have
opened up.

Abstracts

Knut HOLTSTRTER, Dr. phil.
Research Institute for Music Theater Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany
[email protected]

When the Bard Lies: Remarks on Music from a Musicological and
Literary Theory Perspective

Musical narratology which focuses on semiotic structure maintains that music,
insofar as it is a language, is able to signify. It therefore often assumes that
there is a musical plot which can be read from the musical process. A narra-
tive thread (Nattiez) is implied by the compositional structure itself and can
therefore be analysed as such. When this plot-like structure is missing, accord-
ing to Nattiez, we cannot speak of a narrative. This linguistic approach has no
category for the fact that music can be a vehicle for irony or for lying.
Although music does not possess the double articulation of language (Levi-
Strauss, Tarasti), I maintain that music is able to lie. I will thus focus on the
instance that could be responsible for this: the narrator. I will show that music
is as independent of the diegetic coherence of time, space and plot as literature
is. Narratological musical analysis in this context would therefore not search
for a musical plot but examine the relation between author/composer mu-
sic/narrative and listener, based on the concept of narrator.



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Karl KATSCHTHALER, Dr.
Institute of German Studies, University of Debrecen, Hungary
[email protected]

Autobiographical authenticity in music? The question of the secret
vocal line in Alban Bergs Lyric Suite revisited in a narratological
perspective

Autobiography is one of the topics of narratology which will probably not come
to our mind first when we address the question of the narrativity in music. It
may therefore be striking that Constantin Floros put forth the notion of music
as autobiography when analysing the music of Alban Berg in terms of what he
calls semantic analysis. According to this method, musical semantemes re-
veal the works underlying meaning which, in Bergs case, is said to be autobio-
graphical.
In this paper, I will try to develop a critique of this kind of musical semantics
from a narratological point of view, questioning what is widely regarded as its
touchstone: the secret program of Bergs Lyric Suite and the secret vocal line
in its finale. Questions will be raised such as: What is autobiography? What acts
of narrative performativity occur at the level of the author? Can Bergs anno-
tated score for Hannah Fuchs (discovered by George Perle) be analysed as a
(pseudo-) perfomative narrative, establishing the fiction of merging production
with reception? The subject of autobiography also raises the question of au-
thenticity and authentification. Dealing with this topic in relation to the finale
of the Lyric Suite, Perles implication that Bergs version of the Largo desola-
to, with its additional vocal part, is the authentic version of the piece, sup-
pressed by its author, will be deconstructed.


Tobias HERMANS, PhD student
German Literature Department, Ghent University, Belgium
[email protected]

Putting Music into Words: Robert Schumann and the creation of the
Romantic critical narrative

Poeticized music criticism, as it emerged at the beginning of the 19
th
century,
has been the subject of constant academic debate: on the basis of the oft quot-
ed review of Beethovens fifth symphony, the rhetorical foregrounding of direct
sensory experiences in E.T.A. Hoffmanns Musikkritik is generally accredited
with the poeticization of the genre as a whole. Often overlooked in this context,
however, are the writings of Robert Schumann who, in his own Zeitschrift fr
Neue Musik, introduced a narrative model of Musikkritik which mediates the
critical message through a narrator and several characters (e.g., Eusebius and
Florestan).
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My paper will inquire into the relation between narrativity and critical language
in selected samples of Schumanns music criticism. In this regard, it will first of
all focus on the interplay between narration and the expression of opinion.
Furthermore, I will examine how Schumanns use of frame narrative ties in with
the poetics of aesthetics and criticism in Romanticism (such as Hoffmanns
Serapiontic principle), and explore the critics position as author and public
persona. It is not a coincidence that Schumann chose to mediate and narra-
tivize his music criticism through fictional characters. As such, I will comple-
ment the discussion on musical narratives from a textual perspective, seeking
to advance a more profound integration of literary and musicological methods.

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Panel 7 Metalepsis out of Bounds

Parallel sessions V, Room B

Convened by Saartje GOBYN, Ghent University

Since Genette coined the term metalepsis in his Narrative Discourse, the topic
has gradually developed from a minor remark into a central notion in narrato-
logical theories. Since then, various studies, out of different perspectives, have
been devoted to the subject, resulting in the development of a number of ty-
pologies. The phenomenon drew critical attention during the heyday of post-
modernist literature and has also contributed significantly to the establishment
and development of postclassical narratology. Over the past decade, several
scholars have stressed that metalepsis is not an exclusively literary device, but
can be found in almost every form of representation. With that knowledge,
different research projects have begun to focus on metalepsis in painting, mov-
ies and comics. More recently, theologians and historians have studied the
phenomenon (e.g., the conference Die Metalepse in antiken Diskursen held at
the University of Giessen in 2011).
This panel seeks to exchange information and knowledge about metalepsis,
approached from different research angles. The three papers are complimen-
tary to the extent that they either question the conceptualization of metalepsis,
examine its functioning or apply theoretical models to textual material. Given
these various perspectives, the panel hopes to elicit fruitful and interesting
discussions regarding the study of metalepsis.



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Abstracts


Liviu LUTAS, Postdoctoral researcher in French literature
Department of French Studies, Lund University, Sweden
[email protected]

Metalepsis and History The Example of Three Francophone Writers

In this paper, I will analyze the way in which metalepsis is used in three Fran-
cophone works of fiction dealing with the past. Indeed, it could seem inappro-
priate to use a device classified under the label of paradoxical narration by
some theorists (K. Meyer-Minnemann, S. Lang, N. Grabe) when dealing with
history. However, the frame-breaking nature of metalepsis (cf. Debra Malina)
allows for the possibility of bringing together two different worlds, something
that can be highly relevant when representing the past.
In the three works chosen, written by C. F. Ramuz, Patrick Chamoiseau and
Marie Ndiaye, narrative metalepsis is used in complex ways in order to enact
the fusion of different consciousnesses and thereby of different time periods.
The metalepses in the three works are also interesting to study when it comes
to the narrative boundaries which are crossed and the direction of the crossing
(ascendant, descendant or horizontal; cf. G. Prince, S. Klimek, S. Rabau), since
these are aspects that can have an important impact on the representation (or
sometimes non-representation) of the past. Moreover, the three works consti-
tute examples both of different genres and differing attitudes towards the past,
only one of them (Chamoiseau) aiming at historiography.


Saartje GOBYN, PhD student
Department of German Literature, Ghent University, Belgium
[email protected]

On the Metaleptic Structure of Gnter Grass Die Rttin

This paper explores the narrative phenomenon of metalepsis in Gnter Grass
Die Rttin. First place, I aim to conduct a formal description of metalepsis in
relation to texts in which no clear distinctions between the different diegetic
levels are to be found. In this respect, the technique of crossing the border
between the world in which one is representing and the represented world
itself is of particular interest in view of Die Rttins complex structures of nar-
rative threads. I will examine whether the existing classifications (Fludernik,
Klimek, Meyer-Minneman, etc.) are sufficient to analyze texts where no clear
distinctions between the different diegesis are to be found. If one assumes that
a clear set of diegetic borders, for example, is a condition for the identification
and categorization of the metalepsis, then Grass multilayered narrative poses
interesting challenges. Furthermore, my paper will analyze the functioning of
metalepsis. Do we have to interpret this confusion as a question concerning the
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nature of the highest reality the dritte Gattung as the text says in a text
where every narrative thread seems to represent a second-order reality? Among
others, it will be argued that, by underlining the autonomy of the narrative
material, metalepsis supports the oneiric structure of the text by blending
different time periods and different states of mind.


Kangru WU, Associate Professor
Comparative Literature, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
[email protected]; [email protected]

Coexistence and Participation: Metalepsis and Mise en Abyme in
Chinese Literature

As narrative devices of transition, metalepsis and mise en abyme appearing in
narrative texts may produce an effect of strangeness. In the strict sense, these
devices can be regarded as a kind of recursion, forcing readers to lose their
bearings.
As narrative techniques, metalepsis and mise en abyme abound in Chinese
literature from ancient times to the present and can be found in legends, short
stories, ghost stories, plays and novels. So far, however, Chinese scholars have
not devoted adequate attention or theoretical research to these devices or their
functions. Are metalepsis and mise en abyme produced by an intrusion of the
narrator? Or are they mere devices of transition?
This paper sketches an outline for several types of metalepsis and mise en
abyme and then goes on to discuss their functions in three Chinese works of
fiction: The Story of Stone; The Wall Painting; The Pavilion of Peony.

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Lectures by the students in the pre-conference doctoral seminar


Prior to the ENN conference, on March 27 and 28, twenty-four students took
part in a doctoral seminar conducted by Wolf Schmid and Per Krogh Hansen at
the Maison Suger (16, rue Suger 75005 Paris). Each morning was devoted to a
lecture (Eventfulness by Wolf Schmid; Unreliable Narration in a Transmedial
and Transgeneric Perspective by Per Krogh Hansen). In the afternoons, the
students, working in groups of six under the supervision of the two lecturers
and of Philippe Roussin, John Pier and Raphal Baroni, debated the papers to be
given at the conference.

Abstracts

Maximilian ALDERS, PhD student
Department of English Literature, University of Freiburg, Germany
[email protected] Parallel sessions V, seminar III, Room F

The Embodiment of Collective Minds

This essay, which derives from a larger project that compares literature and
historiography, maps the embodiment of collective minds for the purpose of
narratological analysis. Drawing on Braudels (1970) notion of geographical
determinism the necessary relation of all social phenomena to the physical
space they occupy I argue that collective minds are embodied in the sense
that they are correlated with a distinct material environment.
The essay follows a two-step procedure. I first explicate my approach in con-
ceptual terms, developing it abstractly and contextualizing it within pertinent
scholarship such as Carrards The Poetics of the New History (1992), Cohns The
Distinction of Fiction (1990) and Palmers Social Minds in the Novel (2010). The
purpose here is to work towards theorizing the embodiment of collective men-
tality. Second and more pragmatically, I compare passages from two case stud-
ies, Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter (1850) and Millers The New England Mind
(1939), according to the theoretical frame introduced in the first part. Both the
theoretical argument and the textual comparison are thus discipline-
transcending in scope and, in fact, deliberately geared to consider the interrela-
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Sebastian ARMBRUST, PhD student
Institute of Media and Communication Studies, Hamburg University, Germany
[email protected] Parallel sessions V, seminar III, Room F

Plot Models and Complex Television Seriality

Serial television drama has long been regarded as a simple and highly formulaic
storytelling genre. To accommodate flexible programming and distributed
screenwriting, many classical productions have generated countless self-
contained variations of specific story schemata. But over the last two decades, the
storytelling strategies in US prime-time television have undergone a dramatic
transformation. Recent productions have been discussed as Quality TV and Com-
plex TV in an enthusiastic discourse that highlights structural and thematic inno-
vation and the complexities arising from long-term character de-velopment and
cumulative world-building. In my paper, I explore how narratological plot models
can contribute to the analysis of these new storytelling strategies. While promi-
nent classical plot models have sought to reduce the logic of event sequences to
functionally closed, single-layer structures that seem more appropriate to tradi-
tional genre formulae, I propose to regard complex television productions such as
The Wire as polyvalent structures that re-quire a combination of classical and
post-classical approaches. From this integrative perspective, I hope to demon-
strate that the different types of narrative complexity found in contemporary
television drama can be understood as distinct strategies of combining particular
layers of temporal, logical, and thematic organization.


Violeta AVETISIAN, PhD student
College of Arts and Sciences, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
[email protected] Parallel sessions V, seminar IV, Room G

The Chronotope of Remembrance in Vladimir Nabokovs Mashenka
and in Grigol Robakidzes The Snakes Skin

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) and Grigol Robakidze (1880-1962) are major mod-
ernist writers of the 20
th
century. Both of them spent most of their lives in exile
and never managed to return home. Their literary works were strictly forbidden
in the Soviet Russia, becoming available only after the collapse of the Soviet Un-
ion in 1991.
To a great extent, emigration determined these writers lives and influenced their
world view. Nabokov and Robakidze always kept the image of their motherland in
their memories. In most of their works, they are the prototypes of their protago-
nists.
Both writers published their first novels in 1926. Nabokov wrote Mashenka while
he was living in Berlin. The idea of writing The Snakes Skin came to Robakidze
during his trip to Iran in 1917.
My paper is based on research carried out on the chronotope of remembrance,
one of the main chonotopes in the two novels. The main purpose of my study is
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to determine and compare the role of this chronotope in the narrative structure
of the novels.


Natalya BEKHTA, PhD student
Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, University of Gieen, Germany
[email protected] Parallel sessions II, seminar II, Room G

Emerging Narrative Situations: Towards a Definition of a We-narrative
Proper

Recent years have seen a considerable rise in interest in anti-mimetic fiction, so-
called unnatural narratives. One particular trend I shall discuss in this presenta-
tion concerns untypical strategies of narration, or, in other words, new narrative
situations. Since the end of the twentieth century, we have seen an increasing
number of second-person texts, of narratives in the plural and other experiments.
The Genettian choice between two grammatical forms (first or third person) no
longer seems to cover the gamut of the contemporary novel.
Literary evolution has caused a diversification in existing typologies of narrative
situations. At present, second-person texts have been theorised to a considerable
degree, but narration in the plural still remains a vague area. This is especially
obvious from bibliographies of we-narratives, where extremely diverse texts are
grouped under a single rubric. Defining these narratives is difficult due to a num-
ber of factors. In order to delimit a we-narrative proper, I propose combining the
existing structuralist and contextual approaches with the reversal of cen-
tral/peripheral relation between collective and individual agents. In this way, the
suggested definition of a we-narrative proper is based on the criteria put forward
by F.-K. Stanzel and can be considered as a diversification of the classical typolo-
gy of narrative situations.


Ayman E. M. GEEDALLAH, Instructor Assistant
Department of English, Omar Almkhtar-Tobruk University, Libya
[email protected] Parallel sessions II, seminar II, Room G

The Equilibrium between Author and Time with Special Reference
to Dickens Great Expectations

This paper is an inquiry into the connection between author time and story time.
It is an attempt to determine how author time, i.e. Charles Dickens, and story
time, i.e. Great Expectations, relate to one another. The main point will be to show
how the two times have an internal impact on the subjective reading of the au-
thor himself. It will be seen that the young age of the character in the narrative
has symbolic meaning for the writer himself. This can be studied by looking at
the recurrent beginnings of the story in some of Dickens novels and biographies
and at the way they reflect the early stage of the character and also by opposing
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the characters time to the authors personal experience. The study will seek to
show how the narrative can be reflected in the authors personal life. The similari-
ty of the two times will be central to the analysis in order to see in what ways
they are connected. The paper attempts to answer the question: How does the
story time come about?


