Narrative As Communication (Theory and History of Literature)

Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 19
1. The Nature and Purpose of Narratology......Page 24
The Preconditions of a Narratology......Page 25
A Tale of the Paradoxes of Telling......Page 29
The Day History Ran out of Time......Page 36
2. The Structure and Formation of Narrative Meaning......Page 54
The Structure of Narrative Utterances......Page 57
A Transformational Model of the Kinds of Predication......Page 68
From Narrateme to Narrative Significance......Page 80
3. Narrative and Verbal Art: Literariness in Communication......Page 92
A Critique of Noncommunicative and Self-Oriented Notions of Literature......Page 93
A Model for (artistic) Communication......Page 99
Toward an Operational Definition of Literariness......Page 104
Operations of Literariness......Page 108
4. A Manmade Universe? or, The Question of Fictionality......Page 118
First Prize: Meet the Character of Your Choice......Page 119
Polyreference and Comparatio......Page 126
Genres of Fictionality......Page 135
Three Brief Examples......Page 141
Final Remarks......Page 151
Doing Something and Being Somebody: Actants and Actors......Page 155
Doing or Having Something Done to You: Agents and Patients......Page 158
Ways of Being Involved in Narrative......Page 160
Agents and Unity of Narrative......Page 177
6. Voices: Knowing, Telling, and Showing It or Not......Page 185
Narrators......Page 186
Points of View and Information......Page 198
Enunciation and Information in a Fairy Tale......Page 204
Dialogic Enunciation......Page 209
7. Binding and Unfolding: on Narrative Syntax......Page 227
The Principles of Narrative Syntax......Page 228
Textual Memory: The Syntax of The Recognitions......Page 248
Open and Covert Discursive Articulations in Dante\'s Vita Nuova......Page 252
General Economy and Textual Economy......Page 260
Materials, Transformation, and Production of Narrative......Page 263
Transformation, Displacement, and Profits of Meaning......Page 267
The Reality of Genre......Page 273
\"Formal\" Typologies and the Frontiers of Narrative......Page 280
Narrative in a Discourse of Truth: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Historiography......Page 290
Narrative through Nonlinguistic Media......Page 296
The Didactic Construction of Meaning......Page 318
Soft Didacticism; or, the Deliberation of Desire......Page 325
Authority and the Play of Exchange......Page 330
Family Romance and Other Exemplary Narratives......Page 336
Self-limitation, Self-Generation, Self-Destructive Teaching, and Other Related Problems for Further Investigation......Page 350
Notes......Page 356
Bibliography......Page 368
Index......Page 380
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R......Page 389
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Z......Page 391