Neverending Stories: Toward a Critical Narratology

Published by Princeton University Press 1991

Neverending Stories

Toward a Critical Narratology

Edited by: Ann Fehn , Ingeborg Hoesterey and Maria Tatar

Volume 1209 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400862221

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In these compelling new essays, leading critics sharpen our understanding of the narrative structures that convey meaning in fiction, taking as their point of departure the narratological positions of Dorrit Cohn, Grard Genette, and Franz Stanzel. This collection demonstrates how narratology, with its attention to the modalities of presenting consciousness, offers a point of entry for scholars investigating the socio-cultural dimensions of literary representations. Drawing from a wide range of literary texts, the essays explore the borderline between fiction and history; explain how characters are constructed by both author and reader through the narration of consciousness; show how gender shapes narrative strategies ranging from the depiction of consciousness through intertextuality to the representation of the body; address issues of contingency in narrative; and present a debate on the crucial function of person in the literary text. The contributors are Stanley Corngold, Gail Finney, Kte Hamburger, Paul Michael Ltzeler, David Mickelsen, John Neubauer, Thomas Pavel, Jens Rieckmann, Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, Judith Ryan, Franz Stanzel, Susan Suleiman, Maria Tatar, David Wellbery, and Larry Wolff.

Originally published in 1991.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Introduction Ingeborg Hoesterey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART ONE: HISTORY, FICTION, AND THE CLAIMS OF WRITING: THE AUTO/BIOGRAPHICAL MODE
ONE. Between History and Fiction: On Dorrit Cohn’s Poetics of Prose Thomas Pavel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
TWO. Fictionality in Historiography and the Novel Paul Michael Lützeler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
THREE. Fictionality, Historicity, and Textual Authority: Pater, Woolf, Hildesheimer Judith Ryan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
FOUR. Mocking a Mock-Biography: Steven Millhauser’s Edwin Mullhouse and Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus Jens Rieckmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
FIVE. Habsburg Letters: The Disciplinary Dynamics of Epistolary Narrative in the Correspondence of Maria Theresa and Marie Antoinette Larry Wolff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
SIX. Authenticity as Mask: Wolfgang Hildesheimer’s Marbot Käte Hamburger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
PART TWO: THE SUBJECT IN QUESTION: THE NARRATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
SEVEN. Interpretive Strategies, Interior Monologues Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
EIGHT. Consonant and Dissonant Closure in Death in Venice and The Dead Franz K. Stanzel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
NINE. Identity by Metaphors: A Portrait of the Artist and Tonio Kröger John Neubauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
TEN. Patterns of Justification in Young Törless Stanley Corngold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
PART THREE: GENDER, DIFFERENCE, AND NARRATION
ELEVEN. Crossing the Gender Wall: Narrative Strategies in GDR Fictions of Sexual Metamorphosis Gail Finney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
TWELVE. Feminist Intertextuality and the Laugh of the Mother: Leonora Carrington’s Hearing Trumpet Susan Rubin Suleiman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
THIRTEEN. Telling Differences: Parents vs. Children in “The Juniper Tree” Maria Tatar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
FOURTEEN. No No Nana: The Novel as Foreplay David Mickelsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
PART FOUR: THE DISCOURSE OF NARRATOLOGY
FIFTEEN. Contingency David Ε. Wellbery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
SIXTEEN. A Narratological Exchange Dorrit Cohn and Gérard Genette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267

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