Jan HORSTMANN, PhD student
Department of Language, Literature, Media I, Hamburg University, Germany
[email protected] Parallel sessions II, seminar I, Room F

Theatre Narratology

Theatre, in contrast to written drama, works verbally and (audio-)visually (as well
as olfactorily, hapticly and gustatorily) and also has a collective of authors with
more complex possibilities of narrating. A covert narrator (Chatman) is at work
when scenes are selected, arranged or presented. According to this, the shower
has as much narrating potential as the teller. A unique feature of theatrical com-
munication is what I call trialogue, resulting from the liveness of theatrical per-
formance: during a performance we always hear the (real) voices of the actors as
well as the voice of the narrating instance and that of the implied author, whereas
in narrative literature only dialogicity can be found.
Performativity, and therefore the concept of trialogicity, too, has an impact on
Wolf Schmids narration-communication-model, since the borders between the
different levels of communication are much more easily crossed; thus, metalep-
sis, for example, is much more common in theatre than in written texts. Conse-
quently, analysing theatre and performativity narratologically allows for a better
understanding of the way theatre tells its stories. The simultaneity of producing
and receiving in theatre is the reason why many academics tend to follow
Manfred Pfisters claim of a missing mediating communication system. Despite its
apparent immediateness, visual narrating demands as much critical distance
from us as narrating literature does.


Manja KRSCHNER, PhD student
Institute of English Studies, Kiel University, Germany
[email protected] Parallel sessions II, seminar I, Room F

The Fictionalization of History and Unreliable Narration in Contemporary
Historiographic Metafiction

In the wake of postmodernism, history as an academic discipline still tries to
retrieve the past to a certain extent, while literary studies denies the possibility of
such an undertaking. Postmodernist historiographic metafiction thus argues that
the boundary between the ontological worlds of fiction and fact should be abol-
ished. My research investigates in which ways three contemporary novels com-
ment on the claim that history is a narrative construction, supplementing the
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actual past. Hence, Adam Thorpes Hodd (2009), David Mitchells Cloud Atlas
(2004) and Margaret Drabbles The Red Dragon (2004) negotiate strategies that
fictionalize history. The three texts move beyond two postulates of postmodern-
ist literature. First, they re-establish a boundary between fictional and non-
fictional narratives about the historical past without denying the relevance of
either fictional storytelling or the discipline of history. Second, there is a struc-
tural analogy to the reading strategy which discredits the narrator as un-reliable
in order to explain textual discrepancies. My hypothesis is that unreliable narra-
tion remains an efficient reading strategy. Despite the postmodernist assertion
that unreliable narration loses its power to differentiate between more or less
reliable narrative instances, it maintains a heuristic function within my corpus.


Adam LIVELY, PhD student
Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK
[email protected] Parallel sessions II, seminar I, Room F

Narrative Symbolization: From Situated to Embedded Narrative

Cognitive narratology has been dominated by a representationalist view of nar-
rative signification: narratives represent storyworlds. But evidence from devel-
opmental psychology on the role of narrative in childrens social and cognitive
development suggests that the representationalist view is based on an overly
restrictive notion of narrativity. Narrative does not merely represent; it actively
creates meaning through the adoption of perspectives within the narrative and by
transformations of narratives, by repetition and shared attention, into objects
symbols, on which different views may simultaneously be taken. From early in our
development, narrative is situated. In fiction, this process of narrative symboli-
zation can be seen in the phenomenon of embedded narrative. Examples from
Day One of Boccaccios Decameron illustrate how embedded narrative initiates
processes of perspective-taking and symbol-formation that elude the representa-
tionalist approach. Both the situated quality of narrative in development and the
importance of embedding in literary narrative, it is argued, point to the inade-
quacy of a dyadic Saussurean model of narrative signification and the greater
appropriateness of a triadic Peircean model.


Margarida MCMURRY, PhD student
Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of
Oslo, Norway
[email protected] Parallel sessions V, seminar III, Room F

The Role of Assumptions in If on a Winters Night a Traveller

Assumptions are an important part of narrative communication, and yet they are
oftentimes excluded from textual analysis. Assumptions shape the creative choic-
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es of the author, the expectations of the reader and how author and reader relate
to each other.
In this paper I will propose a framework to study assumptions in a systematic
way, and how they influence the author-reader relationship in the particular and
well-known case of If on a Winters Night a Traveller.


Urania MILEVSKI, PhD student
DFG Research Training Group Dynamics of Space and Gender, University of
Kassel, Germany
[email protected] Parallel sessions V, seminar IV, Room G

From a sociological poetics of voice towards a sociological poetics of space

In Fictions of Authority. Woman Writers And Narrative Voice (1992), Lanser pre-
sented the sociological poetics of Bakhtin and Medvedev as a possible way of
connecting feminist and narratological implications for voice. Whereas space as
an element of narrative theory is a rather new field of investigation, research on
voice has been pursued for a long time. As Genette stated in Narrative Discourse
(1972/1980), narrative voice and narrated world are mutually constitutive. This
applies for narrative voice and space in particular.
In my paper I discuss the close connection between fictional voice and fictional
space in narrative. Ryan (Space 2012) stresses the importance of events relating
to space as changes of state that affect individuated existents, which are them-
selves bodies that both occupy space and are situated in space. With regard to
the definitions of narrative theory, I wish to introduce a sociological view on
space in narrative. Taking into account the entanglement between space, voice
and action (events), sociological theory offers analytical instruments that seek to
grasp space as constituted through a relational system of arranging places, living
beings (characters) and social goods.


Jannike Hegdal NILSSEN, Independent scholar
Nordic Literature, University of Oslo, Norway
[email protected] Parallel sessions II, seminar II, Room G

Possible Qualities of an Unreliable Narrator in both First-person and
Third-person Narration

In their article The Fifth Mode of Representation: Ambiguous Voices in Unreli-
able Third-Person Narration (Strange Voices in Narrative Fiction, 2011), Beh-
rendt and Hansen discuss unreliability in third-person narration by exploring
what they label ambiguous discourse: a fifth mode of representation on the
discursive level, the mode of ambiguity and unreliability resulting from the
convergence of free indirect discourse and character-(in)dependent discourse.
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In light of that article, this paper will investigate the ambiguity of free indirect
discourse in some seemingly paraleptic passages of a mainly character-narrated
novel, Linn Ullmanns Before You Sleep (1998). Adding to that the readers con-
stant confusion over whether we are dealing, throughout the novel, with the
voice of the acting I or the retrospective I leads to investigating the question
as to whether the expected distance and merging between the acting I and the
retrospective I actually pertains here. Behrendt and Hansen address the topic
of first-person narration in disguise, while my research will explore whether it
is possible to speak of a third-person narration in disguise. By addressing this
matter, the paper attempts to describe the qualities of an unreliable narrator in
both first-person and third-person narration.


Zsfia PL-LUKCS, PhD student
Doctoral School of Literary Studies, University of Pcs, Hungary
[email protected] Parallel sessions V, seminar IV, Room G

Verbal and Visual Narration of Tenebrae

Hans Holbeins painting, The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521) articu-
lates a significant moment in the relationship between Christ and God. We can
recognize a sensible and mental phenomenon in which the world becomes dark
and a deep hiatus appears in our visual perception and cognition.
This moment underlined in the picture seems to be the tenebrae. The artists
delusion is combined with the paintings connotation and the viewers delusion;
it suggests a modern aesthetic experience. From my point of view, the verbal
and visual narration of Holbeins painting articulates a relationship with phe-
nomenology. The meaning of transcendence and the concept of identity be-
comes problematic. The question of personal identity must be critically re-
viewed. In modern art the impact of this crisis has been shown by Francis Ba-
cons images: beyond the tradition mentioned above, it seems to be a distinc-
tion between the conceptions of the subject itself, the idea of God as subject
and object. There is an inner aesthetic and philosophical coherence between
these narrations. This raises a fundamental question: has Christ indeed over-
come the nothing when he killed himself? Or is this problem related to the
human subjects responsibility?


Sarah PARDON, PhD student
Department of Literary Studies, Ghent University, Belgium
[email protected] Parallel sessions II, seminar I, Room F

Narration and Experience in Historical Representations

In this contribution I discuss the possibility of a narratological methodology
suitable for the analysis of historical representations that can be both fictional
or factual. The starting point is that although these texts may make different
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referential claims to the past, they all share the ability to trigger a historical
experience. I argue that narratological concepts can be helpful to clarify how
these texts evoke a historical experience. The purpose is not to neutralize the
ontological status of the texts. The focus, rather, will be on the development of
a narratological toolset that can address any textual type of historical represen-
tation. In order to arrive at this toolset, I bring together two theorists for whom
the notion of experience is quintessential. The first is Frank Ankersmit, who
argues that historical experience can give the historian authentic and direct
access to the past. The second is Monika Fludernik, for whom narratives are
fundamentally defined by their capacity to provide the reader with an anthro-
pomorphic experience. By comparing their findings, I arrive at a theoretical
basis that addresses both the topic of a pre-linguistic historical experience and
the narrative setup of a text.


Virginia PIGNAGNOLI, PhD student
Linguistics, Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca Foscari University of Venice, Italy
[email protected] Parallel sessions II, seminar II, Room G

Interference around the Threshold: The Contemporary Challenge to
(Para)Textual Boundaries

The beginning of the twenty-first century has witnessed the rise of literary
experimentations involving the material presence of the book. My research fo-
cuses on how contemporary texts are renegotiating their (para)textual bounda-
ries through typographical variations, unconventional layouts, and the integra-
tion of multiple semiotic modes, such as text and images. I analyze a selection
of narratives with different degrees of commitment toward multimodality and
media multiplicity. These various levels are identified through several resisting
or embracing features. Texts such as Tree of Codes (2010) by Jonathan Safran
Foer, A Visit From the Goon Squad (2010) by Jennifer Egan, and The Ecstasy of
Influence (2011) by Jonathan Lethem question and challeng Grard Genettes
spatial distinction between peritext and epitext. Thus, in this paper, I will sug-
gest a revision to the concept of paratext as conceived by Genette in the 1980s.
The narrative communication of contemporary literature, born in the New Me-
dia ecology, works on a twofold dialogic level that blurs the boundaries of what
is outside and what is inside (or on) the threshold of a text.


Caroline PIRLET, PhD student
Department of English, University of Gieen, Germany
[email protected] Parallel sessions II, seminar II, Room G

Many a Tell-Tale Heart: Revealing Emotions and the Construction
of Narrativity

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In his recent book Affective Narratology: The Emotional Structures of Stories
(2011), Patrick Colm Hogan argues that affective science provides a powerful
explanatory framework for narrative organization in general. Under the aegis of
the affective turn, narratologists are quick to recognize the potential of such
junctures, yet few actually pursue research agendas centered on emotion.
In light of these developments, this paper focuses in broad terms on the nexus
between reader emotion and narrativity. Based on how emotions function in
real life, what are some of the ways in which being moved assist readers in
their construction of the basic story constituents? Using insights from cognitive
and (to borrow Hogans term) affective narratology, psychology and neurosci-
ence, I argue that the process of narrativization is pervaded and actively shaped
by our emotions. The subsequent analysis of Edgar Allan Poes short story The
Tell-Tale Heart (1834) addresses the issue of how emotions appear on the
discourse and story levels to reveal how readers affective responses are central
to narrative dynamics and frequently weigh in on the readers sense of tellabil-
ity and narrativity.


Lena SCHCH, PhD student
Department of Modern German Literature, Hamburg University, Germany
[email protected] Parallel sessions V, seminar IV, Room G

Causal ascription in contemporary song lyrics

Contemporary song lyrics of pop, rock, and similar genres often omit not only
statements of place and time but also causal links such as subordinating con-
junctions. Although these links are sometimes not visible on the surface of the
text material, the recipient can nonetheless ascribe connections to states of
changes on the basis of other content signals. It appears that these connections
often follow the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy: in most of the cases, recipi-
ents seem to stick by the reading convention that states of change that come
after one another must be read in a causal connection in order to make sense.
In a computer-based approach with the help of the software CATMA resp. CLA
(Computer Aided Textual Markup and Analysis, www.catma.de), this convention
is put to the test. By manually tagging categories such as states of change, dif-
ferent kinds of textual connections, dates and places (where they appear) in a
text corpus and checking on their distribution and correlations, one can find
out how, in short lyric texts, causality and coherence the main factors of the
narrativity in texts are established.

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Golnaz SHAMS, PhD student
English Department, University of Freiburg, Germany
[email protected] Parallel sessions V, seminar III, Room F

The Application of the Thought-Action Continuum in the Consciousness
Construction Procedure in Shaw, Wilde and Ibsens Plays

In his seminal work Fictional Minds, Alan Palmer elaborates on the concept of
consciousness construction and intermental thought in novels. He prefers to
analyze the more behaviorist narratives in which the readers seem to be ex-
posed to the words and action of the characters rather than the characters
thought and feelings.
In my paper I aim to illustrate that this type of objective behaviorist narrative
Palmer describes comes very close to the description of drama. This genre,
however, in its written form, has been rather neglected in most of the trends of
narrative studies. Using selections from George Bernard Shaws, Oscar Wildes
and Henrik Ibsens plays, I would like to demonstrate how one could achieve a
richer reading and a different perspective in the construction of the characters
of these plays. This is done by applying, like Palmer, the key cognitive frame of
continuing consciousness of narrative agents and the closely related thought-
action continuum sub-frame. Each of these playwrights oscillates in his style of
character construction between the two poles of the thought-action continuum,
simultaneously moving from the less behaviorist introductory passages to the
almost purely behaviorist embedded and doubly embedded narratives of the
characters in action.


Klaus-Peter SPEIDEL, PhD student
Department of Philosophy, University of Paris Sorbonne-Paris 4
[email protected] Parallel sessions V, seminar III, Room F

But it does tell! Working towards a new consensus on the narra-
tive picture

While they are most notorious for their disagreements concerning art, Plato and
Aristotle seem to have agreed on the fact that single pictures (ssps) can tell
stories. Horaces Ars Poetica confirmed their view, and it can be said to have
been dominant for more than 2000 years. The consensus was lost in the 18
th

century when G. E. Lessings Laocon linked the fundamental distinction be-
tween the arts of space (e.g., painting) and the arts of time (e.g., poetry) to the
difference between describing and telling. While most art historians still seem to
believe that applying the predicate narrative to at least certain ssps (most not-
ably history paintings) does not stand in any need of justification, many of
todays narratologists, including those who are interested in the narrative po-
tential of pictures, maintain that no picture can, sensu stricto, tell a story. For
quite opposite reasons, both attitudes have prevented the development of a
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decent set of tools for analysis of the narrative structure of ssps. The main two
reasons that lead narratologists to refuse ssps the status of narratives are that
pictures only show and do not tell and that ssps cannot as opposed to movies
and picture sequences provide for the temporal structure necessary for story-
telling. In my talk I will try to show what is wrong with each of these reasons.


David STROMBERG, PhD student
Department of English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
[email protected] Parallel sessions II, seminar I, Room F

The Artistic Gesture: In Search of the Muteness of Painting in Literature

This paper takes as its springboard Merleau-Pontys Indirect Language and the
Voices of Silence, conceptualizing the literary act within a wider artistic con-
text. A central part of this conceptualization is the notion of gesture, in which
the literary act, like the painting act, is crystalized by a material form in this
case a fictional narrative text at the same time as it stands as a trace pointing
beyond itself to that living being from which it originated. In this sense, a nar-
rative text, like a painting, functions like a field through which the conscious-
ness of the writer and reader meet and communicate indirectly. Narrative is
here treated not as a strict linguistic or conceptual structure but rather a medi-
um, like oil paint, with which the artist paints one or another picture. This
literary communication, appearing in the narrative medium, is considered to
be indirect, double-natured, and comprising both aesthetic and ethical axiologi-
cal horizons an artistic act that can challenge norms while reaffirming values.
Taking into account Bakhtin's philosophy of the act, the Prague School notion
of semantic gesture, as well as Grard Genettes later writings on the architext
and aesthetic relation, this paper aims to outline an approach that considers
literature from the perspective of an aesthetic practice.


