Narrative Sequence in Contemporary Narratology by Raphaël Baroni, Françoise Revaz

By Raphaël Baroni, Françoise Revaz

Since Aristotle, there was an assumption that narrative is a illustration of activities or sequences of occasions, that this illustration goals to elicit feelings, and that well-formed narratives represent a complete, with a starting, a center, and an finish. the character, function, and relative value of constituent notions like “sequence of occasions” and “plot” were mentioned many times and, for that reason, became fairly slippery. whereas fresh advancements in modern narrative thought, corresponding to unnatural, transmedial, cognitive, and functionalist narratology, shed new gentle on those notions, Narrative series in modern Narratology is going past particular techniques to narrative, illuminating series and plot in all of the variety in their manifestations, kinds, and functions.
This quantity, edited via Raphaël Baroni and Françoise Revaz, comprises contributions from probably the most influential students in narrative stories: Alain Boillat, Peter Hühn, Emma Kafalenos, Franco Passalacqua, James Phelan, Federico Pianzola, John Pier, Gerald Prince, Brian Richardson, Marie-Laure Ryan, Eyal Segal, and Michael Toolan. Essays diversity in concentration from musical narrativity and rhetorical narrative concept to comedian strips and re-examinations of classical and postclassical narratology. all the essays give a contribution clean understandings of foundational options within the box of narratology.

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Translated by Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer. Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1984 (1983), 1985 (1984). Sternberg, Meir. Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana Univ. Press, 1978. ———. ” Narrative 9 (2001): 115–22. indb 35 10/11/15 11:19 AM 36 ∙ C HA P T E R T WO : JOH N PI E R ———. ” Poetics Today 31 (2010): 507–659. ———. ” Poetics Today 13 (1992): 463–541. ———. ” Poetics Today 24 (2003): 517–638.  Vol. 2 of Qu’est-​ce que le structuralisme?

This is because, functionally speaking, “the effect somehow finds or shapes or invents the cause” (“Telling in Time [II]” 529): within the teleological framework in which ends determine or explain means, suspense excites conjecture about “what still lies ahead”; curiosity triggers inferences about “gapped antecedents” in an attempt to “bridge” or “compose” them “in retrospect”; surprise “enforces a corrective reading in late re-​cognition” (“How Narrativity” 117). Nevertheless, it is the case that out of the functionalist critique of narrative sequence there emerges a pattern of linkages that serves as an interface between the actional and the communicative.

Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana Univ. Press, 1978. ———. ” Narrative 9 (2001): 115–22. indb 35 10/11/15 11:19 AM 36 ∙ C HA P T E R T WO : JOH N PI E R ———. ” Poetics Today 31 (2010): 507–659. ———. ” Poetics Today 13 (1992): 463–541. ———. ” Poetics Today 24 (2003): 517–638.  Vol. 2 of Qu’est-​ce que le structuralisme? Paris: Seuil, 1973. Tomachevsky, Boris. “Thematics” (1925). In Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays, translated with an introduction by Lee T. Lemon and Marion J. Reis, 61–98.

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