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This article offers a comparative analysis of Davey Wreden’s ;The Stanley Parable (Wreden 2011 / Galactic Cafe 2013) and The Beginner’s Guide (Everything Unlimited Ltd. 2015) in order to explore the interrelation of authors, narrators, avatars, and players as four salient functions in the play with identity…

Late nineteenth-century France is a place of renewed religious fervor, particularly around the miraculous healings at Lourdes, where sick masses converge in hope of being healed of a wide range of ailments. The same period is also known for its belief in medical and scientific progress, leading to the…

This article explores how illness is narrated on a shared activist Instagram account, where five women share their experiences of living with the chronic disease endometriosis. The day-to-day, multimodal, and collaborative nature of the account is an example of online contemporary illness narratives.…

Jan Horstmann: Theaternarratologie. Ein erzähltheoretisches Analyseverfahren für Theaterinszenierungen. Berlin / New York: de Gruyter 2018 (= Narratologia Bd. 64). 275 S. EUR 89,95. ISBN 978-3-11-059500-0

Mercier’s L’An 2440, published in 1770, marks the beginning of a new Science-Fiction narrative which fundamentally altered the previous order of past, present and future as metaphysically determined temporal dimensions. Its novelty derives from a complex narrative superposition of space and time, forerunning…

Martin Huber / Wolf Schmid (Hg.): Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft. Erzählen. Berlin / Boston, MA: de Gruyter 2017 (= Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft). 659 S. EUR 159,95. ISBN 978-3-11-040118-9

Gerhart Rott: ATTACHMENT AND SEPARATION THEORY IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND STUDENT COUNSELLING This paper stress' the importance of understanding the current interaction of higher education and psychotherapy within students' contextually defined environment. This environment doesn't mirror an objective point…

Comics journalism is a form of narrative journalism, but also plays a part in a much wider movement – the hybridization of cultural products – and the increasing blurring of the boundaries between fact and fiction. It presents itself as a way to inject new life into a profession currently in crisis by…