Eva Sabine WAGNER, PhD student
Theory and Methodology of Text Studies and their History, University of Osna-
brck, Germany
[email protected] Parallel sessions II, seminar II, Room G

Narrative Projection

In his article Coherence (Handbook of Narratology, 2009), Michael Toolan
criticizes the wide-spread tendency in narratology to equate narrativity with
narrative cohesion as an overt textual quality. As literary narratives often
convey elliptical or incongruous information, readers engage in interpretive
cognitive activities, such as inferring or recontextualizing, in order to construct
a coherent narrative whole. With this in mind, Toolan argues that narrativity
depends on implicit coherence rather than on explicit cohesion.
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This paper combines Toolans ideas about implied, coherence-oriented narrativ-
ity with poetological multicoding theories of lyric poetry in the tradition of
Jakobsons projection principle as well as with Turner/Fauconniers cognitive
theory of blending, introducing a hitherto unperceived narrative technique
which might be termed narrative projection. This term denotes a textually as
well as cognitively determined process whereby at least two schemata pertain-
ing to the same narrative paradigm of structure overlap and blend in the same
textual syntagm. The present paper will exemplify this narrative technique,
which brings about an increase in structure and hence in literariness, by explor-
ing one of its subtypes, namely projection arising from the narrative paradigm
of focalization as it occurs in Choderlos de Laclos epistolary novel The Dan-
gerous Liaisons (1782).


Angela WHALE, PhD student
Department of British Studies, University of Konstanz, Germany
[email protected] Parallel sessions V, seminar IV, Room G

Unreliable, Transmedial Narrators

In his recent article Necessarily a narrator or narrator if necessary: A short
note on a long subject (JLS, 2011), Uri Margolin presents two possible solu-
tions to the debate on the necessity of the narrator.
Drawing on his suggestion that narrators be examined in pertinent texts, this
paper explores the transmedial employment of existing cultural characters as
narrator. Simply defined as a communicative role, the narrator mediates the
readers experience; more complexly, the narrator is the occupant of the inner-
textual speech position responsible for the narrative and is formed through
metonymic transfer and anthropomorphism. I theorise that the inner-textual
speech position carries a measure of authority which imbues any character that
inhabits this position with additional authority, despite unnaturalness or unre-
liability. Using Pauline Melvilles Baron Samedi, in Eating Air, and Markus Zu-
saks rendition of Death, in The Book Thief, this paper will analyse overt, highly
individuated, unreliable/unnatural narrators that have been adapted from exist-
ing narratives and which use the weight of inherent authority to narrate the
unnarratable subjects of the Holocaust and Terrorist attacks.

NB: Three students are not lecturing in the seminar groups: Saartje Gobyn (see
Panel 7); Huaiyo Luo (Group 10); Franco Pianzola (Workshop Calame).
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Regular session speakers

Jan ALBER, PD Dr.
English Department, University of Freiburg, Germany
[email protected] Parallel session IV.23, Room H

The Representation of Character Interiority in Film

For decades, film theorists and narratologists have claimed that a film cannot
convey a characters thoughts, feelings, and intentions in the way fictional
literature can. This paper seeks to falsify this claim by developing a taxonomy
of the various ways in which films may depict character interiority. First, the
paper looks at the external simulation of internal states through facial expres-
sions, bodily positions, or the association of a figure with a different entity.
Second, it addresses more immediate ways in which movies can render the
minds of their characters. For example, a film may convey inner lives through
interior monologues on the auditory level, while in other cases we are present-
ed with enacted mindscreens that visualize thoughts, feelings, or memories.
Third, mental projections and mental metalepsis are discussed, i.e. instances of
cinematic discourse that resemble passages of free indirect discourse in prose
because they are also dual-voiced: in such cases, the camera does not simply
give us the vision of a character and his or her world; rather, it fuses together
two different visions.


Emily R. ANDERSON, Associate Professor
Department of English, Knox College, Illinois
[email protected] Parallel session IV.23, Room H

Sin City and Style: Toward a Transmedial Approach to Discourse

Robert Rodriguez claims that his Sin City translates Frank Millers graphic
narratives, its source texts, directly to the screen. Surprisingly, however, Ro-
driguezs film includes almost constant references to film noir, to film produc-
tion, and to cinematic conventions conventions Rodriguez either adheres to
or throws into relief. But this overt remediation of Millers narrative actually
mirrors Millers own remediation of early noir fiction. Noir, in Rodriguezs
hands, becomes more than a style or a story that might appear in various
forms. It is a discourse that consists of a particular relationship between a
texts style and its structure. This discourse thus depends upon style, but
style understood to be the particular way in which the signs will obtain in the
context of a medium and its conventions. And if we can define style in this way,
we can better understand the relationship between discourse and the material
medium in which it presents. This analysis demonstrates the importance, when
considering style and discourse, of investigating medium-specific methods of
signification, as what a sign means depends on what the medium is capable
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of. Particularly at this moment, as investigations of narrative tend toward the
cognitive processes and contextual elements involved in its reception, we would
do well to bear in mind the relationships among medium, style, and whatever
histories and conventions come with them that make up discourse, as these
relationships constitute the real process of signification.


Greger ANDERSSON, Professor
Department of Comparative Literature, University of rebro, Sweden
[email protected] Parallel session III.13, Room D

Narratology as Theory and as a Method of Text Analysis

The paper takes its starting point in the question: Why is narratology generally
regarded as a stable method of text analysis when the theory, according to
many narratologists, is currently revised due to the narrative turn and to new
theoretical insights, a consequence of which would be that there is not one
narratology, but several different narratologies? I will suggest two origins of
this situation. Firstly, certain distinctions and core concepts from classical
narratology have not been challenged by post-classical narratologies. Secondly,
narratology responds to a felt need for scientific methods that can be taught
and applied in the study of different objects regarded as narrative. In my
paper, I challenge both these suggested positions. I call into question a certain
use of narratology as a method of text analysis. I also argue that if more radical
revisions of narrative theory were accepted, this would have serious conse-
quences for narratology as such a method. Finally, I discuss how a method of
text analysis based on these considerations could be apprehended.


Corinne BENAND-LEGRAND, Doctorante en anthropologie
CRAL / EHESS, Paris
[email protected] Parallel session I.6, Room H

la rencontre de lle au cinma Dialogue entre la narratologie et
le 7
e
art

Limage de lle au cinma apparat et se dveloppe au-del des contours for-
mels de linsularit : lle merge de la trame narrative comme elle dborde des
limites gographiques. Lle cinmatographique est un espace-temps mta-
phorique o se rvlent tous les possibles des relations complexes de lHomme
la Nature. Lle au cinma fait sens.
Dans la perspective des travaux de Marc Ferro, on considre les films comme
produits, tmoins et agents de lHistoire . Notre dmarche consiste en une
dynamique dinvestigation partir dun vaste corpus de films, une hypothse
cinma dirait Alain Bergala, la rencontre des penses-images du cin-
ma , selon Jean Epstein.
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Cette mthode de narratologie passe par les fondamentaux dune lecture fil-
mique classique puis par une analyse fine et transversale grce une grille de
lecture plusieurs niveaux dobservation, descriptif et symbolique. Pour cela,
on opre une dialectique permanente entre les hors-champs du film et les rele-
vs de la prsence de lle lcran afin de dcrypter les reprsentations cultu-
relles et idologiques en jeu.
Notre narratologie filmique via le prisme de lle interroge les questions soci-
tales contemporaines et propose un autre regard sur les uvres des cinastes.


Nora BERNING, PhD student
International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, University of Gieen,
Germany
[email protected] Parallel session IV.20, Room C

Critical Ethical Narratology as Emerging Vector and the Poethics of
Mark Bowdens Hypertext Blackhawk Down

Taking my cue from Genette, who argued that narratology has confined itself a
little too blindly to the study of fictional narrative, I claim that the most ur-
gent need in the context of a Critical Ethical Narratology (CEN) is to find a way
of talking about the formal properties of hypertext narratives and to combine
this discussion with a consideration of their ideological and ethical implica-
tions.
In order to make sense of hypertexts as a genre that is heavily involved in the
representation, construction and dissemination of ethical values, it is necessary
to scrutinize the ways in which authors thematize, problematize, foreground
and/or background specific ethical values in their texts and reconfigure narra-
tivity on the Internet. Far from providing easy answers to age-old questions
about fact and fiction, ethics and aesthetics, truth and non-truth, Mark Bow-
dens hypertext Blackhawk Down (1997) is based on a double-decker struc-
ture of narrative and cultural self-reflexivity. My analysis of the poethics of
Blackhawk Down preceded by a theoretical mapping of CEN as an emerging
vector of narratology promises to give insights into the ethical and epistemo-
logical functions of computer-mediated communication.



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Adriana BONTEA, Senior Lecturer in French
Pembroke College, Oxford / Senior Research Fellow, CNRS-EHESS, Paris
[email protected] Parallel session I.1, Room A

Narratives as Figures of Thought

Starting from Merleau-Ponty and Benjamins readings of Stendhal, Proust, Goe-
the, Leskov and Kafka, this paper focuses on the appropriation of narratives for
the purpose of devising new protocols of rationality beyond the usual modes of
categorising experience. While the emergence and development of early narra-
tive theories were informed by linguistics and were centred on the grammar of
the verb and of the pronoun as well as on eccentric syntactical constructions,
emphasising mainly the wide range of discursive procedures assumed by litera-
ture in devising temporality, Merleau-Pontys essay The Indirect Language and
the Voices of Silence and Benjamins constant reworking of the concept of
Denkbild, were aimed at recuperating narratives for the benefit of a revision of
both the philosophical conceptualisation and its expression on the model of
visual arts. By tracing the assimilation of some narrative modes to the expres-
sive means of painting and graphic art, this paper maps out several possibilities
for a diversification of current trends in narratology in the light of modern art
(Ensor and Klee, in particular) with the view to bridge the gap between discur-
sive and non-discursive forms. For this purpose the main concern would be
here to rethink the temporal structure of narratives as a mental space of repre-
sentation on which temporality achieves a visibility equivalent to that of visual
art.


Ioanna BOURA, Dr.
Department of French Language and Literature, Aristotle University of Thessa-
loniki, Greece
[email protected] Parallel session III.11, Room B

The Dialogic Perspective of Narratology

Approaching narratology from the angle of dialogism and the Great time
introduces the possibility of dialogue between the various narrative theories as
well as the extension of the field of study not only to all literary genres, but to
other disciplines, too. Adopting Bakhtins theory, this paper illustrates that
even the divergent points between narrative theories can help us elaborate on
certain aspects of the study and reveal latent categories. Diversification in this
case does not imply that narratology has not entered a phase of consolidation.
From a dialogic viewpoint, having stabilized its own rules, narratology is liber-
ated from established ways of study and acquires the freedom to enter into
conversation with other literary theories relative not only to narrative theories
but, at first sight irreconcilable, as well. The dialogue between narratology and
reception theory can answer many questions regarding the narrators power
while the interaction between narratology and sociology investigates the pro-
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found effect of the socially-determined function of the text on internal struc-
tures. Finally, this research attempts to demonstrate how the dialogic perspec-
tive of narratology contributes to the study of new narrative genres embracing
a diverse range of scientific fields.


Matthias BRTSCH, Dr.
Film Studies Department, University of Zurich, Switzerland
[email protected] Parallel session I.1, Room A

How to Measure Narrativity? Notes on Some Problems with
Comparing Degrees of Narrativity Within and Across Media

Besides analysing structural principles of narrative works, narratologists have
repeatedly tried to grasp the essential characteristics of narration, either by
sketching prototypes of it or by defining its basic elements. Their methods in-
clude distinguishing narrative from non-narrative text types and postulating
varying degrees of narrativity. The growing trend within narratology to cover
different kinds of media has in recent years again has raised the question of
how to define, demarcate and qualify narration. In intermedial comparisons
conducted by literary narratologists, film and drama are sometimes denied
narrativity altogether (Stanzel, Genette), sometimes granted to it to some de-
gree (Wolf, Schmid), but only rarely granted it entirely. The main reasons given
are their supposed lack or lesser degree of mediacy and explicitness in convey-
ing a narrative syntax, causality and teleology.
I will argue that concerning narrative mediation, there is no fundamental dif-
ference between literature, film and drama, which is why it seems wrong to
posit a priori a decreasing degree of narrativity with respect to these media.
The same holds true for the following comparisons: 1) narratives displaying a
high versus a small number of actions and events; 2) narratives focusing on
outer versus inner conflict; 3) narratives containing many versus few descrip-
tive and self-reflexive passages; 4) narratives that appear to be coherent versus
those that appear to be incoherent.


Olivier CARA, Lecturer
Institut Universitaire de Technologie (Evry) / CRAL (CNRS), Paris
[email protected] Parallel session II.9, Room H

One step backwards: Plot as a common ground between
contemplative and interactive fictions

Fieldwork in the production and reception of interactive fictions reveals a para-
dox: everybody uses the narratologists toolbox, but nobody wants to tell or be
told stories. The interactive experience is rather described as a quest, an inves-
tigation, a negotiation, etc.
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What these forms of experience share with storytelling lies upstream in the
creative process. Moving one step backwards, scholars can study plot before
narrative. By doing so, they can further the diversification of narratology and
at the same time consolidate contemplative and interactive fictions. Novels and
videogames can be built on similar plot structures, but with specific features:
exposition / complication / resolution in a novel; instructions / challenge /
evaluation in a game.
Moreover, plot does not imply a top-down conception of communication. Narra-
tor / narratee models can be replaced by intrigant / intriguee or riddler / rid-
dlee patterns, but it is also interesting to see plot as a shared, author-free,
object. Thus, interactivity is not merely a choice between existing storylines,
but a co-construction of fictional events on a stage (improvisational theater),
around a table (tabletop RPGs), in a real setting (live action RPGs) or online
(MUDs, MMORPGs). These plot-based events are tellable, but seldom told.


Carla CARIBONI KILLANDER, Docent in French Literature
Department of French Studies, Lund University, Sweden
[email protected]

Liviu LUTAS, Postdoctoral researcher in French Literature
Department of French Studies, Lund University, Sweden
[email protected] Parallel session I.6, Room H

Cinematic Ekphrasis and its Narrative Implications

In recent years, the classical figure of ekphrasis has proved to be a very produc-
tive concept, especially in the field of intermedial studies. Theorists such as
J.A.W. Heffernan, W.J.T. Mitchell, M. Krieger and C. Clver have contributed to
the definition of ekphrasis, progressively enlarging its borders beyond the
image-word relation. However, in Clvers definition of ekphrasis as the verbal-
ization of a real or fictitious text composed in a non-verbal sign system, the
focus remains on the verbal nature of the target medium. Following S. Bruhn, L.
Sager Eidt and A. Peth, we aim at questioning this limitation by showing that
the concept of ekphrasis is critically viable, even when the target is not verbal.
Our examples will be cases of cinematic ekphrasis, where energeia and repur-
posing, two crucial aspects of ekphrasis, both with narrative implications, are
achieved by other means than language alone. By doing this, we join the post-
classical narratological discourse and its increased interest in the question of
narrative in non-verbal forms.



