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Review of Astrid Ensslin and Alice Bell: Digital Fiction and the Unnatural. Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2021. (= Theory and Interpretation of Narrative) 218 pp. USD 79.95. ISBN: 978-0-8142-1456-5

Rezension zu Michael Niehaus: Erzählen ohne Worte. Eine Erkundung. Hagen: Hagen UP/ Georg Olms Verlag 2022 (= Schriften zur Literatur- und Medienwissenschaft, Bd.5), 439 S. EUR 39,80. ISBN 9783487162003t

The article discusses the role of finiteness in sentence structure and its implications for their interpretation of narratives. Finite, infinite, and semi-finite sentence structures are analysed with regard to their ability to speak ‘about’ something. Only finite constructions allow this. The inflectional…

In her influential book on narrative immersion (2015 [2001]), Marie-Laure Ryan discusses a number of narrative strategies facilitating immersion. Apart from the present tense and direct or free indirect speech, these narrative strategies are all of a narratological rather than linguistic nature. Building…

The article fleshes out the concept of lyric narration in the depiction of memories by suggesting that Ronald W. Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar offers a helpful framework for understanding how lyric narration operates on spatiality. Expanding from Werner Wolf’s (2005, 2020) idea of the lyric as a cognitive…

Rezension zu: Berger, Stefan / Brauch, Nicola / Lorenz, Chris: Analysing Historical Narratives. On Academic, Popular and Educational Framings of the Past. New York, NY / Oxford: Berghahn, 2021. 356 pp. USD 145.00. ISBN 978-1-80073-046-5

This article presents the results of two studies examining the effects of different narrative situations on the interpretation of free indirect discourse (FID). Our test items featured either a neutral heterodiegetic narrator, a homodiegetic narrator, or an evaluative heterodiegetic narrator. Participants…

The article aims to show how escalation narratives in contemporary German literature dissect the dynamics of violence in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by dealing with outbreaks of violence and making visible hidden forms of violence, both in the modes of latency and drastic depiction. Whereas…

Videotaped oral history interviews are used to investigate how contemporary witnesses from Nazi concentration and labor camps narrate their experiences of violence. Our analysis focuses on representations of experiences of violence that are not purely psychophysical in nature but reveal other aspects…

In this “The Shape of Things to Come” interview, Marco Caracciolo provides insights into his current project on narrative complexity and its implications. He also discusses the value of collaboration and interdisciplinarity for the future of narrative research, and empirical approaches to narrative in…