Hansen / Iversen / Skov Nielsen Strange Voices in Narrative Fiction

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-026864-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 30, 274 Seiten

Reihe: Narratologia

From its beginnings narratology has incorporated a communicative model of literary narratives, considering these as simulations of natural, oral acts of communication. This approach, however, has had some problems with accounting for the strangeness and anomalies of modern and postmodern narratives. As many skeptics have shown, not even classical realism conforms to the standard set by oral or ‘natural’ storytelling. Thus, an urge to confront narratology with the difficult task of reconsidering a most basic premise in its theoretical and analytical endeavors has, for some time, been undeniable.

During the 2000s, Nordic narratologists have been among the most active and insistent critics of the communicative model. They share a marked skepticism towards the idea of using ‘natural’ narratives as a model for understanding and interpreting all kinds of narratives, and for all of them, the distinction of fiction is of vital importance.

This anthology presents a collection of new articles that deal with strange narratives, narratives of the strange, or, more generally, with the strangeness of fiction, and even with some strange aspects of narratology.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and Students (Literary Studies, Narratology), Libraries; Departments

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hansen, Per Krogh

Iversen, Stefan

Skov Nielsen, Henrik

Reitan, Rolf

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Introduction;7
2;Homonymy, Polysemy and Synonymy: Reflections on the Notion of Voice;19
3;‘Alternate Strains are to the Muses dear: The Oddness of Genette’s Voice in Narrative Discourse;43
4;Fictional Voices? Strange Voices? Unnatural Voices?;61
5;Significant Deviations: Strange Uses of Voice are one among other Means of Meaning Making;89
6;How Strange Are the “Strange Voices” of Fiction?;107
7;States of Exception: Decoupling, Metarepresentation, and Strange Voices in Narrative Fiction;133
8;Theorizing Second-Person Narratives: A Backwater Project?;153
9;Toward a Typology of Virtual Narrative Voices;181
10;Masters of interiority: Figural voices as discursive appropriators and as loopholes in narrative communication;197
11;The Fifth Mode of Representation: Ambiguous Voices in Unreliable Third Person Narration;225
12;Unnatural Voices in Ulysses;259
13;Index;271

Über Autor(innen)

Per Krogh Hansen, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding, Denmark; Stefan Iversen, Henrik Skov Nielsen and Rolf Reitan, Aarhus University, Denmark.