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Silvia CHIRIL, PhD student
Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin
[email protected] Parallel session V.25, Room E

Unnatural Storyworlds, Broken Narratives, Fluid Characters in Toni
Morrisons Novels

While natural narratology relies on forms of representation derived from real-
world phenomena and knowledge, the unnatural allows for transgressions of
narrative dimensions, disruptions or temporal order or causality, impossible
storyworlds or narrators, etc. (Alber, Unnatural Narratology 2011). New forms
of narrative draw on a different cognitive repertoire and call for different inter-
pretive strategies (Nielsen ibidem).
This paper argues that in Toni Morrisons novels the recurrence of paradox as a
figure of simultaneous opposition and complementariness or contradiction and
coherence is closely connected with the figure of the double, which sometimes
emerges in uncanny scenarios through what can be considered fluid or liminal
characters and/or voices (accompanied by other unnatural narrative elements).
The figure of the double shapes patterns of creative ambivalence or games of
specularity by means of twinned characters engaged in an adventure out of
the confines of selfdom into extended possibilities of existence. In some cases,
the doppelgnger is represented through borderline characters arising from a
meeting point of intradiegetic events, narrative presence and mere projection
or representation of an imaginary that often reflects trauma (e.g., Beloved or L.
in the novel Love). Beloved offers the most significant representation of the
double as a character pertaining to the unnatural in a narrative scenario in
which the return of the repressed has not only a personal but also a collective
scope on the background of African American traumatic experience.


Mustafa Zeki IRAKLI, Assistant Professor Dr
Department of Western Languages and Literature, Karadeniz Technical Univer-
sity, Trabzon, Turkey
[email protected]
[email protected]
Parallel session II.8, Room C

Diverse Narrative Concomitants in Elif Shafaks Honour

Elif Shafaks Honour can be read within the classical and postclassical narrato-
logical frameworks bearing implications for both consolidation and diversifica-
tion. Shafaks Honour presents the reader with a powerful, brilliant and moving
account of murder, love and familial saga. Thus, various narratological glimp-
ses can be considered in Shafaks novel since diverse yet interwoven psycho-
logical, ethnological and gender issues are raised through different narrative
fragments. The female narrative voice, either in the fashion of first-person or,
ostensibly, third-person attempts to tell the story of a Kurdish woman victim-
ized by the act of honour killing. This paper argues that narrative fragments in
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Shafaks novel are like concomitants mixed and twisted so as to reconstruct the
forgotten (or hitherto ignored) story of man (brother) and woman (mother). The
unreliable (?) narrator and narrative fragments attempt to make up the missing
pieces of the story and deal with what is regarded as false narrative(s).


Paul DAWSON, Dr
School of the Arts and Media, University of New South Wales, Australia
[email protected] Parallel session IV.18, Room A

How Many Turns Does it Take to Change a Discipline? Narratology
and the Interdisciplinary Rhetoric of the Narrative Turn

Out of the epistemological scepticism towards grand narratives fostered by
postmodernism, there has emerged an interdisciplinary consensus that story-
telling is our most important means for making sense of experience. Rather
than accepting narrative as a self-evident phenomenon of human cognition, this
paper will interrogate the interdisciplinary rhetoric of what has become known
as the narrative turn in the humanities and social sciences. It will compare the
methodological problems which gave rise to the study of narrative in different
disciplines and ask whether these problems can meaningfully be addressed by
the broader narratological enterprise which takes narrativity as its object of
study. By investigating the tension between centrifugal and centripetal impuls-
es in narrative theory, this paper will demonstrate how the concept of a narra-
tive turn itself is used to construct stories about the nature and direction of
interdisciplinary research in the modern university.


Fiona DOLOUGHAN, Dr.
The New University, UK
[email protected] Parallel session V.26, Room H

New wor(l)d orders: The geosemiotics of narrative text

While reference to post-classical narratology can be seen to encapsulate the
broadening remit of narrative studies today, in terms of approach as well as of
disciplinary and contextual framing (Herman and Vervaeck 2005), what it per-
haps fails to capture sufficiently is the significance of particular narrative loca-
tions. By this, I mean to refer to a number of inter-related matters and point to
an arguably changing narrative landscape. For if we accept that the affordan-
ces and the organization of the screen are coming to (re)shape the organization
of the page (Kress 2003) and that reading paths cannot be taken for granted
across modes and media, nor indeed across cultures, it becomes clear that
narrative location is important not just in relation to that of the producer but
also in respect of the consumer/co-constructor of narratives.
Following Scollon and Scollons (2003) three principles of geosemiotics (indexi-
cality, dialogicality and selection) and in the light of a critical reading and ex-
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tension of Bakhtins notion of speech genres (Bakhtin 2007), I wish to propose a
reading of selected narrative texts that highlights the importance of location
(cultural, social, linguistic, disciplinary) in the construction and direction of
narrative meaning.


Sebastian DOMSCH, Prof. Dr.
Institute for English and American Studies, University of Greifswald, Germany
[email protected] Parallel session II.7, Room B

Narrative and Probability

This paper puts forth probability as a concept that can unify or consolidate
several diverging ideas and questions about narrative. So far, probability has
been gravely under-researched in narratological studies despite the fact that it
is crucially located at the intersection of theories of narrative genres and
modes, investigations into storyworlds as possible worlds, cognitive and socio-
logical approaches to narrative, and even questions of narrative ethics. Proba-
bility here refers to the judgement of a narratives reader about existents and
events in a storyworld, a judgement based on the readers understanding of the
actual world. That is, the reader judges with what probability an existent or an
event that is presented as a given in a narrative could exist in his actual world.
A proper understanding of how this judgement is created therefore needs to be
taken into account in cognitive theories as well as in those derived from possi-
ble worlds theory. This relative value (implied in more commonly used terms
like verisimilitude, plausibility, credibility, truth, realistic, authentic, the fantas-
tic) is decisive in our engagement with the borders between fictional and factu-
al discourse as well as in those between realist and fantastic modes of narra-
tive. In addition, theorizing probability as a narratological concept would help
to further clarify the historical role that risk (and risk assessment) and assur-
ance have played in the development of (realist) narrative that gradually replac-
es the divine agency of romance with necessity as basis for causation. Probabil-
ity is at the core of readers evaluation of narrative and is the link between the
cognitive construction of a storyworld, its aesthetics and its ethical assessment.


Inna DRACH
Institute for Philology and History, Russian State University for the Humanities,
Moscow, Russia
[email protected] Parallel session I.6, Room H

The Nature of Literary Montage and the Difference between
Cinematic and Montage Novels

Cinematic novel and montage novel are not synonymous terms. Montage
appears to be a confusing concept because it is a basic narrative device in a
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cinematic novel. The fact that some novels are labeled as both genres (e.g., Dos
Passos U.S.A. trilogy) further complicates things. The paper shows the differ-
ence between the genres by exploring the nature of literary montage.
In the works of the early Russian film theorists, montage was a means of creat-
ing a new aesthetic whole. When the term was later applied to various kinds of
art, including literature, it took on connotations of disintegration and eclecti-
cism. What K. Komar calls shifts in social continuity in the early 20
th
century
triggered the use of a fragmentary montage technique in literature. This is why
H. Kiesel describes montage in Dblins Berlin Alexanderplatz as philosophical
and not cinematic.
Thus, we suppose that literary montage has a dual nature: it may resemble or
imitate cinematic montage or it may be a specifically literary technique. A cin-
ematic novel is characterized by its movie-like montage, while a montage novel
is distinguished by its non-narrative, fragmentary montage technique and the
authors strategy of structuring the narrative fabric, thus creating narrativity.


Divya DWIVEDI, Assistant Professor
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology,
Delhi, India
[email protected] Parallel session V.25, Room E

Time and Unnatural Narratology: A Study in Slowness

This paper defines unnatural narratology as a new narrative theory rather than
as a set either of narratives or of qualities found in narratives. It is an unnatu-
ral narrative theory in contradistinction to natural narratology (Fludernik
1996): it does not treat natural narratives as the basis of narratology. Times
relation to narrative the time of narrative is fundamental to my account of
unnatural narratology.
This is elaborated here through Milan Kunderas trilogy of oblivion. In Slowness,
for example, a temporal feeling is both the theme of the narrative, its device,
and an experience of time enclosed by the quickness with which the narrative
concludes. In The Art of the Novel, Kundera explains his narratives as born
from and built around theme-words. Then, the temporality of a word rather
than an event is the matter of Slowness in which we find the physical formula:
the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory.
What happens, narratologically speaking, to time in such a narrative? Here, I
refer to the analysis of time as tension found in Herders Shakespeare: if you
are able to create a world that cannot but exist in the categories of space and
time, behold, your measure of space and duration is within you. I explore how
a narratological fundament time is made the matter, form, theme and tech-
nique in a narrative, arguing that unnatural narratology as defined above is
capable of this demonstration.



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Bohumil FOT, Dr.
Institute of Czech Literature, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Pra-
gue
[email protected] Parallel session II.8, Room C

Literary Narratives as Constituents of Political Worlds: The Case of
Milan Kundera

Narratives, from their beginnings, have served as important tools for modeling
the human world: tragedies introduced the will of the Gods to their watchers,
travelogues uncovered the unknown world in front of their readers eyes, realist
novels taught their favourers about contemporary social theories. In addition,
narratives, fictional or not, can also carry important information about (distant)
political structures and contribute to their understanding.
The aim of my talk is to focus on the situation which emerged after the intro-
duction of two of Milan Kunderas famous novels, The Joke and The Unbearable
Lightness of Being, to the western world. Inspite of the authors claim that both
novels are primarily love stories which must not be politicized, both provoked a
strong reaction from their readers and reviewers based on a pre-sumption that
they represent reliable sources of information as to what was happening behind
the Iron Curtain. In my talk, I examine both the novels and their potential to
construct a political reality, as well as the ways in which the reception of the
novels contributed to the understanding of the political reality of the time.


Erika FLP, Dr
Faculty of Modern and Mediavel Languages, New College, Oxford
[email protected] Parallel session I.4, Room F

The Space and Place of Narratology: Between Geometry and
Geography

Despite narratologists willingness to consider narratology to be not the theory
of narrative, but rather a theory of narrative (Meister), narratology risks
reaching a point in its growth where it bends space and time and pulls toward
itself any approach to narrativity. Ironically, as Andrew Gibson argued, the core
of the object producing this effect is precisely an implicit negation of relativity,
a framework based on classical geometry with its postulate of a flat space and
the possibility of clear hierarchical and centralized structures. The question is
thus open as to the nature of the ideal space for narrative analysis and the
possibility of a theory or theories of narrative that facilitate fruitful interpreta-
tive work while avoiding the pitfalls of both structuralist ideology and decon-
struction. Rather than addressing the issue in purely theoretical terms, this
paper proposes a case study of the ways in which literary critics have used or
eluded narratological terms in practice and combined them with other interpre-
tative strategies and conceptual tools in the reading of Jean Echenozs fiction.
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Echenoz offers a rich example insofar as he both challenges literary criticism
according to Dominique Viart, Echenoz crit pour dranger la narratologie
and invites an approach in terms of space, the importance and novel handling
of which greatly contributes to the singularity of his narratives.


Per Krogh HANSEN
Head of Department, IDK, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding
[email protected] Parallel session II.9, Room H

Narrative Design

This paper explores how the concept of design can be helpful in our under-
standing of narrative. According to Ralph and Wand (2009), design can formal-
ly be defined as follows: (noun) a specification of an object, manifested by an
agent, intended to accomplish goals, in a particular environment, using a set of
primitive components, satisfying a set of requirements, subject to constraints;
(109). If this definition is used on narrative texts (verbal or graphical), the
four italicized characteristics make good sense. To consider the narrative de-
sign of a given text is to focus on how the narrativity (the specification) of the
text (the object) purposefully (with a goal) has been created by an au-
thor/narrator (the agent) in a certain setting and situation (environment). But
what are the primitive components? What requirements must be satisfied, and
what are the constraints? These are some of the questions that will be ap-
proached in the presentation. The aim is to test whether concepts like storytell-
ing, fiction and intention can be given a new frame for understanding when
considered as elements of narrative design.


Paul HAZEL, Dr
School of Digital Media, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK
[email protected] Parallel session II.9, Room H

Temporal Patterning in Narrative

This paper investigates the phenomenon variously known as the dramatic arc,
the narrative arc, or the story arc, most widely disseminated as variations
upon Freytags Pyramid. Descriptions of this arc are commonplace throughout
certain sections of the literature on new media theory, computer game design,
film theory, dramatic theory, and interactive learning environments. This dra-
matic arc suggests that narratives unfold over time in a predictable way, i.e.
that they have temporal patterning.
Whilst patterning is a common concept within mainstream narratology, the
idea that narrative has a prototypical temporal structure is almost entirely
absent from this literature. This paper traces the idea back to its origins in
Aristotle and, using a number of transmedial case studies, suggests there is
some evidence to support the temporal pattern concept.
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The paper then addresses a key theoretical issue the nature of the y axis in
these representations which is resolved with the identification of a new varia-
ble, logical displacement. This allows a new visual methodology for narrative
analysis to be proposed, featuring a discrete subset of inter-related traces:
logical displacement, time, emotional intensity, and information.


Benot HENNAUT, PhD student
Langues et Lettres, Universit Libre de Bruxelles / CRAL, EHESS, Paris
[email protected] Parallel session III.12, Room C

The narrative limits of a specific genre: the theatre directors script

By theatre directors script we mean texts in which the content of a full thea-
tre performance is textually captured by its own author/director after the per-
formance has been completed. It should not be confused with written stage di-
rections (didascalies) or any traditional dramatic text (play scripts or scenes),
nor with the directors notes or notebooks detailing plans for directing a specif-
ic text. Scripts are mostly related to avant-garde theatre pieces that do not
traditionally rely only on text or language, insisting more on the priority of
performance and stage writing (they can be traced back to the historical avant-
garde). In the 1990s, the Italian dramatist and director Romeo Castellucci in-
sisted on the importance of his scripts to the point that he would publish them
as an archive of his pieces. By narrating a piece, his scripts directly address the
narrative function of action comprehension, and they problematize the narra-
torial function as well as the fictional nature of the text. Theatre directors
scripts are very interesting case studies for the analysis of actional descriptions
and their narrative limits, narratorial positioning and narrative identity (focus-
ing on the author/narrator split), as well as narrative functions between the real
and the imaginary. They also illustrate the unavoidable narrative nature of all
discourse surrounding the history and archiving of live art and avant-garde
theatre performance.


Noelle HEWETSON, PhD student
School of English Drama and Film, University College Dublin, Ireland
[email protected] Parallel session III.11, Room B

The Threshold Chronotope as a Unifying Narrative Device in David
Mitchells Cloud Atlas

In his article Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and the Short Story as Threshold
(Narrative, 2012), Trussler discusses Bakhtins threshold chronotope and the
fundamental encounter of the face, drawing attention to their heuristic
potential for story analysis, particularly in the short story and novella.
According to Bakhtin, chronotopes are the organising centres for the
fundamental narrative events of the novel. They contain a special increase in
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density and concreteness of time markers that occurs in well-delineated spatial
areas. The threshold chronotope signifies a moment of profound significance
and is an important element in narrative analysis. David Mitchells Cloud Atlas
provides an interesting example. It features six individual novellas nested one
inside the other like Russian Matryoshka dolls in a complex interplay of
framing and framed narratives, each of which has its own narrator. The
threshold chronotope features at a key moment in each section. It functions as
a recurring narrative element linking the sections and manifesting Cloud Atlass
core theme of interconnectivity. More importantly, it highlights the defining
moment in each narrative, the point at which each character makes a choice
that has profound implications for his or her future life, and for the unfolding
of each story.


