Theorizing Narrativity more

THEORIZING NARRATIVITY is a collective work by an international array of leading specialists in narrative theory. It provides new perspectives on the nature of narrative, genre theory, narrative semiotics and communication theory. Most contributions center on the specificity of literary fiction, but each chapter investigates a different dimension of narrativity with many issues dealt with in innovative ways (including oral storytelling, the law, video games, causality, intertextuality and the theory of reading). There are chapters by Gerald Prince on narrativehood and narrativity, Meir Sternberg on the narrativity of the law-code, Werner Wolf on chance and Peter Hühn on eventfulness in fiction, Jukka Tyrkkö on kaleidoscope narratives, Marie-Laure Ryan on transfictionality and computer games, Ansgar Nünning and Roy Sommer as well as Monika Fludernik on the narrativity of drama, Beatriz Penas on (non)standard narrativities, David Rudrum on narrativity and performativity, Michael Toolan on textual guidance, John Pier on causality and retrospection, and José Ángel García Landa on retelling and represented narrations.

Contents:

John Pier and José Ángel García Landa
Introduction

Gerald Prince
Narrrativehood, Narrativeness, Narrativity, Narratibility

Meir Sternberg
If-Plots: Narrativity and the Law-Code

Werner Wolf
Chance in Fiction as a Privileged Index of Implied Worldviews:
A Contribution to the World-Modelling Functions of Narrative Fiction

Peter Hühn
Functions and Forms of Eventfulness in Narrative Fiction

Jukka Tyrkkö
‘Kaleidoscope’ Narratives and the Act of Reading

Marie-Laure Ryan
Transfictionality Across Media

Ansgar Nünning and Roy Sommer
Diegetic and Mimetic Narrativity: Some further Steps towards a Transgeneric Narratology of Drama

Monika Fludernik
Narrative and Drama

Beatriz Penas Ibáñez
A Pragma-stylistic Contribution to the Study of Narrativity:
Standard versus Non-standard Narrativities

David Rudrum
Narrativity and Performativity: From Cervantes to Star Trek

Michael Toolan
The Language of Guidance

John Pier
After this, therefore because of this

José Ángel García Landa
Narrating Narrating: Twisting the Twice-Told Tale