Hühn / Schmid / Schönert Point of View, Perspective, and Focalization

Modeling Mediation in Narrative
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-11-021891-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 17, 311 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: NarratologiaISSN

Stories do not actually exist in the (fictional or factual) world but are constituted, structured and endowed with meaning through the process of mediation, i.e. they are represented and transmitted through systems of verbal, visual or audio-visual signs. The terms usually proposed to describe aspects of mediation, especially perspective, point of view, and focalization, have yet to bring clarity to this field, which is of central importance, not only for narratology but also for literary and media studies. One crucial problem about mediation concerns the dimensions of its modeling effect, particularly the precise status and constellation of the mediating agents, i.e. author, narrator or presenter and characters. The question is how are the structure and the meaning of the story conditioned by these different positions in relation to the mediated happenings perceived from outside and/or inside the storyworld? In this volume, fourteen articles by international scholars from seven different countries address these problems anew from various angles, reviewing the sub-categorization of mediation and re-specifying its dimensions both in literary texts and other media such as drama and theater, film, and computer games.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Institutes, Libraries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hühn, Peter

Schmid, Wolf

Schönert, Jörg

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;5
3;Introduction;7
4;The DNS of Mediacy;17
5;Focalization: Where Do We Go from Here?;47
6;Perspectivization and Focalization: Two Concepts—One Meaning? An Attempt at Conceptual Differentiation;65
7;A Brief Introduction to an Enunciative Approach to Point of View;85
8;Narrative and Stylistic Agency: The Case of Overt Narration;105
9;Beyond Voice and Vision: Cognitive Grammar and Focalization Theory;125
10;Plural Focalization, Singular Voices: Wandering Perspectives in “We”-Narration;149
11;A Comparative Analysis of Indices of Narrative Point of View in Bulgarian and English;169
12;Focalization, the Subject and the Act of Shaping Perspective;189
13;Coming to Our Senses: Narratology and the Visual;207
14;Organizing the Perspectives: Focalization and the Superordinate Narrative System in Drama and Theater;227
15;Focalization, Ocularization and Auricularization in Film and Literature;249
16;Film Narratology: Who Tells? Who Shows? Who Focalizes? Narrative Mediation in Self-Reflexive Fiction Films;265
17;Perspective in Contemporary Computer Games;285

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Hühn, Wolf Schmid and Jörg Schönert, University of Hamburg, Germany.