Lukas HOFFMANN, PhD student
American Studies Department, University of Tbingen, Germany
[email protected] Parallel session I.5, Room G

Fictionalized Fact and Factualized Fiction

All of this is true. This book is really true (The Pale King)
You are, unfortunately, a fiction writer. (Octet)

This paper will discuss two contemporary texts, both hybrids of fiction and
nonfiction: David Wallaces The Pale King, a fictitious undertaking that claims
to be true, and his fictitious story Octet, a metafactual reflection on the act
of writing. I will argue by means of audience investigations how contemporary
literatures fiction/nonfiction hybridity creates specific challenges for the read-
ers.
This paper will discuss how certain forms of direct address (you, Reader)
and (non)fiction markers in a text startle audiences who have a particular level
of expectation. Parallel to the shift within the frame of expectation, the range of
interpretation (cf. Wolfgang Iser) changes. I will show how Wallaces narrators
apply autobiographical markers and audience addresses in order to factualize
fiction (in The Pale King) and fictionalize facts (in Octet). Peter Rabinowitz
states the idea that when the distinction between [narrative and authorial
audience] disappears entirely, we have autobiography (Rabinowitz), an as-
sumption with which I will start my discussion. I will analyze how hybridity in
contemporary texts forces readers to permanently reassess their range of in-
terpretation.

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Matti HYVRINEN, Professor
School of Social Sciences & Humanities
University of Tampere, Finland
[email protected]
Elina VILJAMAA, Dr
Faculty of Education
University of Oulu, Finland
[email protected]
Parallel session III.15, Room F

Every-day Unnatural Narration?

We suggest that the less than happy terminology of natural and unnatural
narratology be replaced by the distinction between the every-day and the
artistic ways of narration. Such ordinary phenomena as dream narratives
exhibit a strong potential for self-consciousness by being able to reflect dream-
ing and dream-work. We suggest the relevance of an extremely ordinary and
deeply unnatural genre of fictional narration: childrens imaginary play-
narration. Our example comes from Elina Viljamaas recent dissertation about
childrens knowledge, play and narration. The study showed that children cre-
ated an ongoing play within a submarine world where they were able to play
and tell about their actual world of experience. Fictionalizing thus becomes a
central feature of childrens getting to know their family environment. The
most impressive case started when the elder brothers (five and seven years old)
ran home and told how goblins had stolen their younger sister in the nearby
forest. The dissertation demonstrates how relevant the resources of (unnatu-
ral or antimimetic) fictionalizing were in the way the children learned to orient
themselves in their social and material world. Even though we endorse the need
for genre distinctions, we also argue for the deep naturalness of several key
aspects of unnatural narratology.


Reiko IKEO, Associate Professor
Department of English, School of Commerce, Senshu University, Senshu, Japan
[email protected] Parallel session V.24, Room C

Like Similes in First-person Narrative

Figurative expressions in Kathys narrative in Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishigu-
ro tend to appear in the form of similes or with the explicit marker of simili-
tude like. The frequency of like similes is particularly high in this novel. The
primary focus of this paper is an examination of the effects achieved by like
similes and how they contribute to constructing this 1
st
-person narrative. In the
novel, like is used with syntactic flexibility and semantic versatility, and these
like similes are predominantly used to describe the characters emotions,
actions, and situations in which the characters are portrayed. As the characters
mature and approach the final phase of their lives as donors, the characters
viewpoints and the narrators presentation of them shift. When like is used to
introduce a characters inner state, as in It was like she was too ashamed of
the matter [] (Ishiguro 2005), it provides the 1
st
-person narrator/character
with neutrality about the source domain, which could not be achieved by other
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simile markers such as as if. By using the like simile, the 1
st
-person narrator
consistently reveals how she interprets the characters and environments and
calls attention to her assumptions. Such a patterned expression used as a fo-
cusing device can be associated with the function of like as a discourse marker
in spoken discourse and adds a colloquial, informal tone to the narrative.


Stefan IVERSEN, Assistant Professor
Department of Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University, Denmark
[email protected] Parallel session V.25, Room E

Broken or Unnatural? On the Distinctions of Fictionality in Non-
conventional Narration

The question of what Dorrit Cohn famously called the distinction of fiction
holds a peculiar place, occasionally taking center stage, but mostly lying
dormant in or beyond the margins of the discussions of narrative study. What
difference does it make whether a narrative is taken to be fictive or, as Richard
Walsh would describe it, fictionalized, or not? In the ongoing debates about
consolidation and diversification in the broad field of narrative study, scholars
in different subfields have reaffirmed earlier claims that, even though fictional-
ized and non-fictionalized narratives can be said, on one level, to serve fairly
dissimilar cultural functions, on other levels they exhibit similarities that are
more fundamental than these differences with regard to their status as narra-
tives. The paper sets out to question aspects of this position. Comparing and
elaborating on results from unnatural narratology and from work on non-
coherent or broken narratives, the paper seeks to bring forth what are argued
to be important and, in some cases, incommensurable differences between the
invitations offered by fictionalized and non-fictionalized non-conventional
narratives.


John JACOBS, Professor
Southern Connecticut University
[email protected] Parallel session III.15, Room F

Discussions of Love in the Life History Narratives of Adults at
Fifty

This study analyzed the persons, activities and objects which participants de-
scribed as loving or having at some point in their life, once loved. 220 individu-
als provided a life history narrative shortly after their fiftieth birthday. When
participants used the word love, 58% of the time it was in reference to an
activity, 26% to a person and 16% to an object. Mens use of the word love to
describe either a current person or activity was correlated to weak social sup-
ports, minimal work and family obligations and alcohol consumption. Womens
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use of the word in terms of persons and activities was positively correlated to
having a well-developed social network, but negatively correlated to being over-
weight and experiencing physical pain. Mens use of the word love in relation
to objects was associated with a positive assessment of their financial situation,
but also with a decline in physical functioning. For women, love of objects was
predicted by financial status, but also the death of friends and family, social
isolation, and physical difficulties with having intercourse. The study also ana-
lyzed the specific activities, persons and objects loved and discussed the out-
come of the data analysis in relation to gender roles, social capital and aspira-
tions and expectations at mid-life.


Jelena V. JOVANOVI, teaching assistant
Department of Serbian and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Philosophy, Uni-
versity of Ni, Serbia
[email protected] Parallel session 1.4, Room F

Paratext The Meeting Place of the Story and its Interpretation

This paper deals with the border lines of literary texts. As our starting point, we
take the statement There can be framing, but there are no frames (Derrida).
Our aim is to explore parts of a novel and find the ways in which specific narra-
tive strategies participate in making its meaning. The question that follows is of
the inner and outer borders, observed through the mutual interaction between
the central and the peripheral, ergon and parergon. Particular attention will be
devoted to exploring titles, subtitles, epigraphs and signatures, and we will
explore to what degree these borders can modify the acquisition of a literary
text by creating and changing the readers expectations. The liminal status of
these forms informs us of their ambiguous function, for at the same time they
both belong to the text and stand out from it. As the meeting place of the story
and its interpretation, the peritext carries strong rhetorical potential. Therefore,
it is often both the subject and the means of interpretation.


Ursula-Helen KASSAVETI, Dr.
Communication and Media Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of
Athens, Greece
[email protected] Parallel session IV.23, Room H

Popular Film Genre Narratives: Unveiling the Structure of Feeling

Narrating a whole world, narrating meanings and values as they are actively
lived and felt, and the relations (R. Williams 1977) could be an apt challenge
for studying the history of popular film: how is a popular genre structured in
terms of narrative patterns, representational tactics and ideological scopes? In
what ways are the specifically affective elements of consciousness and rela-
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tionships (R. Williams 1977) which constitute the lived culture and experience
of a certain period reflected in the narratives of popular films?
Based on Williams work in Cultural Studies and the reader-response theory,
this paper will focus on the 1960s popular Greek melodrama, a genre not to be
associated with the respective Hollywood equivalent. Employing narratives of
desperate love affairs, illnesses and fate, the Greek melodrama emerged at a
time when society and culture were undergoing change. Its overwhelming ritual
function appealed to a large and diverse audience. The latter would identify
closely with current lifestyles of the day, despite the restrictions imposed by an
audiovisual structure meant to allure and entertain them.


Liesbeth KORTHALS ALTES, Professor
Department of French, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
[email protected] Parallel session III.13, Room D

Narratology as a (Meta-)Hermeneutic Heuristics: Ethos attributions,
generic and other framings in Michel Houellebecqs La Carte et le
territoire

In this paper I will reflect on what it means, and how it may be beneficial, to
consider narratology as a discipline. I will plead for a sharper recognition of
the various trades that go under the flag of narratology or narrative theory.
Without such an understanding, we may find it hard to assess with clarity the
multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinarity that characterizes much that goes under
the flag of narratology, or to justify beyond our own interpretive communities
the heterogeneity of narratological research. In particular, I will defend the
relevance, within narratology, of a meta-hermeneutic perspective against claims
of more objective textual description or analysis. The continuities and differ-
ences will be explored between this meta-hermeneutic perspective and rhetori-
cal and (some forms of) cognitive narratology. My (meta-hermeneutic) argument
will be exemplified by the analysis of style, characterization, generic framing,
and ethos attributions in Michel Houellebecqs La Carte et le territoire (2010).


Elizabeth KOVACH, PhD student
International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, University of Gieen,
Germany
[email protected] Parallel session II.8, Room C

Post-9/11 Worlds: Oscillations between Possibility and Actuality in
Jonathan Franzens Freedom

Within its short history, the post-9/11 novel has undergone several stylistic
and thematic developments. Early novels focused intensely on the immediate
trauma of the September 11
th
attacks. More recent works deal with 9/11 as a
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peripheral event situated within a conglomerate of 21
st
-century conditions that
are at once political, social, economic, environmental and technological. My
paper applies possible-worlds theoretical formulations to Jonathan Franzens
Freedom as it investigates how depictions of fictional worlds connect with
extra-fictional contexts. Where and how does the narrative dissolve barriers
between possible and actual? What narrative elements expose the novel as a
dialogic nexus for literary, political and historical frameworks? Franzen weaves
his authorial persona into the story, acting as a vehicle that links the novel to
the ambient discourses in which it has been articulated. Narrative patterns and
strategies reveal self-conscious positioning in other words, the process of
writing and world-making within postmillennial America becomes a theme in
itself and problematizes the classical story-discourse binary. 9/11 is only men-
tioned briefly, yet I argue that its eventfulness pervades the text, which de-
picts a risk society (Ulrich Beck), a governmentality (Michel Foucault) and a
novelistic form specific to its cultural context. The analysis contributes to the
field of cultural narratology by exploring the possibilities that an interdiscipli-
nary approach allows.


Filip KRTICKA, MA student
Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University, Pra-
gue, Czech Republic
[email protected] Parallel session V.24, Room C

We-narratives and Collective Memory: The Case of William
Faulkners A Rose for Emily

Embedding the story explicitly in the collective dimension, we-narratives can be
usefully conceptualized within the interdisciplinary framework of collective
memory. This paper is particularly concerned with the distinction between we-
narratives that (re)present individual discourse (narrated by an individual refer-
ring to himself/herself and others) and those that (re)present collective dis-
course (narrated by a group or a collective). It links these two modes of we-
narratives respectively to the distributed version of collective memory, which
claims that collective memory is distributed among the individual members of
a collective, and to the strong version of collective memory, which assumes a
collective mind or consciousness beyond individual minds. The usefulness of
this interdisciplinary approach in analyzing we-narratives is demonstrated on
William Faulkners A Rose for Emily. Using the theoretical framework of we-
narratives developed by Uri Margolin and Brian Richardson, the paper analyzes
Faulkners best-known short story and discusses the two views of collective
memory (re)presented in the text in relation to the first-person plural narrator
and its collective narrative. Both the we-narrative and the collective memory of
the short story have a specific cultural context, as they tie in nicely with the
claims made about and the sense of the American Souths mind of its own.

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Silke LAHN, M.A., Research Assistant
Institute for German Studies, Hamburg University, Germany
[email protected]

Stephanie NEU, Dr, Associate Professor
Institute for Romance Studies, Mannheim University, Germany
[email protected] Parallel session I.5, Room G

Some Facts about Fiction: Towards a Narratological Crossing of the
factuality-fictionality divide

An emerging vector in narratological studies is without doubt the presumed
factuality-fictionality divide. Extensive recent research in this area focuses on
two crucial questions: What criteria justify differentiating two discrete sets of
narratives? And can a transmedial approach to the analysis of audiovisual rep-
resentations enable us to better categorize factual and fictional narratives?
We will examine these questions by looking at two recent and iconic examples
in European storytelling: Lahn will analyse the Danish TV series Klovn (2005
09) by Christensen and Hvam. Here, the two scriptwriters act as the main char-
acters using their real names, as themselves, accompanied by real-life celebri-
ties in guest appearances. Neu will analyse the Italian TV series Romanzo crimi-
nale (200810). This series refers to real persons and actual events while em-
ploying storytelling patterns typical for fiction. Both series mix presumed con-
trarious factual and fictional elements, but each enter the grey area between
factuality and fictionality from opposite poles.
In our paper, we have two primary goals: (1) to illustrate the variety of the phe-
nomena in the field of non-fiction vs. fiction, and (2) to propose the thesis that
a single category can indeed encompass the entire range of the factuality-
fictionality spectrum.


Pascal LEFVRE, Dr
LUCA (Campus Sint-Lukas Brussel) / Faculty of Social Sciences, KU Leuven
[email protected]
[email protected]
Parallel session I.3, Room C

The Narratological Paradoxes of Dreaming

There is one fundamental argument for homo narrans that has seldom been
addressed in narratology: the dreaming process at night is in essence a narra-
tion. Even persons who dont think they have the capacity to tell a story or
write a script when they are awake become, in their sleep, perfect storytellers
for themselves. A surprising element is that two opposing positions or entities
seem to be at work at the same time: part of us drags us into a story (with lots
of surprises), and the other part of us experiences the events as if we were
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unable to influence their course except in the case of plot control in lucid
dreams but their actual frequency is relatively low.
One problem for research is that dreams are extremely personal; and because
existing technology does not offer us a direct access to dreams, dream re-
searchers must work with imperfect memories and verbal recollections. While
science has not achieved a true understanding of the dreaming process, I would
argue that narratologists can already address this issue by testing their con-
cepts and hypotheses.


