Narration, life and meaning in history and fiction

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11991985
AutoresGreger Andersson (0000-0003-2080-3620, Comparative Literature, Örebro University, Sweden, autor de correspondencia), Jimmy Engren (0000-0003-2987-1937, History, Örebro University, Sweden)
Año2022
Volumen47
Número1
Páginas62-82
Fecha de publicación2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaScandinavian Journal of History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0346-8755 • E-ISSN: 1502-7716
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03468755.2021.2014356
OpenAlexW4205835336
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas25

This article addresses two subjects relating to the topic of this issue of Scandinavian Journal of History from a ‘difference approach’ in narratology. This means that we assume that words like ‘narrative’ and ‘fiction’ are used to denote different things and that it is important to distinguish between these uses. We also assume that narrative texts that share similar surface structures can still ‘do’ different things and are approached differently by readers. The first issue we focus on concerns history writing and narrative. We are especially interested in the discussion about the distinction between narrative history writing and literary fiction. When discussing this issue, we distinguish between different uses of terms like ‘narrative’, ‘fictiveness’, and ‘fiction’. The second issue concerns the application of narratology as a method in the analysis of oral and written texts. We suggest that narratological concepts like narrator and perspective do not have the same denotation in the analysis of literary fiction as in the analysis of non-fictional narratives, and hence that narratology with its many concepts cannot be applied indiscriminately. In the discussion of these issues, we refer to factual and fictional written and oral texts concerned with migration

Art · Denotation (semiotics · Epistemology · Fiction theory · Focalization · Literary criticism · Literary fiction · Literature · Meaning (existential · Narrative · Narrative criticism · Narrative history · Narrative inquiry · Narrative network · Narrative structure · Narrativity · Narratology · Perspective (graphical · Visual arts · History · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Translation Studies and Practices