Current Trends in Narrative Theory: International Perspectives

1. Current Trends in Narrative Theory: International Perspectives April 29, 2008

2. Conversational Thematics and Rhetorical Force in Narrative Fiction" • Anniken Greve • Department of Culture and Literature • Faculty of Humanities • University of Tromso, Norway • anniken.greve@hum.uit.no

3. Unreliable Narration between Authors’ Intentions • and Readers’ Cognitive Strategies • Current Trends in Narrative Theory: • International Perspectives • Project Narrative, Ohio State University • April 29, 2008 • Per Krogh Hansen • University of Southern Denmark

4. Wayne Booth: • “For lack of better terms, I have called a narrator reliable when he speaks for or acts in accordance with the norms of the work (which is to say, the implied author’s norms), unreliable when he does not. (Booth 1991 [1961]: 158f)”

5. Wayne Booth: • “For lack of better terms, I have called a narrator reliable when he speaks for or acts in accordance with the norms of the work (which is to say, the implied author’s norms), unreliable when he does not. (Booth 1991 [1961]: 158f)” • James Phelan, on unreliable narration: • “Narration in which the narrator’s reporting, reading (or interpreting), and/or regarding (or evaluating) are not in accord with the implied author’s.” (Phelan 2005: 219)

6. The rhetoricians… restricts the use of the concept to fiction brings the reader’s role out of focus

8. The rhetoricians… restricts the use of the concept to fiction brings the reader’s role out of focus Unreliable narration is… more flexible than the rhetoricians seem to acknowledge primarily a diegetic issue historically and culturally variable. Implied author is… in general only relevant to include if becoming visual as a narrative agent

9. Four forms of unreliable narration • Intranarrational unreliability • Internarrational unreliability • Intertextual unreliability • Extratextual unreliability

10. Communication in unreliable narration

11. dreaming and narrative theory two stages: the case for viewing dreams as narrative, rather than hallucinatory experience the consequences, if so, for narrative theory two approaches not pursued Richard Walsh Dennett against dream experiences Freud’s view of the dreamwork as representational discourse

12. dreams in the cognitive sciences psychological accounts v. physiological accounts: David Foulkes: operation of reflective consciousness in sleep Alan Hobson: activation-synthesis model of sleeping brain states restriction of the cognitive dimension of dreaming Peirce and the percept as sign dreams compared to memories

13. percepts dream percepts memories dreams narrative fictive representational the relations between perceptions, memories and dreams

14. the relations between perceptions, memories and dreams percepts dream percepts memories dreams narrative fictive representational

15. the relations between perceptions, memories and dreams percepts dream percepts memories dreams narrative fictive representational

16. the relations between perceptions, memories and dreams percepts dream percepts memories dreams narrative fictive representational

17. the relations between perceptions, memories and dreams percepts dream percepts memories dreams narrative fictive representational

18. the self in dreams tension between the “I” who experiences dream events and the “I” who produces the dream reflective consciousness in lucid dreaming narrative immersion contrasted with immersion in a simulation

19. consequences for narrative theory fictionality narrativity story and discourse the narrator voice medium narrative creativity affective response

20. Distributed Cognition(Cog Sci Talk) Copes with the UnsaturatableContext (Poststructuralist Talk) Ellen Spolsky Bar-Ilan University

21. Held and Hein’s cats

22. Pablo Picasso First Steps

23. Dove’s nest in cactus

24. Pitcher

25. Picasso, Skull and Pitcher

26. Othello and Desdemona

27. Nimrud Lion Colossus

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