Huaiyu LUO, PhD student
Department of Music, Media and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Australia
College of Foreign Languages, Beijing Language and Culture University, China
[email protected] Parallel session III.10, Room A

Comparison of Chinese-Western Narrative Poetics: State of the Field

Narratology, as a modern form of knowledge about narrative driven by struc-
turalism in the western tradition, has developed into a universal discipline, in
the course of which other significant approaches to narrative have largely been
excluded from the field. For example, the rich legacies of indigenous Chinese
narrative poetics, with its inception as early as the pre-Qin period and culmina-
tion in the Ming-Qing Dynasties, have so far remained unknown or obscure to
many western narratologists. A constructive dialogue, or negotiation, between
the two loci through comparison is conducive to making our knowledge of
narrative fuller in scope and greater in power. This paper seeks to present a
general description and tentative evaluation of comparative studies in this
particular field by representative scholars from European, Chinese, and Anglo-
American literary-theoretic circles since the middle of the last century and to
explore the possibilities and ways of making the field a new pole of growth and
consolidation of narrative theory.


Cindie MAAGAARD, Assistant Professor
Institute of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark,
Kolding
[email protected] Parallel session V.26, Room H

Visualizing Constructions Yet to Be: Narratological Models and
Architectural Renderings

My talk will use architects pictorial renderings of visualized urban construc-
tions in a discussion of two issues addressed by postclassical narratology. The
first, explored by Uri Margolin (1999), considers temporality, aspectuality and
modality and the expansion of narratological models to account for texts which
deviate from the prototypical retrospective mode. The second, much discussed
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by Marie-Laure Ryan (2004; 2005; 2012) and others, is the degree to which
spatially organized texts, such as drawings and paintings, possess the narrativi-
ty needed to stimulate narrative interpretations. I engage with these two dis-
cussions to argue that the visual resources of architectural renderings enable
the arrangement of spatial forms in ways that compel receivers to manage
different temporalities and modalities simultaneously as future, imagined ur-
ban constructions, and the people using them, are superimposed onto existing
structures of past and present. While monophase renderings themselves are
arguably not narratives (Kafalenos 2001; Ryan 2012), they do simultaneously
depict both what is there and what is not there but will be, and thus employ
semiotic resources in a way that stimulates receivers mental constructions of a
story of transformation and futurity.


Gunther MARTENS, Professor
Department of German, Ghent University, Belgium
[email protected] Parallel session III.12, Room C

Text Theatricality: An integrated approach through narratology and
performance studies

My talk takes its cue from the increasing trend to adapt novels to the theatrical
stage and from other innovative performance practices (reading performances,
installations, social immersion projects). It aims to study the intersection bet-
ween narrative and drama both in these contemporary performance practices
and from a theoretical point of view. Selected case studies from 20
th
- and 21
st
-
century German and Austrian literature and international adaptation and per-
formance practices will be described in terms of their text theatricality. Text
theatricality means that the textual material already develops and gestures at a
theatricality in its own right, which the scenic performance retains by way of an
unresolved (e.g., intermedial) tension and through emergent narrativity. Text
theatricality ranges from the use of (self-)narrators, choric figures and stage
managers, marked shifts between showing and telling, to the (actual or sug-
gested) presence of a script altering and constraining the performance. The un-
derlying claim that this restores (micro-)instances of narrativity and narratorial
profiling to the stage does not sit easily with current conceptions of the post-
dramatic theatre. Nevertheless, rhetorical narratology may help to facilitate the
analysis of how narrativity intertwines with figurality and how narratorial stra-
tegies open up a vantage point to be negotiated by both actors and spectators.
The methodology will be applied to texts by Kraus, Musil, Jelinek and Pollesch
and their adaptations.



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Sneana MILOSAVLJEVI MILI, Professor
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Ni, Serbia
[email protected] Parallel session I.4, Room F

Border(less) Narrative Liminal Space of Narratology

This paper discusses virtual embedded narrative and its role in extending the
borders of narrative. Following theoretical assumptions of David Herman, Ger-
ald Prince and Marie-Laure Ryan, when analyzing a virtual narrative, we empha-
size its narrative potential for extending genre and destabilizing the semantic
outcomes of narrative. As subtypes of virtual narrative, we analyze iterations
and negative narrative alterations. Special attention is paid to how they create
tension with regard to authenticating narrative worlds. In this way, we question
the setting of story worlds, whether they lie in the center or on the periphery of
a given narrative. By bringing bordering and hypothetical areas of narrative into
focus, modern narrative theory confirms its openness to new theoretical ten-
dencies, but it does not neglect the achievements of the classical era of narra-
tology.


Parastoo MOHEBBI, PhD student
Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Iran
[email protected] Parallel session II.8, Room C

A Reflection on History: The Place of Historiographical Metafiction
in Iranian New Drama

This paper examines the role of Metafiction as a literary device to reconsider
the inscribed history in Iran. The main problem of the research would then be
covered through revising certain typical styles of traditional storytelling fol-
lowed by contemporary Iranian novelists and dramatists. In common literary
traditions since the 18
th
century, storytelling has accounted for a type of histo-
riography in terms of writing techniques and the style of representing the in-
formation employed in practice. But in the postmodern era, the notion of refer-
ring to reality has become extremely suspect as a result of writing metafictions.
Historiographical metafiction is a type of narrative in which authors attempt to
provide readers with an alternative opportunity to re-establish history individu-
ally through a wide range of literary devices such as asynchrony, parody, irony
and collage. It aims to illustrate that inscribed history is no longer an absolute
reality, but perhaps simply a personal mode of the unlimited methods of story-
telling. There are a number of illustrious Iranian plays in which a fragmented
history has been originally depicted in a separate units of events and charac-
ters. Applying an anachronic style of narrative, caricaturized portraits of Irani-
an epic heroes as well as dismantling superstitious folk beliefs provides an al-
ternative mode of revising the verifiability of history. This paper focuses on M.
Charmshirs The Long Tale of Kings Journey as a major case study.

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Micha MRUGALSKI, Dr.
University of Warsaw, Poland / University of Tbingen, Germany
[email protected] Parallel session IV.22, Room F

Mechanics of Disruption. Interruption Theory of Narrative

The currently dominant paradigm in narratology is based on holism. Study of
narrative should, by the paradigms principles, concentrate on a preconceived
wholeness that a given narrative allegedly represents or strives for, because the
true (about and in the narrative) is the whole. This applies not only to numer-
ous semiotic, structuralist, system-theoretical stances which concentrate on de-
velopment or division of the conveyed sense. Feminist, postcolonial, politically
charged positions also postulate that the whole truth be told by a narrative.
And yet, there is a current in the history of reflection on narrative that appreci-
ates discontinuity and interruption but does not seem to have the impact it de-
serves to have on academic narratology. According to this stance, a holistic
meaning will never reveal itself unless the narrative is interrupted abruptly. The
disruptive tradition of narratology goes back to the very beginnings of the dis-
cipline at the turn of the 19
th
century and within the framework of the theory of
drama, specifically of tragedy. The aim of the present paper is to lay bare the
interruption-oriented tradition of narrative studies by way of ordering its prem-
ises, that are scattered over various scientific and philosophical utterances
(Schiller, Hlderlin, Cieszkowski, Sowacki, Bloch, Schmitt, Blumenberg, Benja-
min, Celan, Girard, Lacan, Lotman, Lacou-Labarthe, Bohrer) in an attempt to
formulate an interruption theory of narrative.


Carmen MUAT, Senior Lecturer, PhD
Department of Literary Studies, University of Bucharest, Romania
[email protected] Parallel session IV.22, Room F

What Expectation Means to Narrative

Telling the story of ones life involves as many fictional devices (in the etymo-
logical sense of the word fiction) as writing a novel. The narrative pattern of
each and every life, like our very understanding of the world as narrative un-
derstanding, makes human beings so sensitive to prose writing.
Yet, expectation may be considered one of the most intriguing features uniting
and differentiating life and fiction. It follows that it is important to elucidate
the relationship between to wait and to expect in constructing narratives, since
there are at least three instances defined by their attitudes toward time in nar-
rative: the narrator, the character(s) and the reader. Along these lines, expecta-
tion refers not only to suspense (which has to do with the plot), but also to
what Jauss calls horizon of expectation. It is as much as saying that expecta-
tion affects both the story (which implies fictional time and space) and the
reading process.
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To illustrate these points, I will look at Tolstoys The Death of Ivan Ilych and
Becketts Malone Dies.


Henrik Skov NIELSEN, Professor
Centre for Fictionality Studies, Department of Aesthetics and Communication,
Aarhus University, Denmark
[email protected] Parallel session IV.19, Room B

Ten Theses about Fictionality

The paper investigates the relationship between fiction understood as a conven-
tionalized set of genres, on the one hand, and fictionality conceived of as the
result of a human cognitive ability to fictionalize by processing not only what
is, but also to imagine and to communicate what is possible and non-actual, on
the other hand. From this perspective, it is argued that modernity witnessed an
institutionalization of the human ability to fictionalize: a set of specific generic
outlets was formed and became the dominant way of expressing fictionality.
Today we are witnessing a widespread tendency for fictionality to be expressed
beyond such conventionalized boundaries. What we have come to know as
fiction is, in this perspective, a relatively short-lived historical phenomenon
which can usefully be examined in light of its more general role. The formation
of conventional, fictional genres can work as a prism to throw light forward as
well as backward on the historical role and development of the ability to fic-
tionalize. The paper outlines ten theses about fictionality conceived of as a
result of this ability.


Ulf PALMENFELT, Professor
Department of Ethnology, Gotland University, Sweden
[email protected] Parallel session III.17, Room H

Folkloristic Narrative Analysis

Since the time of the Grimm brothers, folklore scholars have developed meth-
ods for analyzing different genres of orally distributed narratives with qualities
like unknown origins, collective ownership, and lack of authorized versions.
In my ongoing study of some 200 tape-recorded life history narratives, I apply
genre analysis, ritual theory, performance perspectives and other folkloristic
methods of analysis. Although individual life histories per definition are nei-
ther collective nor have an unknown origin, they still tend to be influenced by
traditional cultural templates. My material shows numerous examples of how
individual narrators have adapted their accounts to better suit the fixed for-
mats of how childhood, wartime experiences or professional careers should
be narrated. From a performance perspective, conversations between younger
interviewers and older narrators sometimes can be heard to form dialogues
across generations, where social, cultural and economic issues are debated.
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From a ritual point of view, the interview situations can be regarded as taking
place in liminal arenas, outside the ordinary borders of time and space, created
by the interplay between the participants.
Folklorists have borrowed analytical tools from contemporary narratologies; I
will argue that folkloristics can contribute methodologically to the mutual field
of narrative analysis.


Joshua PARKER, Dr.
Department of English and American Studies, University of Salzburg, Austria
[email protected] Parallel session IV.19, Room B

Spatial Metaphors in Postclassical Narratology: A Compensation for
Settings own Content?

Laying classical narratologys groundwork, Todorov imagined temporal, causal
and spatial relationships as equal constituents of narrative. While theorists fa-
miliarized with classical theory through Chatmans work tended to magnify
Todorovs reluctance to treat physical narrative space at length, with Joseph
Franks influence, Foucaults suggestion that ours is the epoch of space, and
the post-Sojan spatial turn, one might imagine that any early theoretical ne-
glect of space has been overcome. Yet in failing to account for physical exist-
ence, Ryan notes, many of postclassical narratologys spatial concepts are only
metaphorically spatial, echoing Mihly Szegedy-Maszks suggestion that the
poetics of narrative employs spatial metaphors referring to sometimes quite
dissimilar phenomena, resulting in a deep-seated ambiguity in the language
of most narratologists.
Nothing, wrote Aristotle, exists without a place, and in any discipline, narrative
context is unavoidably spatial. This paper proposes that we might consolidate
many of postclassical narratologys ambiguous spatial metaphors (e.g., vec-
tors) by focusing on narratives more obvious spatial features. Urging a vocab-
ulary for describing form rather than content, Susan Sontag once lamented
the problem that our idea of [narrative] form is spatial. This paper suggests
that descriptions of narrative form as spatial often belie a neglect of narrative
settings potential for offering its own content.


Franco PASSALACQUA, Lecturer
Department of Law, Economics and Culture, University of Insubria, Italy
[email protected] Parallel session III.14, Room E

Two epistemic paradigms of narrative theory: constructivist vs.
mimetic

The talk aims to provide a reflection on the epistemological grounds of narra-
tive theory, suggesting the use of a dichotomy constructivist/mimetic for
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the purpose of making a transversal comparison between different theories and
methodologies.
What is typical of most definitions of narrative is the role attributed to its ref-
erent: the presence of some elements and/or of some of their properties is a
necessary and sufficient condition for the definition of narrative. Therefore, if
we examine the ontological and epistemological assumption of these defini-
tional referents, the theoretical framework becomes more complex and tends to
neutralize the differences between alternative definitions of narrative, as all the
terms constituting a definition are negotiable and dependent on a pre-existing
theoretical background. For this reason, it is necessary to focus on a theoretical
explanation, which leads to identifying two main tendencies that concern the
theoretical assumptions of all narrative theories.
This work is conducted by analyzing the ontological status of the narrative
object and,then by considering its epistemic dimension, that is, the connection
of the narrative object with the theoretical system within which it has been
defined. Finally, once the paradigms particularities have been identified, we
can corroborate, for purposes of comparison, their empirical validity, logical
consistency and descriptive effectiveness.


Beatriz PENAS-IBEZ, Senior Lecturer, Dr. in English Philology
Department of English and German, University of Zaragoza, Spain
[email protected] Parallel session IV.21, Room E

Socio-Pragmatics and Narrative (Non-)Standardness: The Example of
Haiku-like Minimal Narratives

The development of late 20
th
-century socio-pragmatic theories of meaning and
interpretation together with an interdisciplinary awareness of semiotics and
phenomenological hermeneutics has contributed to a better understanding of
both the system of language and narrativity as well as their double articulation
within narrative (literary and non-literary) verbal texts.
Socio-pragmatics helps to explain the way in which the micro- and macro-
structural articulation of meaning in narratives can be accounted for and inter-
preted as standard or non-standard (rather than natural/non-natural) within a
certain intercultural context.
Comparing Eastern and Western aesthetics and their corresponding narrative
practices through time can shed light on the issue. What is standard (natural?)
in the West need not be so in the East, and vice versa. Technique and design
affect narratives like they do bonsai. The nature/ culture dichotomy has oper-
ated in the West until recently. Its deconstruction is recent.
In this contribution, I mean to explore these relevant issues in connection with
one very special kind of narrative text, the minimal narrative, as reliant on the
poetics of the traditional Japanese Haiku form. In Japanese literature, the ge-
neric boundaries between poetry and narrative are fuzzier, and the Western
contrast between nature and culture has been conceived in terms of a gradient.

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John PIER, Professor
Department of English, University of Tours / CRAL (CNRS)
[email protected] Parallel session II.7, Room B

Complexity: A Paradigm for Narrative?

The disciplines that have federated as the sciences of complexity have had an
impact in narrative studies. However, this has been confined largely to the in-
terpretation of narratives and to the characterization of various narrative gen-
res. The evolution of narratology suggests that the implications of complexity
for the theory and analysis of narrative extend deeper, calling for a fresh look
at the nature of narrative itself. Three areas of complexity that converge with
narratological concerns are discussed. 1) Self-referentiality, a self-regulatory
principle common to second-order systems in cybernetics and to living organ-
isms, is based on recursiveness, whose most salient form in narrative is found
in metalepsis. 2) Emergent, non-linear patterns of cause and effect cast into a
new light not only the Aristotelian holistic unity of time, place and unity but
also, in analogy with non-equilibrium thermodynamics, the notion of sequence,
which can be seen as varying degrees disequilibrium, the dynamic and change-
able states of emergent and unstable wholes; thus called into question is the
implicit Newtonian cosmology of current notions of narrative worlds and sto-
ryworlds. 3) Pattern-based forms of narrative organization, the result of non-
linearity and non-equilibrium, introduce the idea that the whole is more than
the sum of the parts, thus relativizing the principles of structure and model,
form and content and the thesis that stories have a beginning, middle and end.


