Katerina Klinkova

Personal information

First name

Katerina

Last name

Klinkova

Institutional affiliation

doctorate student, department of 'Theory of literature', University of Sofia 'Saint Kliment Ohridski', Sofia, Bulgaria

Narratological interest

My interest in narratology has two sides - first as a scholar I am interested in the 'classical' narratology and structuralism, Barthes, Greimas, Genette, Todorov, as an important part of the historical development of theory of literature, which I will have to teach my students at the university. Secondly, I am interested of narratology because of my personal dissertation project. My theme is 'Time and Image' and I explore the connection between time and image, more specifically time as a temporal dimension, as a characteristic of the image itself hence I proceed from the understanding that there is a constant 'movement' in the text, it is a temporal art and the image has a main role in that 'movement'. For that inquiry the books of Monika Fludernik and Kate Hamburger will be of a high importance. My aim is to create different models of the temporality of the image and to prove that time is not only post factum as a perception on the reader, not only a result, but a base for creating the image, its condition and necessity. And finally, I want to experiment with theory of narratology by applying it to examples of art works of High Modernism. It is a challenge to analyze Modernists texts trough narrative constructions and 'time' there is quite peculiar. Anyway, I would like to contribute with new perspectives of narrative science as it seems a bit neglected here in Bulgaria.