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"This volume is the first to systematically analyze ancient narrative theory in German. The guiding principle is the theory that, although ancient authors like Aristotle were the forerunners of the modern categories of narrative theories, many concepts have been reinterpreted in the course of their reception. It is against this backdrop that this monograph identifies the specific features of ancient narrative theory"-- Provided by Publisher.

Narration (Rhetoric)

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Narrative has been the subject of theoretical reflection and empirical investigation since Aristotle's Poetics. However, with the turn of the millennium, we are witnessing a real narrative turn in the humanities and social sciences. This volume aims to provide an overview of recent developments in the theoretical analysis of narrative, offering the reader a series of contributions that are organized along the following three theoretical-disciplinary axes: theories of narrative at the intersection of cognitive, evolutionary, and computational approaches; narrative theory and cognitive neuroscience; and narrative and storytelling as socio-communicative phenomena.

Narration (Rhetoric) --- Storytelling.

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Keller not only reinterpreted literary genres like the legend but, with the bildungsroman and the novella, also shaped the forms that psychologically gauge the modern subject. These contributions explore Keller's texts as evidence of a "threshold narratology," which eludes epochal attributions. Keller's narrative works are thus revealed as a laboratory of transitory poetics. Der Sammelband, hervorgegangen aus dem Zürcher Jubiläumskongress 2019, erschließt Kellers Erzählwerk als Laboratorium einer transitorischen Poetik. So interpretiert Keller nicht nur aus der Vormoderne überlieferte literarische Gattungen (wie z.B. die Legende) neu, sondern prägt u.a. mit Bildungsroman und Novelle auch diejenigen Formen, in denen das moderne Subjekt psychologisch vermessen wird. Zugleich gelingt es ihm, etwa in den »Züricher Novellen« sowie natürlich in den »Leuten von Seldwyla«, Hetero-, Dys- und Utopien zu entwerfen und durch Realitätsverdoppelungen mögliche Welten zu schaffen, mit denen die Grenzen von Faktualität und Fiktionalität neu verhandelt werden. Es ist dabei gerade das Wechselspiel zwischen der ›Künstlichkeit‹ des Wirklichen und der ›Wirklichkeit‹ von Kunst, in dem Keller sich als moderner Narratologe erweist. Der Systematisierung dieser Erzählkunst gehen die hier versammelten Beiträge nach - und erkunden Kellers Texte als Zeugnisse einer ›Schwellennarratologie‹, die sich epochalen Zuschreibungen entzieht, wo sie nicht diese vielmehr selbst zur Diskussion stellt.

Narration (Rhetoric) --- Modernism (Aesthetics) --- Keller, Gottfried,

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The short story has been a staple of American literature since the nineteenth century, taught in virtually every high school and consistently popular among adult readers. But what makes a short story unique? In Reading for Storyness, Susan Lohafer, former president of the Society for the Study of the Short Story, argues that there is much more than length separating short stories from novels and other works of fiction. With its close readings of stories by Kate Chopin, Julio Cortázar, Katherine Mansfield, and others, this book challenges assumptions about the short story and effectively redefines the genre in a fresh and original way.In her analysis, Lohafer combines traditional literary theory with a more unconventional mode of research, monitoring the reactions of readers as they progress through a story—to establish a new poetics of the genre. Singling out the phenomenon of "imminent closure" as the genre's defining trait, she then proceeds to identify "preclosure points," or places where a given story could end, in order to access hidden layers of the reading experience. She expertly harnesses this theory of preclosure to explore interactions between pedagogy and theory, formalism and cultural studies, fiction and nonfiction. Returning to the roots of storyness, Lohafer illuminates the intricacies of classic short stories and experimental forms of surreal, postmodern, and minimalist fiction. She also discusses the impact of social constructions, such as gender, on the identification of preclosure points by individual readers. Reading for Storyness combines cognitive science with literary theory to present a compelling argument for the uniqueness of the short story.

Narration (Rhetoric) --- Short story. --- Literary theory

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The papers in this volume concern events and narratives from a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives. The first and second papers by Janusz Badio deal with fictional dialogue and the use of stereotypical gender roles in the construal of a story. The chapter by Tomasz Dobrogoszcz analyses the story by A.S. Byatt’s “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye”; Hans Giessen looks at the first European Games held in Baku in 2015. Aleksandr N. Kornev and lngrida Balčiūnienė’s present an experimental study into the verbalisations of causal relations. Krzysztof Kosecki expertly discusses the coding of event structure in the language of the deaf; James Moir analyses career choice narratives. Bartosz Stopel’s interesting article explains the role of Turner’s double-scope blending theory for cognition and emotional response to narratives. Jacek Waliński focuses on fictive motion, whereas Paul Wilson’s deals with human affectivity in conflict scenarios. The article by Magdalena Zabielska is a must to read, too. lt provides an analysis of medical records found in medical journals and treats them as a kind of narratives.

Narration (Rhetoric) --- Medicine --- Psychological aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Language.