Jan Alber
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594228 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Alber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Alber |
| SIGNATURE | ALBER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Freiburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction
To date, the notion of narrative literacy has remained underdeveloped. If it is used at all, it is mostly conceptualised as a creative skill: the capacity to turn experiences into narrative (Romero-Ivanova et al., 2019). In the context of our current “era of total narrativity” (Meneghelli 2013), in which everything either is, or should be presented as a story, it can be understood why this would be an important skill. In this special issue, howev…
Disruptive Stories, Narrative Literacy, and the Case of QAnon
Measuring storyworld possible selves in depression stories
This study presents an experimental approach to storyworld possible selves (SPSs, Martínez, 2014), a construct that describes how individuals activate the temporal dimensions of their self-concept (past selves, present self, and possible selves) when engaging with narratives. This study analyzes how the content of a narrative influences the generation of SPSs by using depression stories as a case study. The core aims are to investigate whether th…
Interpreting Timbuktu
Interpreting Timbuktu:An Unnatural Narrative, an Emotional Reading Experience, and a Cognitive Explanation Mengni Kang (bio) and Jan Alber (bio) Paul Auster's novella Timbuktu (1998) tells a tear-jerking story through the eyes of a dog, Mr. Bones, who struggles with the fact that his human master Willy G. Christmas is dying. The work, like many literary endeavors in the field of animal consciousness, does not attract much critical attention (Ittn…
Mimesis
Among literary-theoretical concepts, mimesis has one of the longest histories, dating back to Plato and Aristotle. In the twentieth century, discussion of mimesis resulted in a number of highly influential contributions, including Eric Auerbach’s Mimesis and Paul Ricoeur’s Time and Narrative. In this article, we use Ricoeur’s tripartite model of mimesis as a catalyst for a dialogue between unnatural and cognitive approaches to narrative. In the f…
Stones of Law, Bricks of Shame
Storyworlds across Media
Unnatural Narratology
Unnatural narratology is a new field within narrative theory that seeks to focus on the anti‐mimeticism of many fictional narratives. In other words, the research program proposed by unnatural narrative theorists involves the systematic study of the various ways in which fictional narratives deviate from “natural” cognitive frames, i.e., real‐world understandings of time, space, and other human beings. In a second step, unnatural narratologists d…
What Really Is Unnatural Narratology
What Really Is Unnatural Narratology? Jan Alber (bio), Stefan Iversen (bio), Henrik Skov Nielsen (bio), and Brian Richardson (bio) We are always happy to clarify our work, discuss our ideas, explain our concepts further, and, for that matter, rethink our terms, arguments, and positions. This is the job of any intellectual, and it is especially important when one is developing a new conceptual paradigm. Hence, we would like to thank David Herman, …
Ontological Metalepsis and Unnatural Narratology
In this article, we focus on ontological metalepses that involve represented transgressions of world boundaries as one manifestation of the unnatural. We first discriminate between ascending, descending, and horizontal metaleptic jumps a three types of unnatural metalepses, or, more specifically, metalepses physically or logically impossible (Alber 80) and, in a second step, try to determine their potential functions. We also propose a new cognit…
Unaturlige fortællinger. Hinsides mimetiske modeller
UNNATURAL NARRATIVES, UNNATURAL NARRATOLOGY | In recent years, the study of unnatural narrative has developed into one of the most exciting new paradigms in narrative theory. Both younger and more established scholars have become increasingly interested in the analysis of unnatural texts, many of which have been consistently neglected or marginalized in existing narratological frameworks. By means of the collaboration of four scholars who have be…
Cinematic Carcerality
Echoes and Mirrorings
Book Review| June 01 2002 Echoes and Mirrorings: Gabriel Josipovici's Creative Oeuvre Jan Alber Jan Alber Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Poetics Today (2002) 23 (2): 363–364. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-23-2-363 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citati…
Storyworlds across Media
Ontological Metalepsis and Unnatural Narratology
In this article, we focus on ontological metalepses that involve represented transgressions of world boundaries as one manifestation of the unnatural. We first discriminate between ascending, descending, and horizontal metaleptic jumps a three types of unnatural metalepses, or, more specifically, metalepses physically or logically impossible (Alber 80) and, in a second step, try to determine their potential functions. We also propose a new cognit…
What Really Is Unnatural Narratology
