Recently added articles from Narrative:
Immersions in the cognitive sublime: the textual experience of the extratextual unknown in Garcia Marquez and Beckett.(Critical essay)
May 01, 2009; ... In the work on narrative difficulty over the last hundred years, much of the energy has gone into two contrasting conditions of reader resistance, the defamiliarized and the veiled. The first is most famously associated with Viktor Shldovsky, who gave us the ur-concept of plot (syuzhet) as ...
The return of omniscience in contemporary fiction.(Critical essay)
May 01, 2009; ... I want to begin this essay by pointing out what I think has become a salient feature, or at least significant trend, in contemporary British and American literary fiction: namely, a prominent reappearance of the ostensibly outmoded omniscient narrator. In the last two decades, and ...
Lost in the gutter: within and between frames in narrative and narrative theory.(Critical essay)
May 01, 2009; ... One of the most difficult and confusing of narratological concepts is that of the "narrative frame." While numerous studies refer to and examine the frame, its definition remains somewhat elusive. The central reason for this is the sheer quantity of concepts and ideas to which this ...
Beyond the frame: cognitive science, common sense and fiction.(Critical essay)
May 01, 2009; ... According to popular definition, the subject matter of fiction is invention, whereas nonfiction relies on factual ("real-world") data. Recent developments in cognitive narratology (Ryan, Fludernik, Jahn, Herman) considerably reduce the value of sharp distinction between fiction and ...
The morphing metaphor and the question of narrative voice.(Critical essay)
May 01, 2009; ... Over the last two decades, the advent of new narrative media has forced many in the field of narratology to grapple with the continuing questions and adjustments raised by such unconventional forms of story-telling. Among the leaders in this charge, Marie-Laure Ryan has worked to delineate ...