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Literary and Cultural Studies (Subject) / Narrative (Lesson)
- Kinds of Narrative - Novel "A term now applied to a great variety of writings that have in common only the attribute of being extended works of fiction written in prose" (Novel, Glossary) "typically representing character and action (Novel, Oxford) etymology: Italian novella 'fictional prose narrative of variable length'
- Kinds of Narrative - Short Story a brief work of prose fiction, differing from a novel by its limitation of length and hence by lacking a novel's "magnitude" Edgar Allan Poe: a "prose tale" can be read ar one sitting from half an hour to two hours and is limited to a "certain uniwur or single effect" subdivided into story of incident and story of character
- Kinds of Narrative - Novella "a short novel, a long short story" (Novella, Oxford) popular especiall amongst German writers and consequently critics and theorists
- Definition of Narrative According to Fludernik: traditionally narrated by a narrator mediating the story representations of possible worlds linguistic and/or visual medium (traditionally verbal) several protagonists of anthropomorphic nature action and plot structure focus on experience of the protagonists
- Narratology Fludernik: "the study of narrative as a genre [..] to describe constants, variables and combinations, the attempt to study the nature of the 'story itself'"
- Story Oriented Narratology story= content of the narrative concerned with the structure and the content of the story focus on action, characters, plot and setting
- Discourse Oriented Narratology discourse = mediation if the narrative (Genette) concerned with how the narrative is transmitted-narrative perspective narrative situation (Stanzel) focus on: the way characters, events, plot elements or psychological elements aee mediated or presented
- Story-Oriented Narratology - Possible Focus: Setting definition: fictional places which provide topological determination to events and states represented in the storyworld important questions: Described by the narrator or filtered through the eyes of a character? Semanticization and functionalization of speech? Spatial opposites? Spatial representations are often ideologically/emotionally charged constructs
- Story-Oriented Narratology - Possible Focus: Characters definition: entity, individual or collective introduced in a work of narrative fiction Important questions: highly individualized or mere types? static or dynamic? flat or round? who characterizes whom? Possible approaches: looking at characterization and traits looking for correspondences and contrasts drawing character constellations
- Story-Oriented Narratology - Possible Focus: Setting important concepts: dimensions paths (literal and metaphorical) portals (concept of transition) container (concept of inside and outside) function of space (Hoffmann): mood-invested space (expressive, atmospheric, symbolic) space of action (context for action) observed space (static, panoramic overview)
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