What Really Is Unnatural Narratology? Jan Alber (bio), Stefan Iversen (bio), Henrik Skov Nielsen (bio), and Brian Richardson (bio) We are always happy to clarify our work, discuss our ideas, explain our concepts further, and, for that matter, rethink our terms, arguments, and positions. This is the job of any intellectual, and it is especially important when one is developing a new conceptual paradigm. Hence, we would like to thank David Herman, …
Cinematic Carcerality
Unnatural Narratology
Unnatural narratology is a new field within narrative theory that seeks to focus on the anti‐mimeticism of many fictional narratives. In other words, the research program proposed by unnatural narrative theorists involves the systematic study of the various ways in which fictional narratives deviate from “natural” cognitive frames, i.e., real‐world understandings of time, space, and other human beings. In a second step, unnatural narratologists d…
Echoes and Mirrorings
Book Review| June 01 2002 Echoes and Mirrorings: Gabriel Josipovici's Creative Oeuvre Jan Alber Jan Alber Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Poetics Today (2002) 23 (2): 363–364. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-23-2-363 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citati…
Unaturlige fortællinger. Hinsides mimetiske modeller
UNNATURAL NARRATIVES, UNNATURAL NARRATOLOGY | In recent years, the study of unnatural narrative has developed into one of the most exciting new paradigms in narrative theory. Both younger and more established scholars have become increasingly interested in the analysis of unnatural texts, many of which have been consistently neglected or marginalized in existing narratological frameworks. By means of the collaboration of four scholars who have be…
Cinematic Carcerality
Ontological Metalepsis and Unnatural Narratology
In this article, we focus on ontological metalepses that involve represented transgressions of world boundaries as one manifestation of the unnatural. We first discriminate between ascending, descending, and horizontal metaleptic jumps a three types of unnatural metalepses, or, more specifically, metalepses physically or logically impossible (Alber 80) and, in a second step, try to determine their potential functions. We also propose a new cognit…
Unnatural Narratology
Unnatural narratology is a new field within narrative theory that seeks to focus on the anti‐mimeticism of many fictional narratives. In other words, the research program proposed by unnatural narrative theorists involves the systematic study of the various ways in which fictional narratives deviate from “natural” cognitive frames, i.e., real‐world understandings of time, space, and other human beings. In a second step, unnatural narratologists d…
What Really Is Unnatural Narratology
What Really Is Unnatural Narratology? Jan Alber (bio), Stefan Iversen (bio), Henrik Skov Nielsen (bio), and Brian Richardson (bio) We are always happy to clarify our work, discuss our ideas, explain our concepts further, and, for that matter, rethink our terms, arguments, and positions. This is the job of any intellectual, and it is especially important when one is developing a new conceptual paradigm. Hence, we would like to thank David Herman, …
Storyworlds across Media
Stones of Law, Bricks of Shame
Mimesis
Among literary-theoretical concepts, mimesis has one of the longest histories, dating back to Plato and Aristotle. In the twentieth century, discussion of mimesis resulted in a number of highly influential contributions, including Eric Auerbach’s Mimesis and Paul Ricoeur’s Time and Narrative. In this article, we use Ricoeur’s tripartite model of mimesis as a catalyst for a dialogue between unnatural and cognitive approaches to narrative. In the f…
Interpreting Timbuktu
Interpreting Timbuktu:An Unnatural Narrative, an Emotional Reading Experience, and a Cognitive Explanation Mengni Kang (bio) and Jan Alber (bio) Paul Auster's novella Timbuktu (1998) tells a tear-jerking story through the eyes of a dog, Mr. Bones, who struggles with the fact that his human master Willy G. Christmas is dying. The work, like many literary endeavors in the field of animal consciousness, does not attract much critical attention (Ittn…
Measuring storyworld possible selves in depression stories
This study presents an experimental approach to storyworld possible selves (SPSs, Martínez, 2014), a construct that describes how individuals activate the temporal dimensions of their self-concept (past selves, present self, and possible selves) when engaging with narratives. This study analyzes how the content of a narrative influences the generation of SPSs by using depression stories as a case study. The core aims are to investigate whether th…
Introduction
To date, the notion of narrative literacy has remained underdeveloped. If it is used at all, it is mostly conceptualised as a creative skill: the capacity to turn experiences into narrative (Romero-Ivanova et al., 2019). In the context of our current “era of total narrativity” (Meneghelli 2013), in which everything either is, or should be presented as a story, it can be understood why this would be an important skill. In this special issue, howev…
Disruptive Stories, Narrative Literacy, and the Case of QAnon
Art (9 works) · Narrative (9 works) · Literature (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Narratology (7 works) · Narrative Theory and Analysis (6 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works)