Narratology
Genevieve Liveley (Author)
This volume explores the extraordinary contribution that classical poetics has made to twentieth and twenty-first century theories of narrative, aiming not to argue that modern narratologies simply present 'old wine in new wineskins', but rather to identify the diachronic affinities shared between ancient and modern stories about storytelling. By recognizing that modern narratologists bring a particular expertise to bear upon ancient literary theory, and by interrogating ancient and modern narratologies through the mutually imbricating dynamics of their reception, it seeks to arrive at a better understanding of both. 0Each chapter selects a key moment in the history of narratology on which to focus, providing an overview of significant phases before offering detailed analyses of core theories and texts, from the Russian formalists and Chicago school neo-Aristotelians, through the prestructuralists, structuralists, and poststructuralists, up to the latest unnatural and antimimetic narratologists. The reception history that thus unfolds offers some remarkable plot twists and yields valuable insights into the0interpretation of some notoriously difficult ancient works. Plato in the Republic is unmasked as an unreliable narrator and theorist, while Aristotle's On Poets reveals a rare glimpse of the philosopher putting narrative theory into practice in the role of storyteller. Horace's Ars Poetica and the works of ancient scholia by critics and commentators evince a rhetorically conceived poetics and sophisticated reader-response-based narratology which indicate a keen interest in audience affect and cognition - anticipating the cognitive turn in narratology's most recent postclassical phase
Print Book, English, 2019
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Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xi, 287 pages ; 23 cm.
9780199687701, 0199687706
1048936405
1:Introduction 2:Ancient Narrative Theory before Aristotle
Plato 2.1:Arche 2.2:Plato's Ion 2.3:Plato's Republic 2.4:Teleute 3:Aristotle 3.1:Arche 3.2:Aristotle and Plato 3.3:Muthos 3.4:Katholou and idion 3.5:Ethos 3.6:Dianoia 3.7:Diegetic mimesis 3.8:Teleute 4:Ancient Narrative Theory after Aristotle
Horace 4.1:Arche 4.2:Horace 'Letter to the Pisones' or Ars poetica 4.3:Teleute 5:Ancient Narrative Theory in Practice 5.1:Arche 5.2:Ancient narratological terms and concepts in the Homeric scholia 5.3:Modern narratological terms and concepts in the Homeric scholia 5.4:Ancient commentaries 5.5:Ancient narratological terms and concepts in the Servius commentaries 5.6:Modern narratological terms and concepts in the Servius commentaries 5.7:Teleute 6:Russian Formalism 6.1:Arche 6.2:Victor Shklovsky 6.3:Mikhail Petrovsky 6.4:Boris Tomashevsky 6.5:Vladimir Propp 6.6:Epeisodion (On translation) 6.7:Teleute 7:Neo-Aristotelianism 7.1:Arche 7.2:Ronald Crane 7.3:Wayne Booth 7.4:David Richter, Peter Rabinowitz, and James Phelan 7.5:Teleute 8:Prestructuralism 8.1:Arche 8.2:Henry James 8.3:Percy Lubbock 8.4:E.M. Forster 8.5:Norman Friedman 8.6:Franz Stanzel 8.7:Teleute 9:Structuralism 9.1:Arche 9.2:Roland Barthes 9.3:Tzvetan Todorov 9.4:Gérard Genette 9.4.1:Diegesis as mimesis (Plato and Aristotle) 9.4.2:Diegesis as histoire (Benveniste) 9.4.3:Diegesis as narrative pure and simple (Todorov) 9.4.4:Diegesis as diégèse (Metz and Souriau) 9.4.5:Diegesis as diégésis (Plato and Aristotle revisited) 9.5:Mieke Bal 9.6:Epeisodion (On translation) 9.7:Teleute 10:Poststructuralism 10.1:Arche 10.2:Seymour Chatman 10.3:Susan Lanser 10.4:Peter Brooks 10.5:Teleute 11:Postclassicism 11.1:Arche 11.2:Monika Fludernik 11.3:David Herman 11.4:Jan Alber and Brian Richardson 11.5:Teleute