Toward a Comparative Narratology
A Chinese Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8910158 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bingxing Shang (0000-0003-3946-3961, corresponding author), Biwu Shang |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 52-69 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Literature Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4132 • E-ISSN: 1528-4212 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/complitstudies.54.1.0052 |
| OpenAlex | W2605793188 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
As a rejoinder to Susan Stanford Friedman's call for a transnational turn in narrative theory, this article attempts to draw attention to a comparativist turn in current narrative studies, addressing three broad questions: why compare, what to compare, and how to compare. A comparative narratology is expected to decolonize and to subvert the hegemony of European and Anglo-American narrative theory, and thus both paves the way for the rise of those marginalized narrative theories and draws attention to those neglected and peripheral narratives. Apart from presenting a Chinese counterpart of Western narrative theory, it tries to specifically engage with newly developed unnatural narrative theory by analyzing Chinese ghost stories, a particular type of unnatural narrative in Chinese literature, so as to display its unnatural features as well as its challenges to existing Western unnatural approaches
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Hegemony · Literature · Narrative · Narrative criticism · Narrative inquiry · Narrative network · Narrative structure · Narratology · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · History · Law · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |