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Given that recently-developed commercial large language model products have been called the ‘heirs to structuralism,’ this article reports on how two such products, whether specifically designed to ‘tell stories’ (Squibler) or not (ChatGPT) generate text from ‘kernel simple stories,’ ‘minimal stories,’…

This article explores the role of narrative in and for medieval prayers and devotions. Challenging the assumption that such texts fall outside the scope of narratological inquiry, I show how medieval theological works typically conceptualize prayer as including a constitutive narrative element embedded…

This paper addresses the possibilities of a cross-generic application of narratology to lyric poetry by contrasting the macro-genres of narrative fiction and lyric poetry on a high level of abstraction as acts of communication in the medium of writing, distinguished by formal and thematic restrictions.…

In A History of the Grandparents I Never Had Ivan Jablonka examines the narrative of his grandparents and reflects on the possibilities and limits of historical knowledge. Two years later, in History is a Contemporary Literature, he continues his thinking on ‘investigative writing’ and endorses ‘the…

Review of: Lucia Boldrini / Laura Cernat / Alexandre Gefen / Michael Lackey (eds.): The Routledge Companion to Biofiction. London / New York, NY: Routledge 2025 (= Routledge Literature Companions), pp. 570. USD 300.00. ISBN 978-1-032-52617-1 (hard cover)

Wissenschaftliche Institutionen stellen Organisationsstrukturen der Wissensreproduktion und -produktion dar. Innerhalb dieser Strukturen können sie Wissenschaftlern Möglichkeiten des Forschens bieten. Im Idealfall wird deren Forschung institutionell gefördert durch das Bereitstellen von organisatorischen…

Recent years have seen the appearance of numerous lexica and handbooks devoted to general narratological questions which collect contributions from different disciplines. What are the strengths and weaknesses of these books (each of which is aimed at a large readership)? What kind of knowledge is archived,…

Die Untersuchung von Gregory Currie widmet sich im Wesentlichen drei Themenkomplexen. Der erste Komplex, behandelt in den ersten drei Kapiteln, ist die Frage nach dem Wesenskern von Erzählungen, nach den spezifischen Differenzierungskriterien, durch die sich Erzählungen von anderen sprachli-chen oder…

Protests against the Corona policy have been widespread since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the causes and patterns as well as the structures and dynamics of this political protest remain unclear. From a political science perspective, this article focuses on the everyday narrative processes…

During the Covid-19 crisis, participatory, co-creative narrative projects emerged which tried to open spaces for coping with the experiences of the pandemic. Digital networked media offered a means not only to document and archive everyday stories, but also to create virtual communities. This article…