Contemporary French and Francophone Narratology

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INTRODUCTION / by JOHN PIER
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CHAPTER 1 · Pragmatics in Classical French Narratology and Beyond by RAPHAËL BARONI
	1. OBJECTIVIST VERSUS FUNCTIONALIST PERSPECTIVES
	2. FUNCTIONALIST CONCEPTIONS IN FRENCH STRUCTURALIST THEORY AND BEYOND
	3. WHY NOT LOOK AFTER NARRATIVE INTEREST?
	4. FRENCH NARRATOLOGY AFTER THE CLASSICS
	5. NARRATIVE TENSION BEYOND POPULAR STORYTELLING?
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CHAPTER 2 · No-Narrator Theories/Optional-Narrator Theories: Recent Proposals and Continuing Problems by SYLVIE PATRON
	1. A SURVEY OF RECENT PROPOSALS
		1.1. Terminology
		1.2. Second Generation Optional-Narrator Theorists
		1.3. Arguments in Favor of Optional-Narrator Theory
		1.4. Other (Positive) Arguments
	2. A GENERAL LACK OF HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
		2.1. The Horizon of Retrospection
		2.2. History of the Concept of the Narrator
		2.3. The Historical Argument
	3. TOWARD A HISTORY OF CONCEPTS IN NARRATIVE THEORY
		3.1. Principles
		3.2. The Narrative Model in Historiography
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CHAPTER 3 · Narration outside Narrative by RICHARD SAINT-GELAIS
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CHAPTER 4 · Narrator on Stage: Not a Condition but a Component for a Postdramatic Narrative Discourse by BENOÎT HENNAUT
	1. THEATER AS A VALID OBJECT FOR NARRATOLOGICAL STUDY
	2. BEYOND THE NARRATORIAL CONDITION
	3. PERFORMANCE AS AUTONOMOUS DISCOURSE
	4. THE NARRATOR AS A STYLISTIC DEVICE
	5. CONCLUSION
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CHAPTER 5 ·The Poetics of Suspended Narrative by FRANÇOISE REVAZ
	1. SUSPENDED NARRATIVE: FROM SERIAL NOVEL TO MEDIA SAGA
	2. MULTILEVEL TEMPORAL SUSPENSION
	3. A FRAGMENTED WHOLE
	4. A COHERENT WHOLE
		4.1. Boundary Lines
		4.2. Semantic Unity
	5. A SUCCESSION OF EPISODES: BETWEEN OPENING AND CLOSURE
		5.1. The Opening of an Episode
		5.2. The Closure of an Episode
	6. SERIAL OR SERIES?
	7. SUSPENDED NARRATIVE: A TRANSMEDIAL GENRE
	8. CONCLUSION
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CHAPTER 6 · Discourse Analysis and Narrative Theory: A French Perspective by JOHN PIER
	1. FROM STRUCTURE TO DISCOURSE
	2. BEYOND THE SENTENCE
	3. TEXT AND DISCOURSE
	4. LANGUE VERSUS PAROLE?
	5. THE MEDIATING ROLE OF ENUNCIATION
		5.1. Benveniste
		5.2. Bakhtin
	6. SPEECH GENRES IN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
	7. CONSTITUENCE AND SCENE OF ENUNCIATION
		7.1. Three Scenes
		7.2 A Scenography
		7.3 Modes of Genericity
	8. CONCLUSION
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CHAPTER 7 · Regimes of Immanence, between Narratology and Narrativity by DENIS BERTRAND
	1. INTRODUCTION
	2. FROM NARRATOLOGY IN THE STRICT SENSE TO GENERALIZED NARRATIVITY
	3. THE QUESTION OF IMMANENCE AT THE CROSSROADS OF NARRATOLOGY AND NARRATIVITY
	4. FROM THE “PRINCIPLE OF IMMANENCE” TO “PLANES OF IMMANENCE”
	5. TOWARD REGIMES OF IMMANENCE
	6. DON QUIXOTE, OR: IS IT POSSIBLE TO ESCAPE NARRATIVITY?
	7. CONCLUSION
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CHAPTER 8 · Fiction, Expanded and Updated by OLIVIER CAÏRA
	1. INTRODUCTION: THE NOTEBOOK EXPERIMENT
	2. EXPANDING THE RANGE OF FICTIONAL OBJECTS
	3. NONMIMETIC FICTION AND SIMULATION GAMES
	4. FICTIONAL AS OPPOSED TO DOCUMENTARY COMMUNICATION
	5. DEFINING FICTION
	6. THE SIMPLICITY AND COMPLEXITY OF FICTIONAL FRAMING
	7. BENEATH AND BEYOND THE FICTIONAL CONTRACT
	8. CONCLUSION: ENRICHING NARRATOLOGY
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CHAPTER 9 · Narratology and the Test of Greek Myths: The Poetic Birth of a Colonial City by CLAUDE CALAME
	1. MYTH AND NARRATIVE FORMS
	2. A SEMIO-NARRATIVE APPROACH OPEN TO PRAGMATICS
	3. A COMPLEX NARRATIVE AND TEMPORAL ARIADNE’S THREAD: PINDAR’S FOURTH PYTHIAN
	4. NARRATIVE DIVERGENCES AND TENSIONS
	5. A SEMANTIC LABYRINTH: ISOTOPIES AND METAPHORS
		5.1. Productivity of the Soil and “Mother” City
		5.2. A “Myth” of Autochthony
	6. THE TRIAD OF FOUNDING GODS
	7. SEMANTIC REVERBERATIONS OF THE SONG: PRAGMATICS
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CHAPTER 10 · Policing Literary Theory: Toward a Collaborative Ethics of Research? by FRANÇOISE LAVOCAT
	1. LITERARY THEORISTS AS SERIAL KILLERS
	2. RISE AND FALL OF “LITERARY THEORY”
	3. THE RESEARCH POLICE
	4. NARRATOLOGY AND LITERARY THEORY: PARALLEL PATHS?
	5. THE EXAMPLE OF NARRATOLOGY: TOWARD A MORE COLLABORATIVE AND SHAREABLE LITERARY THEORY
	6. CONCLUSION
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