Erik PIETSCHMANN, PhD student
University of Tbingen, Germany
[email protected] Parallel session IV.20, Room C

Tell your life story: Linking Life and Identity through Multimedia
Narration in Facebooks Timeline

The Internet has long ceased to be an anonymous realm and has now become
an area of social interaction and self-expression. With the launch of Facebooks
new profile Timeline in January of 2012, its members were given the possibil-
ity to display and even create their own story. Everyone is now able to be the
author, narrator, illustrator and editor of his or her life and of the lives of their
friends. The result, Facebook suggests, should be a true chronicle of who we
are.
This paper will attempt to map the narrative means such digital forms of life
writing facilitates, but will it also point towards its limitations. Resting on Phe-
lans (2005) work on character narration and Rabinowitzs (1977) investiga-
tion of audience(s), I will consider the Facebook profile as a factualized fic-
tional account of life stories. I will specifically test to what extent these profiles
are not only selectively collaborative autobiographies, but also whether they are
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in fact idealized narrative attempts that seek to provide an answer to Sartwells
(2000) question as to whether human experience and human life are meaning-
ful.


Gunter Karl PRESSLER, Prof. Dr.
Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Federal do Par, Belm, Brazil
[email protected] Parallel sessiion I.5, Room G

Facts and Fiction: Events and stories in relation to texts and the world

In this paper, part of a larger research project entitled Amazon. Realities in the
novels and the imaginary reports of travelers, I focus on the following objec-
tives: a) the referentiality (Stierle 1997) of the text to the external world (goal,
empirical data); b) understanding fictionality in terms of make-believe (K.
Walton 1990) and the principle of internal coherence (F. Zipfel 2001). The
main section sets out the theoretical foundation of the relation between facts/
events and fictions, both as pragmatic and fictional texts. I then investigate in
what forms and ways existing facts, data, occurrences, events and narratives in
various kinds of texts constitute a representation and interpretation of the
world. The central focus of the study is on the Amazon region. The study is an
experiment in joining together different types of texts around the notion of
referentiality by emphasizing reference to the external world (factuality), the
reading of the component elements of a language and of discourse (narratolo-
gy), historical reading against the horizon of expectation (reception theory) and
the interpretation of the retrospective.


Michael RANTA, PhD
Centre for Cognitive Semiotics, Lund University, Sweden
[email protected] Parallel session I.1, Room A

Tellability in Pictorial Storytelling

In this paper, I shall discuss some possible criteria of narrativity with regard to
pictorial objects, and I will argue that pictorial works may express or imply
narrative structures of various kinds. Further, I intend to focus upon the narra-
tiveness of pictures, their tellability qua stories that is, what makes them
worth telling at all, or their noteworthiness. A number of features contributing
to the tellability of narratives have been suggested, such as eventfulness, chan-
ges of state, and the deviation of event or action sequences from pre-
established expectations. Alternative criteria for tellability would include, for
example, suspense, curiosity, and surprise; unusualness; switches and con-
trasts; violations of certain orders (political, social, or moral); and so on. Apart
from that, it could also be argued that the emotional significance and exempla-
ry status of narrated events play a crucial role. Monika Fludernik, for example,
has stressed the relationship between experientiality and narrativity, the ap-
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peal to humans prototypical existential concerns. Indeed, many successful
stories seem to be concerned with more or less universal human preoccupa-
tions such as sex, danger, life and death, power, money, and so on (Roger
Schank 1979). This paper will debate what narrative features might be more
relevant than others as good-making qualities of pictorial storytelling. Recent
research within cognitive psychology and narratology, as well as some concrete
pictorial examples, will be taken into account.


Gran ROSSHOLM, Professor
Department of Literature and History of Ideas, Stockholm University, Sweden
[email protected] Parallel session II.7, Room B

Causal Problems

According to the majority of narrative theories since Aristotles Poetics, causali-
ty has been considered a necessary ingredient. However, there are at least three
kinds of serious objections to this view. Firstly, according to some theorists,
narratives are or represent stories which in turn consist of at least two succes-
sive events; that is, no causality is necessary. Secondly, the notion of causality
is too strong: there is some kind of dependence relation between events in a
story even though this relation is not necessarily a causal relation. I will sketch
answers to these two objections, but my emphasis will be on the third objec-
tion, recently discussed by Greg Currie. He presents three counter-examples,
one from Aristotles Poetics (the story of the killing of Mity; it is presented as an
argument countering the thesis of narrative causality put forth in an article by
David Velleman) and two non-causal narratives sketched by Currie himself. I
will discuss different ways of dealing with these counter-examples and will ar-
gue for broadening the idea of causality to a criterion usually but not always
taking the form of an instance of causal dependence.


Philippe ROUSSIN, Directeur de recherche
CNRS / Maison Franaise dOxford / CRAL
[email protected] Parallel session IV.18, Room A

What Lessons can be Drawn from the Narrative Turn in the Human
and Social Sciences?

For over thirty years, the narrative turn has been affecting, successively, history
(L. Stone), anthropology, psychology (influence of narrative on the formation of
human identity, the much debated narrative identity), artificial intelligence
(modelling of the understanding of stories, the notion of narrative intelligence,
the development of video games), etc.
Indisputably, the narrative turn has contributed to a substantial increase in the
diversity of objects of study submitted to narrative analysis lato sensu, if not in
that of narratology itself, both classical and postclassical: narratives of every-
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day life alongside literary narratives; factual and documentary narratives along-
side fictional narratives; collective narratives alongside individual narratives;
etc.
It has also led to defining communication and human and social interactions
(W. R. Fisher) based on the model of homo narrans that prevails in relations
between humans, not to speak of the paradigmatic model of thought, turned
towards objects and the world (J. Bruner).
This new model also underscores the symbolic: human action can no longer be
studied but with reference to the meaning it is given by the actor. Stressing
actors and human interactions, it represents a turn because it turns the page
of classical narratology, which postulated actors and action as structures. Here,
it is difficult to speak of continuity between classical and postclassical narra-
tology.
Has diversification of the objects of study enabled a consolidation of narrato-
logical advances, or does it call for defining narrative anew? Narrative is now an
object, a conduct, a productive activity.


Eric RUNDQUIST, PhD student
School of English, The University of Nottingham, UK
[email protected] Parallel session I.3, Room C

How is Mrs Ramsay thinking? Non-verbal thought and locutionary
agency in the representation of consciousness

Palmer (2004), one of the major proponents of a shift to a cognitive science-
based narratology, points out a problem with the linguistics-based approach to
figural consciousness presentation: the application of speech categories to char-
acters thought prioritizes inner speech and ignores the predominantly non-
verbal mental activity that makes up human consciousness. While I support the
claim that thought has a non-verbal basis, I contest Palmers departure from
long-standing methods of linguistic analysis. Thought presentation categories
do not necessarily prioritize inner speech; in fact, they can convey varying con-
ceptions of how characters are thinking via analysable linguistic features, espe-
cially in terms of verbality and reflexivity.
Central to my approach is a distinction between locutionary agency in the fic-
tional world and the subjective orientation of language in the free indirect style
(FIS). Within FIS, signals that typically indicate locutionary agency instead enact
mimetic-diegesis (Toolan 2001), which allows for the representation of a wide
range of mental activity. I analyse a passage from Woolfs To the Lighthouse to
demonstrate how linguistic features convey varying types of thought and imply
the characters locutionary agency to different extents. This leads to a coherent
literary linguistic departure point for exploring the complicated relationship be-
tween narrative language and the fictional minds that it evokes.



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Luisa SALMASO, PhD student
School of Cognition and Education Sciences, Ca Foscari University of Venice, Italy
[email protected] Parallel session II.2, Room B

Executive Functions and Paths of Learning through Multilinear
Narrative Tools

Narration and multilinearity can be considered as two separate constructs,
divided between metaphorical-analogical thinking and logical-discursive think-
ing, thus reflecting the classic definition of Jerome Bruner, who considers these
two types of thought irreconcilable.
We assume that multilinear narrative tools which include the classic para-
digms of narrative in synchrony with expressive or graphic representations,
focusing on processes and potentially computable procedural facilitations
make transparent the connectibility between narrative-sequential thinking and
logical-paradigmatic thinking and that, during development from early child-
hood to pre-adolescence, these tools interact with generative processes in basic
education, relating to the representation in problem-setting.
Our main hypothesis is that the processes of Multilinear Narrative (plurality of
entries, nodes of selection and configuration/reconfiguration, enrichment of
the narrative plot provided by story grammars) activate the neuropsychological
processes involved in the representation of a problem, thus placing the learning
process within the scope of ecological model-sequential Executive Functions
(Zelazo et al. 1997, 2003) and educational actions (Minello and Margiotta 2011).
Based on a case study of 190 children aged 4 to 5 to 13, the method involves
educational training in problem-setting based on a known fairytale, an original
fairytale and a fictional setting, each processed linearly and multilinearly using
phenomenological analysis and qualitative and quantitative data.


Brian SCHIFF, Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Psychology, The American University of Paris
[email protected] Parallel session I.2, Room B

Psychologys Narrative

As Matti Hyvarinen (2006, 2010) has argued, narrative is a concept that has
travelled between disciplines. However, Hyvarinen (2010) notes that as the
narrative concept has travelled, it has also transformed, taking up new mean-
ings and significances in light of disciplinary concerns. Certainly, for over a
century, psychology has had a homegrown tradition of studying lives in con-
text. But, since the 1980s, psychologists have borrowed liberally from narrative
theory in literary narratology and historiography. The resulting genre of narra-
tive psychology is, if we are to look at it positively, polyvocal and complex, or,
if we are to look at it negatively, confused and fractal. In this paper, I outline
the history of the narrative metaphor in psychology, the dissonances and nu-
ances of the expression and how it is currently employed. However, I look to
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move beyond conceptual confusion. I argue for a particular definition of narra-
tive that locates narrating in the interpretative, hermeneutic, processes that
persons use to make sense of life.


Ralf SCHNEIDER, Professor Dr
British Literary and Cultural Studies, Bielefeld University, Germany
[email protected] Parallel session I.2, Room B

Cognitive Narratology Meets Neuroaesthetics: Is there a Future for
Neuro-Narratology?

Cognitive approaches have been among the consolidating forces in the wide
and varied field of narratology in recent years. If we take the initiative of cogni-
tivism seriously, the question arises whether we have to take the next step and
get involved with the study of the brain proper down to neurobiology.
Recent contributions to a field termed neuroaesthetics have signalled that
cognitive narratology might actually further diversify into a future neuro-
narratology. I would like to explore the question to what extent current neuro-
biological models of the physiology of the perception, storage and retrieval of
information in the human nervous system might shed light on the questions
that narratologists ask. I will discuss how the notion of neural co-activation
patterns offers a new perspective on the concept of schema, for instance, or
how the connections between brain regions responsible for affect and those
concerned with rationality may influence studies of story structure, immersion
and other reception phenomena. While it is important to avoid facile appropria-
tion of neurobiological findings, neuro-narratology, which follows a fundamen-
tally anthropological agenda, might still serve to bridge some of the gaps be-
tween the specialized narratologies of pluri-medial and pluri-modal storytelling.


Lars-ke SKALIN, Professor em.
Department of Comparative Literature, University of rebro, Sweden
[email protected] Parallel session III.14, Room E

Narratology Narratologies: Theoretical Monism or Pluralism?

Postclassical narratology the classical version identified with the structuralist
adaptation is sometimes referred to as narratologies. The reason, according
to David Herman, is that structuralist theorizing about stories has evolved into
a plurality of models for narrative analysis. Hermans term narratologies,
though, seems to suggest plurality as to methodologies only, but to maintain
singularity as to research object which can be approached as a unit under one
theory. This approach, I suggest, would be pluralism in a weak sense which
does not give a sense of narratology in the singular. My paper takes narratol-
ogies from the perspective of a strong pluralism that defies any monist narra-
tive theory. This is a consequence of narrative and story being polysemous
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terms embracing several kinds of language-games, many of which are not com-
binable under one overriding theory. I demonstrate, with examples, that not
even a rather limited collection of language-games commonly labelled stories
in ordinary parlance exhibits de re compatibility. This demonstration suggests
that a realistic aim of the practice called theorizing on narrative would be to
come to terms with a plurality of topics as subjects in their own right, and not
just as aspects of a singular complex yet coherent unit.


Ondej SLDEK, PhD
Institute of Czech Literature, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic,
Prague
[email protected] Parallel session II.7, Room B

What is Narrative Explanation?

Nowadays the term narrative is commonly used in the humanities and sciences
and also in education. However, in each of these fields the term is used in dif-
ferent ways and for different purposes. Narratives can be employed in order to
illustrate specific scholarly issues, to describe these issues in their historical
development, and to deliver them in a more popular and widely accessible way
to the public. In addition, narratives substantially contribute to the very crea-
tion of scholarly theories thanks to narrative modeling and the legitimization
of models.
If narratives play an important role in the humanities, sciences and education,
this is due to the fact that they shape our understanding and conceptualization
of the world. Accordingly, the key questions this paper seeks to address are the
following: What is narrative explanation? Does this type of explanation really
exist, and what forms does it take? To answer these questions, I first discuss in
detail the differences between particular forms of narrative explanation in the
humanities, sciences and education (with regard to event, causality, etc.). I then
outline a typology of the kinds of narrative explanations used in these fields.
Finally, I discuss the potential and possibilities of this line of inquiry, which
falls between narratology and the philosophy of science.


Oleg SOBCHUK, MA student
Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu, Estonia
[email protected] Parallel session I.3, Room C

The Passivity of the Reader: The Role of Accentuation in the
Process of Apprehending Narrative

I will discuss certain peculiarities concerning the functioning of memory during
the processing of narratives. My research will be based on the well-known theo-
ry of text comprehension proposed by T. A. van Dijk and W. Kintsch, who
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stated that comprehension of every text (e.g., narrative texts) is selective. I
would like to argue the following points:
1) The selectiveness of narrative comprehension is not arbitrary. In every narra-
tive there is a certain structure that may be called accentuation structure, the
aim of which is to mark the elements that have to be retained in mind of the
perceiver. Due to this accentuation, the narrative is hierarchical from the mne-
monic perspective.
2) Accentuation may be explicit (e.g., the phrase Pay attention to this event,
because...) or implicit, i.e., a less obvious indication of the importance of a nar-
rative element (repetition, narrator's evaluation, specific additional events, etc.).
3) The existence of the accentuation structure helps clarify the functioning of
narrative equivalence. If a narrative includes two events, A and X, linked seman-
tically, the former usually will be accentuated, although the second will not be.


