New Perspectives on Narrative PerspectiveWillie van Peer, Seymour Benjamin Chatman Narrative perspective is the faculty through which humans understand, structure, and explore the world that confronts them. This is the first volume to bring together the theoretical study of perspective with the rigor of experimental studies, combining work in narratology with that in linguistics, philosophy, film studies, literary theory, and cognitive psychology. The chapters are grouped thematically and drawn together by the editors, who provide guidance through this new and fascinating interdisciplinary territory. |
Contents
On the Narrative Connection Noel Carroll | 17 |
A Point of View on Point of View or Refocusing Focalization Gerald Prince | 39 |
Why Narrators Can Be Focalizers and Why It Matters James Phelan | 47 |
The Origins of Figural Narration in Antiquity Irene J F de Jong | 63 |
The Rise and Fall of Empathetic Narrative A Historical Perspective on Perspective Sylvia Adamson | 79 |
The Establishment of Internal Focalization in Odd Pronominal Contexts Monika Fludernik | 97 |
Ironic Perspective Conrads Secret Agent Seymour Chatman | 113 |
Point of View and Viewer Empathy in Film Els Andringa Petra van Horssen Astrid Jacobs and Ed Tan | 129 |
Collective Perspective Individual Perspective and the Speaker in Between On We Literary Narratives Uri Margolin | 237 |
Who Said What? Who Knows What? Tracking Speakers and Knowledge in Narratives Arthur C Graesser Cheryl Bowers Ute J Bayen and Xiangen Hu | 251 |
Prolegomena for a Science of Psychonarratology Peter Dixon and Marisa Bortolussi | 271 |
Shifting Perspectives Readers Feelings and Literary Response David S Miall and Don Kuiken | 285 |
Perspective as Participation Richard J Gerrig | 299 |
Justice in Perspective Willie van Peer | 321 |
Epilogue Research Questions Research Paradigms and Research Methodologies in the Study of Narrative Mick Short | 335 |
Glossary | 353 |
Breaking Conventional Barriers Transgressions of Modes of Focalization Dan Shen | 155 |
Holding onto Established Viewpoints during Processing News Reports Herre van Oostendorp | 169 |
ActorRole Analysis Ideology Point of View and the News Warren Sack | 185 |
On the Perspective Structure of Narrative Texts Steps toward a Constructivist Narratology Ansgar Nunning | 203 |
Situation Models and Point of View in Narrative Understanding Daniel Morrow | 221 |
Bibliography | 355 |
Contributors | 383 |
Name Index | 385 |
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