Narratology and Interpretation
A Rejoinder to David Darby
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7960229 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tom Kindt (0009-0000-1641-3473), Hans-Harald Muller |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 413-421 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/03335372-24-3-413 |
| OpenAlex | W2157986744 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
This contribution discusses the two programmatic assumptions made by David Darby in his outline of the history of narratology orErzähltheorie (narrative theory).The first is that narratology ought to be remodeled into a contextualist theory of interpretation; the second is that such a “contextualist narratology” necessarily requires the category of the “implied author.” By contrast, we argue that the “contextualists” can state convincing reasons neither for a change of narratology's aims nor for a necessary widening of its object domain. Finally, we demonstrate that Darby's thoughts on Wayne C. Booth's concept of the “implied author” are based on the mixing of two definitions of this concept that are in fact mutually exclusive
Epistemology · Linguistics · Narrative · Narratology · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy
The Nature of Fiction
Towards a ‘Natural’ Narratology
Interpretation and Overinterpretation
Towards a 'Natural' Narratology
From Labov and Waletzky to "Contextualist Narratology"
Implied Author, Motivation and Theme and their Problematic Status
The 'Second Self' in Novel Criticism
What Can We Learn from Contextualist Narratology
The Point of Narratology
A Theory of Narrative
The Encirclement of Narrative
Frames, Preferences, and the Reading of Third-Person Narratives
Whatever Happened to Narratology
Form and Context
A Low-Structuralist at Bay? Further Thoughts on A Theory of Narrative
The Postulated Author
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |