@article {475, title = {Lyrical prose and the ritualistic: Lyricality as an interpretative lens for analysing C. C. Krijgelmans{\textquoteright}s short story {\textquotedblleft}Homunculi{\textquotedblright}}, journal = {Frontiers of Narrative Studies}, volume = {4}, year = {2018}, month = {2018///}, pages = {s105 - s125}, abstract = {Homunculi (1967) is the first short story collection by the Flemish-Belgian experimental writer Claude C. Krijgelmans. The stories challenge narrative conventions. The title story of the collection mainly experiments with formal conventions: it foregrounds rhythmic repetition and musicality, and deviates from grammatical rules. These features are conventionally associated with lyrical poetry, rather than with narrative texts. Moreover, the text thematises rituals, which hints at the presence of a ritualistic quality that is often linked with lyrical texts. This article focuses on the lyrical elements in {\textquotedblleft}Homunculi{\textquotedblright} and associates them with the ritualistic. I define lyricality as a literary mode that consists of lyrical tendencies, which can be realised in different ways. The ritualistic quality associated with this mode can be defined as a recurrent combination of lyrical tendencies. The ritualistic involves both semantic and formal aspects. Semantically, it is characterised as an impersonal quality of language. Formally, the ritualistic is memorable, non-representational language. The focus on lyricality enables a working definition of the ritualistic. Approaching {\textquotedblleft}Homunculi{\textquotedblright} with lyricality as an interpretative lens has theoretical as well as analytical advantages. First, it situates the prose text in a wider tradition of lyrical, ritualistic texts. Next, the focus on lyricality reveals new interpretative possibilities for {\textquotedblleft}Homunculi{\textquotedblright}. Against that background, this paper demonstrates the need for a narratology that considers the interaction between narrativity and other modes, like lyricality.}, keywords = {lyricality, Narratology, the ritualistic}, isbn = {2509-4882}, url = {https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/fns.2018.4.issue-s1/fns-2018-0034/fns-2018-0034.xml?format=INT}, author = {Janssens, Nele} } @book {vogt_theorie_2018, title = {Theorie und Typologie narrativer Unzuverl{\"a}ssigkeit am Beispiel englischsprachiger Erz{\"a}hlliteratur}, year = {2018}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, organization = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin, Boston}, abstract = {Unzuverl{\"a}ssiges Erz{\"a}hlen geh{\"o}rt zu den meist diskutierten Ph{\"a}nomenen der Narratologie. Fragen betreffen die Semantik des Konzepts, Differenzierungskriterien, den Ma{\ss}stab f{\"u}r eine Unzuverl{\"a}ssigkeitszuschreibung, die Explikation des Konzepts sowie dessen Reichweite. Die Arbeit widmet sich systematisch diesen verschiedenen Problemfeldern. Dabei weitet sie jedoch den Blick auf narrative Unzuverl{\"a}ssigkeit, welches sowohl verschiedene Formen des unzuverl{\"a}ssigen Erz{\"a}hlens als auch unzuverl{\"a}ssige Fokalisierung beinhaltet. Mit R{\"u}ckgriff auf Konzepte der possible-worlds theory und der kognitiven Narratologie werden Modelle und Kategorien entwickelt, um die verschiedenen Arten der narrativen Unzuverl{\"a}ssigkeit differenziert beschreiben und das Rezeptionsverhalten von Lesern erkl{\"a}ren zu k{\"o}nnen. Anhand von exemplarischen Analysen englischsprachiger Erz{\"a}hlwerke wird die Leistungsf{\"a}higkeit der Theorie illustriert, bevor die metakognitiven Funktionspotenziale narrativer Unzuverl{\"a}ssigkeit aufgezeigt werden.}, keywords = {English literature, Narratology, Unreliable narration}, isbn = {978-3-11-054852-5}, url = {https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/489934}, author = {Vogt, Robert} } @book {hansen_emerging_2017, title = {Emerging Vectors of Narratology}, series = {Narratologia}, number = {57}, year = {2017}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, organization = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin, Boston}, abstract = {Narratology has been flourishing in recent years thanks to investigations into a broad spectrum of narratives, at the same time diversifying its theoretical and disciplinary scope as it has sought to specify the status of narrative within both society and scientific research. The diverse endeavors engendered by this situation have brought narrative to the forefront of the social and human sciences and have generated new synergies in the research environment.Emerging Vectors of Narratology brings together 27 state-of-the-art contributions by an international panel of authors that provide insight into the wealth of new developments in the field. The book consists of two sections. "Contexts" includes articles that reframe and refine such topics as the implied author, narrative causation and transmedial forms of narrative; it also investigates various historical and cultural aspects of narrative from the narratological perspective. "Openings" expands on these and other questions by addressing the narrative turn, cognitive issues, narrative complexity and metatheoretical matters.The book is intended for narratologists as well as for readers in the social and human sciences for whom narrative has become a crucial matrix of inquiry.}, keywords = {comparative narrative studies, narrative cognition, narrative turn, Narratology}, isbn = {978-3-11-055515-8}, url = {https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/491438}, author = {Hansen, Per Krogh and Pier, John and Roussin, Philippe and Schmid, Wolf} }