Roy SOMMER, Professor of English
University of Wuppertal, Germany
[email protected] Parallel session IV.18, Room A

Merger or Joint Venture? A consolidated model of classical and
postclassical narratologies

The past two decades have seen an unprecedented interest growth of in narra-
tive. This narrative turn in the humanities and other disciplines has had a ma-
jor impact on narrative theory in general, and narratology in particular. The
proliferation of narratologies claiming to be successors of or more viable al-
ternatives to structural analysis has recently been criticised not only by re-
strictive narratologists but also by representatives of postclassical approaches
who are working towards consolidation of the field.
This paper discusses whether such a consolidated narratology should, to ex-
pand the economic metaphor or consolidation, be considered the result of a
merger of narratologies (in analogy to business amalgamations) or rather as a
joint venture. The paper proposes a consolidated model of classical and post-
classical narratologies that is based on vertical (diachronic) and horizontal
(synchronic) integration of contextual and textual approaches. It further defines
principles for postclassical narratological theorising that include backwards,
forwards and sideways compatibility. This model, and the principles derived
from it, will help to clarify the status, objectives and cross-disciplinary poten-
tial of postclassical narratology.



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Ludmila TATARU, Dr. of Philology, Professor
Department of Foreign Languages, Saratov State University, Balashov Institute,
Russia
[email protected] Parallel session IV.21, Room E

Lyric Poetry as a Narrative Speech Genre

As Brian McHale pointed out in his article Beginning to think about narrative in
poetry (Narrative, 2009), contemporary narrative theorys relative neglect of
poetry appears not so much an oversight as a scandal, probably due to the
traditional classification of poetic genres into narrative and non-narrative. This
paper claims that lyric poetry is narrative because it tells stories and has its
own arsenal of speaking instances as well as an ability to evoke a global men-
tal representation of the story world as powerful as that of other narratives.
Secondly, considering the central ideas underlying M. Bakhtins original concept
of speech genre, contemporary language genre theory, the conception of
genre formulated by the Russian literary theoretician Vladimir Vakhrushev and
the theory of narrative universals and human emotion developed by American
scholar Patrick C. Hogan, we contemplate the isomorphism of unconscious
social-cultural genres and consciously created literary genres. Genre as gene
and as cognitive structure endows poems with the status of legitimate mem-
bers within the global speech genre system. The mental models of lyric poetry
are universal; what makes it conspicuous is its meter/rhythm counterbalance
and fragmentariness. The theoretical arguments are illustrated with a narrative-
cognitive analysis of samples of lyric poetry.


Zoi TSIVILTIDOU, MA in Cultural Policy & Management
University of Arts in Belgrade / Universit Lumire Lyon II
[email protected] Parallel session, V.26, Room H

Storytelling and Urban Collective Consciousness: An Organic Brew
of Participatory Creativity

This research paper examines the relationship between the art of storytelling
and collective consciousness with respect to the perception of urban space via
participatory creativity. The research aim is to investigate, explore and
(re)define the meaningful bridges between storytelling and intercultural partic-
ipatory creativity in Thessaloniki in Greece. The subject matter is structured
around the concepts of social networks and how ideas spread, empirical, cogni-
tive and social psychology and the geopolitics of emotions, the physiology of
building urban domesticity, the interactive relationship between storytelling
and urban collective consciousness. The elaborated research methods are the
collection and analysis of data and include not only published academic re-
search but also new data from the case study, the Storytelling Project which
took place in August, 2012 in the port of the city of Thessaloniki. My contribu-
tion is twofold. First, cultural policymakers in Greece should embrace storytell-
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ing as an asset in intercultural mediation and second, urban perception and art-
let regeneration should be enhanced by group creativity and interaction. To put
in all in a nutshell, I wholeheartedly hope that there is much to be learnt,
dreamed and earned if we enable, educate and engage people with the storytell-
ing art.


Yoko TSUCHIYAMA, PhD student
EHESS, Paris
[email protected] Parallel session V.26, Room H

Creating Narratives of Cultural Heritage: Reconstructing the Past

In the process of being designated as heritage, phenomena of historical and
cultural importance such as sites, architecture, artefacts and landscapes are
renovated, conserved and placed in new social contexts. In its promotion, the
old is revalorized through political and economic discourse in view of its con-
sumption via the tourism industry. Heritage thus takes on value through a form
of exchange between different times, past and present, and places. With the
change in ownership, there is also a change in the identity and interpretation of
the object. Two issues are at stake here: writing history, on the one hand, and
the political and economic ideologies which underlie the narrative, on the other
hand.
The creation of the narrative of heritage serves at the same time to select and
historicize the past, and through this to set up lines of communication with
contemporary society. There, we can share collective memories or historical
meanings through objects or places as a means for accessing the past. Heritage
can be charged not only with positive value; it may also imply the commemora-
tion of negative events as forms of human experience: wars, terrorism, natural
catastrophes, etc. The narrative functions to transform objects or places into
heritage in combination with educational, touristic and historic values, with the
purpose of attracting our interest.


Jef VAN DER AA, Post-doctoral researcher
Department of Culture Studies, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
[email protected] Parallel session III.16, Room G

Narratology and Youth Care

Greimas and Courts (1976) proposed a model of the semiotic square in
which a particular narrative unit signifies something in relation to its contradic-
tory, its contrary and the contradictory of its contrary. These particular sets of
relations resonate well with the structure found in so-called postponed narra-
tives, where an elaborate story structure has been boiling up in someones
mind for many months or even years before the actual story gets told. Such is
often the case in stories told in institutional settings, where the telling of per-
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sonal trauma is hampered by epistemological frames that prevent what Dell
Hymes (1981) referred to as breakthrough into performance.
This notion reflects a discourse phenomenon in which speakers step unexpect-
edly out of the usual everyday use of language into skilled verbal expression
for the sake of its effect. The institutional frames in which storytelling is una-
voidably located work to establish knowledge that aims to satisfy administra-
tive institutional goals, rather than creating a space for the teller to deal with
psychological and social trauma.
Here I analyze a story in the context of a research in an Antwerp youth care
center. I show how, when one pays attention to relations and patterns of mean-
ing, of which sometimes only glimpses remain visible under pressing frames,
traumatic experiences can be detected more quickly and effectively.


Geert VANDERMEERSCHE, PhD student
Department of Educational Studies, Ghent University, Belgium
[email protected] Parallel session III.16, Room G

A Pedagogical Narratology? Exploring the Narrative Turn in
Educational Studies and Philosophy

Integrating the narrative paradigm into educational studies and teacher educa-
tion, one finds many publications related to the narrative turn (Jerome Bruner,
Kieran Egan, etc). However, specific insights from narratology are often missing.
For instance, work on the narrative structure of lesson preparations (Egan),
reflection reports (Pauw), e-learning (Pachler and Daly) or adult education (Clark
and Rossiter) could benefit from key narratological concepts such as plot (plot-
types and progression), etc. However, the terminology of narratology, when in-
troduced into the educational field, is in need of consolidation. On the other
hand, narratology can gain insights from educational studies and pedagogy,
together with such field as communication, cultural and rhetorical studies, on a
key ethical question confronting narrative scholars: how do we learn from
stories? I will present a case-study, focussing on the implementation of narra-
tive lesson preparations in teacher education, which highlights consensus on
the idea of homo narrans, but also the difficulty of understanding narrative
cognition (planning as a narrative activity) and the need for narratological con-
cepts to guide analysis and practice.



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Veerle VAN STEENHUYSE, PhD student
Department of Literary Studies, Ghent University, Belgium
[email protected] Parallel session IV.20, Room 19

Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice in Cyberspace: Charting the
World-building Practices of Online Fandom

Over the past few decades, storyworlds have become a major object of study in
narrative theory. This wave of scholarship provides a useful starting point for
the textual analysis of Internet fan fiction, which is by definition based on the
storyworlds of antecedent texts. This paper posits that narrative theories on
fictional situations are particularly useful to chart the world-building practices
of online fandom. To support this claim, I will outline the research project I
have been working on since October 2011. This project charts the ways in
which specific memory structures, called narrative frames, influence the world-
building of fans. This is achieved with a comparative study of Jane-Austen-
based fics, and an analysis of reader comments and other meta-texts. The re-
search objective and theoretical framework of my project are grounded in pre-
vious discussions of the storyworld and the experience of immersion (esp. Ryan
2001; Caracciolo 2011; Herman 2002). This investigative framework is enriched,
however, with research into intertextuality (Eco 1979), transmedia storytelling
(Klastrup and Tosca 2004), and fan fiction (including Gwenllian-Jones 2000,
2004; Hills 2002). My research project, then, both consolidates and diversifies
postclassical narratology: it helps to refine the disciplines investigative frame-
work by bringing it to bear on the transmedial, intertextual, and intersubjective
storyworlds of online fan fiction.


Eva VON CONTZEN, PhD
Department of English, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
[email protected] Parallel session III.17, Room H

New Light on Dark Ages: Narratology and the Middle Ages
A Reappraisal

Although narratology has diversified considerably in recent years and become
more inclusive in its objects of study and approaches, one area that still consti-
tutes a blank spot on the map of narratology is medieval literature. While bibli-
cal and classical Greek and Latin literature are well explored narratologically, as
are examples from the seventeenth century onwards, the period in the middle
of literary history is generally underrepresented, if not neglected altogether.
Yet, the Middle Ages have a prolific literary culture, covering a wide range of
narrative modes and structures, the analysis of which has much to offer for
narratologists, especially with regard to authorship and the roles of author and
narrator, the cline of factuality and fictionality, exemplary and allegorical narra-
tion, and character depiction. Drawing on examples from medieval literature
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from the British Isles, I pursue a two-fold approach: in the first part of my pa-
per, I will sketch the problematic status quo of medieval literature and narra-
tology before turning to the desiderata and challenges we face in the twenty-
first century when attempting to fully understand the development and vectors
of the homo narrans, a concept considerably shaped by medieval narration and
narrative.


Dragana VUKIEVI, PhD, Professor
Department of Serbian Literature and South Slavic Literatures, Belgrade Univer-
sity, Serbia
[email protected] Parallel session IV.22, Room F

Hidden Narratives

This paper analyzes hidden narratives which appear in places of prohibition,
often as a kind of contrast to an unhidden story. Unlike shadow narratives
started off and left open (H. P. Abbott), hidden narratives have only recently
drawn critical attention. To activate them, one needs to know the broader con-
text, i.e. historical, ethnological or psychological narratives, for instance.
In realism, examples of hidden narratives are plentiful. Erotic cryptograms, for
example, are hidden narratives related to the sexual life of a hero. They came as
a consequence of restrictive poetic rules in realism that apply when it comes to
the public life of a character. Similarly, the restrictiveness of the repressive
Soviet System forced D. Kharms to hide narratives related to a socio-historical
context behind so-called pure childrens stories.
Hidden narratives will be traced through a range of stories, with special atten-
tion paid to the narrative function of lies, secrecy and silence.


Richard WALSH, Dr
Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, UK
[email protected] Parallel session IV.19, Room B

Narrative and Spatial Modelling: Fictional Worlds Reconsidered

Fictions are commonly understood to produce and refer to fictional worlds, yet
a world in the sense that may be produced is not a referential object but a con-
cept, itself a form of representation quite different from narrative; the reading
of fiction does not involve inference to the global, but only to the contextually
relevant, within the constraints of the cognitive cost of the assumptions adopt-
ed. The fictional text, however, is not in itself essentially narrative; it primarily
cues our narrative sense-making, but narrative interpretation always functions
interdependently with other cognitive faculties such as spatial modelling. These
are mutually informing interpretative paradigms, not the figure and ground
they become in fictional worlds approaches.
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This paper sets out the theoretical argument above and illustrates it by offering
a perverse reading of Robbe-Grillets La Jalousie, a novel that invites spatial in-
terpretation in great detail. It shows that accepting the invitation in this case,
far from supplying the necessary basis for imaginative engagement with the
novel, obscures its fictive rhetoric; its cultivation of an objective spatial model
actually emphasizes narrative perspective and the act of looking, and functions
as a principle of avoidance that both suppresses and foregrounds its point.



Liya WANG, Professor of English Literature
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Beijing Normal University, China
[email protected] Parallel session III.10, Room A

Chinese Postclassical Narratologies: Towards Consolidation or
Diversification?

The study of western postclassical narratologies is a very recent development
in China and requires some conscious effort to learn from western critical ap-
proaches and absorb them into the interpretation of literary texts and theoreti-
cal research. The paper discusses how Chinese narrative theorists draw on
western models or ideas to develop Chinese feminist narratology, Chinese cog-
nitive narratology and Chinese rhetorical narratology. It investigates the rela-
tion between these Chinese approaches and the corresponding western ap-
proaches, exploring in what sense the latter has consolidated the formers aims,
principles or models, and in what ways the latter has enjoyed developments of
its own, thus expanding the scope of or deviating from the latter. The discus-
sion also examines the relation among the Chinese postclassical approaches,
revealing a general picture of diversification in their applied use of western
methods in different contexts, genres and media.


Gian Piero ZARRI, Dr.
LaLIC/STIH Laboratory, Universit Paris-Sorbonne
[email protected]
[email protected]
Parallel session II.9, Room H

A Formal Language for Representing and Managing Narratives on a
Computer

This paper describes some of the methodological principles used to set up
NKRL, the Narrative Knowledge Representation Language. NKRL is both a
representation language and a Computer Science environment for dealing with
narrative information on a computer. A narrative is interpreted as a logically
and temporally connected stream of elementary events (cf. Bals fabula level).
The paper focuses on the representation of these events in computer-usable
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form and on their grouping to represent a full narrative. The notion of tem-
plate as formal representation of a general class of elementary events is then
introduced. Templates are logical structures modelled as associations of triples
formed by a semantic predicate, a functional role, and the argument of the
predicate introduced by the role. A template for expressing a transfer of a
physical object can then be instantiated to represent John gives a book to
Mary as a labelled structure formed of three associated triples, (MOVE (SUB-
Ject JOHN_) (OBJect book_1) (BENeFiciary MARY_)). SUBJ, OBJ and BENF are
roles and the predicate MOVE is common to the three triples. Similarities with
the neo-Davidsonian representations of events are then evident. The paper will
also illustrate how to gather the elementary events into global narratives
through reification operations and how templates and predicate argu-
ments are structured into two separate but synchronized ontologies.


Veronika ZUSEVA-ZKAN, PhD student
Institute for Philology and History, Russian State University for the Humanities,
Moscow
[email protected] Parallel session V.24, Room C

Novel with Authorial Intrusions and the Genesis of Meta-Novel

This paper explores the problem of distinguishing between the novel with au-
thorial intrusions and the meta-novel (or self-conscious novel) in connection
with the genesis of the latter. Metanarrative devices, especially the most ele-
mental, can be found in the earliest forms of the novel. However, it achieves
meta-novel status subject to only one condition: it must be directed at self-
determination and self-knowledge as an aesthetic entity. The question is whe-
ther the novel of antiquity is capable of such deep self-reflection, which re-
quires highly developed differentiating, analytical artistic thinking.
The focus of our attention is Apuleius The Golden Ass and ancient Greek nov-
els, but we also touch upon Byzantine and European early chivalric novels.
The hypothesis is that authorial intrusions in novels of antiquity are related to
the ancient syncretism of author and character as hypostases of the subject (we
rely here on O. Freidenbergs theory about the origin of narrative), and have
little to do with the literary game.
It is only at the end of the phase of reflective traditionalism (in S. Averintsevs
terms) that these intrusions turn into reflection on the novel as an entity, a par-
ticular world which is the conditio sine qua non of the meta-novel.





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