Disputable Core Concepts of Narrative Theory

Contents: Sten Wistrand: Time for Departure? The Principle of Minimal Departure - a Critical Examination - Staffan Carlshamre: Is There Ever a Happy Ending? - Leif Søndergaard: Fictional and Factual Discourses in Narratives - and the Grey Zone Between - Mari Hatavara: Contested History, Denied Past. The Narrator's Failure in Ralf Nordgren's Det har aldrig hänt (1977) - Per Krogh Hansen: Formalizing the Study of Character: Traits, Profiles, Possibilities - Lars-Åke Skalin: Reading Literary Characters: Is There a Knowing the Dancer from the Dance? - Marina Grishakova: The Voices of Madness: Performativity and Narrative Identity - Christer Johansson: Telling and Showing: A Semiotic Perspective - Göran Rossholm: Narrative as Story Representation - Jeremy Hawthorn: Philip Roth's Exit Ghost, Joseph Conrad's The Shadow-Line, and the Ethical Implications of Narrative Occasion - Pekka Tammi: OTHIN RONG WIT HE UBTITLES. Remarks on Unreliability in Fiction and Non-Fiction - Rolf Gaasland: Practical Reasoning Demarcated. Unreliable Narration in Franz Kafka's «Erstes Leid» - Anniken Greve: Form, Sense and Nonsense. With Examples from Wittgenstein and Kafka - Erik van Ooijen: Notes on the Conceptualization of Style as Embodied Idiolect in French Structuralism - Greger Andersson: Is There a Narrative Method of Text Analysis and Interpretation? - Jakob Lothe: Verbal Narrative and Visual Image: Trains and Railways in W. G. Sebald's «Paul Bereyter» and Austerlitz - Matti Hyvärinen: «Against Narrativity» Reconsidered - Markku Lehtimäki: Imagist Narrative: The Everyday and the Aesthetic in Hemingway's Fiction.