Style articles from June 2004

Style archives from June 2004

Introduction.(Narratology)
June 22, 2004... 1. Background and purpose of these issues Theoretical work on literary narrative forms--that is, enquiry about narrative's basic elements or components, constructive principles, structures, techniques, modes of composition, and methods of...

Reader figures in narrative.
June 22, 2004... Various concepts of the reader have gained currency in recent literary criticism and theory. This fact is largely due to the re-evaluation of the role of the real reader. Reception theorists like H. R. Jauss stress that subjective reader...

The "complementary story": outline of a reader-oriented theory of the novel.
June 22, 2004... We are all storytellers, even if we never write a short story or a novel. Every day we make an effort to shape our experience of reality in conversations, reports, and above all, in recollections, whether articulated silently or aloud--we try...

Turning words on the page into "real" people.
June 22, 2004... 1. The Power of Illusion In the wake of an ever-increasing interest in the characters of Shakespeare's plays since the end of the eighteenth century, John Wilson in 1829 made the following statement: "Shakespeare's characters have long...

Unreliable narration and the historical variability of values and norms: the Vicar of Wakefield as a test case of a cultural-historical narratology.
June 22, 2004... "The history of unreliable narrators from Gargantua to Lolita is in fact full of traps for the unsuspecting reader." This statement by Wayne Booth has certainly proved to be an accurate prediction (239). In fact, such a large number of theories...

Bibliography of German narratology.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2004... [Editors' Note] The following bibliography of German narratological work is a selection from a much wider field. The selection criteria have been to include key studies in the field which are frequently referred to in German narratological...