Narratology in the Age of Cross-Disciplinary Narrative Research / / ed. by Sandra Heinen, Roy Sommer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Erll, Astrid,; Fludernik, Monika,; Hallet, Wolfgang,; Heinen, Sandra,; Herman, David,; Horstkotte, Silke,; Kindt, Tom,; Lippert, Julia,; Mauz, Andreas,; Meelberg, Vincent,; Nünning, Ansgar,; Pettersson, Bo,; Sommer, Roy,; Verstraten, Peter,; Weilnböck, Harald,
• HerausgeberIn: Heinen, Sandra,; Sommer, Roy,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Narratologia : Contributions to Narrative Theory , 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (309 p.)

Die Erzählforschung hat sich seit den 1990er Jahren als ein internationales und interdisziplinäres Forschungsfeld etabliert. Die Beiträge des Bandes setzen sich aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven (u.a. Literaturwissenschaft, Kognitionstheorie, Kreativitätsforschung, Metaphern-, Film- und Medientheorien, Musikwissenschaft, Theologie und Psychologie) mit dem aktuellen Stand der Narratologie sowie diversen narrativen Phänomenen auseinander. Sie leisten einen wichtigen Beitrag zu der anhaltenden Debatte um die Formen der Kooperation zwischen den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften.

Narrative Research, once the domain of structuralist literary theory, has over the last 15 years developed into an international and interdisciplinary field. It is now commonly agreed that storytelling functions as a fundamental cognitive tool for sense-making and meaning production, and that human beings structure and communicate lived experience through oral, written and visual stories. Entitled Narratology in the Age of Cross-Disciplinary Narrative Research, this volume collects fifteen essays which look at narrative and narrativity from various perspectives, including literary studies and hermeneutics, cognitive theory and creativity research, metaphor studies, film theory and intermediality, as well as memory studies, musicology, theology and psychology. The topics touch on a wide range of issues, such as the current state of narratology and its potential for development, narrativity in visual and auditive art forms, the cultural functions of narrative, and the role of narrative concepts across the disciplines. The volume introduces interested newcomers to the ongoing debate, reflecting the diversity of research questions and methodological approaches involved. It takes a critical, yet cautiously optimistic stance with regard to the potential for interdisciplinary collaboration between narrative researchers, and invites experienced readers from any discipline interested in narrative to join this important debate, which promotes the exchange of ideas, concepts and methods between the humanities and the social sciences.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Narratology and Interdisciplinarity -- Narratology and Hermeneutics: Forging the Missing Link -- Narratological Expansionism and Its Discontents -- Surveying Contextualist and Cultural Narratologies: Towards an Outline of Approaches, Concepts and Potentials -- Narrative Ways of Worldmaking -- Making Narrative Worlds: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Literary Storytelling -- The Cage Metaphor: Extending Narratology into Corpus Studies and Opening it to the Analysis of Imagery -- The Multimodal Novel. The Integration of Modes and Media in Novelistic Narration -- Between Attraction and Story: Rethinking Narrativity in Cinema -- Seeing or Speaking: Visual Narratology and Focalization, Literature to Film -- The Role of Narratology in Narrative Research across the Disciplines -- Narratology and Cultural Memory Studies -- A “Natural” Reading of Historiographical Texts: George III at Kew -- Sounds Like a Story: Narrative Travelling from Literature to Music and Beyond -- Theology and Narration: Reflections on the “Narrative Theology”-Debate and Beyond -- Toward a New Interdisciplinarity: Integrating Psychological and Humanities Approaches to Narrative