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Daniel Stein / Jan-Noёl Thon (Hg.): From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels. Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter 2013 (= Narratologia Bd. 37). 416 S. EUR 99,95. ISBN 978-3-11-028202-3

This essay uses Lauren Groff’s 2011 short story “Above and Below” to explore aspects of a narratology beyond the human, considering how ideas developed by scholars of narrative bear on questions about the nature and scope of human-animal relationships in the larger biosphere. Bringing Groff’s text into…

Gary Johnson: The Vitality of Allegory. Figural Narrative in Modern and Contempo-rary Fiction. Columbus: Ohio State University Press 2012. 296 pp. Hardcover USD 41.95. ISBN 978-0814211823

Brigitte Boothe: Das Narrativ. Biografisches Erzählen im psychotherapeutischen Prozess. Mit einem Geleitwort von Jörg Frommer. Stuttgart: Schattauer 2011. 260 S. EUR 36,99. ISBN 978-3-7945-2801-1

The article discusses forms of narrative orientation, both towards the ending of a narrative and governed by it. Prevalent in pre-modern fiction is a specific kind of motivation, which the German scholar Clemens Lugowski called ‘motivation from behind’. This kind of motivation operates on the level of…

The article attempts to make postclassical narrative theory productive for an analysis of characters in vernacular novels from the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Viewing medieval characters as well as medieval mental constructs as modern, it focuses on the processes whereby characters are constituted…

Narratology is often considered to be an invention of the 20th century. This is based on the assumption that the focus of poetic theory prior to narratology was limited to specific genres, whereas narratology takes ‘narration’ as a transgeneric phenomenon. In contrast, this essay aims to show that, since…

Tagungsbericht zu „Relevance and Narrative (Research) – An International Symposium“, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 30.09.-02.10.2014

Hartmut Bleumer / Caroline Emmelius (Hg.): Lyrische Narrationen – narrative Lyrik. Gattungsinterferenzen in der mittelalterlichen Literatur. Berlin / New York: Walter de Gruyter 2011 (= Trends in Medieval Philology Vol. 16). 404 S. EUR 139,95. ISBN 978-3-11-021593-9

Jan Alber / Henrik Skov Nielsen / Brian Richardson (Eds.): A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative. Columbus: Ohio State University Press 2013. Pp. 234. GBP 63.95 (cloth), GBP 14.95 (cd). ISBN 978-0-8142-1228-8 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-8142-9330-0 (cd)