Table des matières

John Pier

Introduction

Dieter Meindl

A Model of Narrative Discourse along Pronominal Lines

• I. The proposed model foregrounds the category PERSON
• II. A statement about reality is always in the first person; nevertheless, third-person narrative is a legitimate notion
• III. The registers of illusion and enunciation
• IV. The frame of reference: comment-report-scene-metaphor
• V. The transposition principle
• VI. Modes of conveying speech and thought

Martin Löschnigg

Narratological Categories and the (Non)-Distinction between Factual and Fictional Narratives

• 1. Story and discourse as elementary narratological categories and their applicability to historical narrative
• 2. Time
• 3. Mode
• 4. Voice

Uri Margolin

Story Modalised, or the Grammar of Virtuality

Ansgar F. Nünning

Reconceptualizing the Theory and Generic Scope of Unreliable Narration

• I. A critique of conventional theories of unreliable narration
• II. Reconceptualizing conventional theories of unreliable narration
• III. Reconceptualizing the generic scope of unreliable narration
• IV. Conclusion

Manfred Jahn

More Aspects of Focalisation: Refinements and Applications

• 1. Standard models of focalization
• 2. Aesthetic illusions and windows of focalization
• 3. Four types and a scale of focalization
• 4. Window shifting and deictic diffusion
• Conclusion

Jon-K Adams

Order and Narrative

• Narrative Order
• Chronological Order
• Textual Order

Gordon Collier

Apparent Feature-Anomalies in Subjectivized Third-Person Narration

• Introductory
• Features of subjectivized third-person narration
• Two feature-"anomalies"
• Feature-"anomaly" 1: Gnomic statements
• Feature-"anomaly" 1: Statements in immediate context
• Feature-"anomaly" 2: Character-identification as "modal deixis"
• Feature-"anomaly" 2: Statements in immediate context
• Conclusion

Monika Fludernik

The Genderization of Narrative

• 1. Empirical Testing and its Pitfalls
• 2. Duffy—Garréta—Winterson: The Disguised Male Narrator
• I. Textual clues suggesting the narrator is male
• II. Textual clues suggesting the narrator is female
• III. Textual clues with contradictory or equivocal readings
• 3. A Typology of Gender Clues
• A. Unambiguous linguistic signals
• 1. Proper Names and anaphors
• 2. Agreement and Concordance
• B. Other Textual Clues
• Appendix A
• Appendix B: Summary of "The Bird Cage"

Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth

Parody as a Practice for Postmodernity

John Pier

Three Dimensions of Space in the Narrative Text

Pierre Gault

Rhématique/Thématique, ou les élans de la syntaxe

• CONCLUSION

Notes on Contributors