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This volume presents five variants of the Imdeduya myth: two versions of the actual myth, a short story, a song and John Kasaipwalova’s English poem “Sail the Midnight Sun”. This poem draws heavily on the Trobriand myth which introduces the protagonists Imdeduya and Yolina and reports on Yolina’s intention to marry the girl so famous for her beauty, on his long journey to Imdeduya’s village and on their tragic love story. The texts are compared with each other with a final focus on the clash between orality and scripturality. Contrary to Kasaipwalova’s fixed poetic text, the oral Imdeduya versions reveal the variability characteristic for oral tradition. This variability opens up questions about traditional stability and destabilization of oral literature, especially questions about the changing role of myth – and magic – in the Trobriand Islanders' society which gets more and more integrated into the by now “literal” nation of Papua New Guinea.

Legends --- Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) --- Anthropological linguistics --- Austronesian languages --- Narrative studies --- Linguistics --- Anthropology

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Fictional novelists and other author characters have been a staple of novels and stories from the early nineteenth century onwards. What is it that attracts authors to representing their own kind in fiction? Author Fictions addresses this question from a theoretical and historical perspective. Narrative representations of literary authorship not only reflect the aesthetic convictions and social conditions of their actual authors or their time; they also take an active part in negotiating and shaping these conditions. The book unfolds the history of such 'author fictions' in European and North American texts since the early nineteenth century as a literary history of literary authorship, ranging from the Victorian bildungsroman to contemporary autofiction. It combines rhetorical and sociological approaches to answer the question how literature makes authors. Identifying 'author fictions' as narratives that address the fragile material conditions of literary creation in the actual and symbolic economies of production, Ingo Berensmeyer explores how these texts elaborate and manipulate concepts and models of authorship. This book will be relevant to English, American and comparative literary studies and to anyone interested in the topic of literary authorship.

Authors in literature. --- Authorship in literature. --- Fiction --- History and criticism. --- Authorship in narrative studies. --- Literary sociology. --- Novel since 1800. --- Rhetorical poetics.

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Current Trends in Narratology offers an overview of cutting-edge approaches to theories of storytelling. The introduction details how new emphases on cognitive processing, non-prose and multimedia narratives, and interdisciplinary approaches to narratology have altered how narration, narrative, and narrativity are understood. The volume also introduces a third post-classical direction of research - comparative narratology - and describes how developments in Germany, Israel, and France may be compared with Anglophone research. Leading international scholars including Monika Fludernik, Richard Gerrig, Ansgar Nünning, John Pier, Brian Richardson, Alan Palmer, and Werner Wolf describe not only their newest research but also how this work dovetails with larger narratological developments.

Fiction --- Literary rhetorics --- Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Storytelling. --- 82-3 --- 82-3 Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Storytelling --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Story-telling --- Telling of stories --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Oral interpretation --- Children's stories --- Folklore --- Oral interpretation of fiction --- Rhetoric --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Performance --- 82-3 Fiction. Prose narrative --- Fiction. Prose narrative --- Cognitive Narratology. --- Comparative Narratology. --- Narrative Studies. --- Postclassical Narratology. --- Transmedial Narratology.

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"For the specialist in the study of narrative structure, this is a solid and very perceptive exploration of the issues salient to the telling of a story—whatever the medium. Chatman, whose approach here is at once dualist and structuralist, divides his subject into the 'what' of the narrative (Story) and the 'way' (Discourse). Chatman's command of his material is impressive."—Library Journal

Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film. --- Narrative Structure in Fiction. --- Narrative Structure in Film. --- Roland Barthes. --- art of storytelling. --- character analysis. --- character writing. --- creating a character . --- creative writing. --- different narrators. --- discourse. --- elements of storytelling. --- ethos. --- film writing. --- form of content. --- form of expression. --- how to begin writing. --- how to tell a story. --- how to write a character. --- how to write a film. --- how to write a movie. --- how to write a novel. --- how to write a story. --- how to write character traits. --- how to write plot. --- how to write point of view. --- how to write setting. --- how to write suspense. --- introduction to writing. --- linguistics and semiotics. --- literary criticism. --- literary theory. --- movie criticism. --- movie writing. --- narratee. --- narration in the fiction film. --- narration. --- narrative and poetics. --- narrative discourse. --- narrative fiction. --- narrative inference. --- narrative motivation. --- narrative structure. --- narrative studies. --- narrative theory. --- narrativeology. --- narratology. --- narrators. --- reading for the plot. --- rhetoric of fiction. --- rhetoric. --- storytelling. --- substance of content. --- substance of expression. --- theory of literature. --- theory of plot. --- types of plots. --- typology of plot. --- what are different styles of stories. --- what is a plot. --- what is setting.