
Relevance and Narrative Research
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Katharina Rennhak is professor of English literature at the University of Wuppertal.
Content
Introduction: The Dialectics of Relevance and Narrative Research
Matei Chihaia and Katharina Rennhak
Part 1. The Politics of Narrative Relevance
Chapter 1. The (Ir)Relevance of Narratology
Susan S. Lanser
Chapter 2. Disciplining Relevance: On Manifest and Latent Functions of Narratives
Andreas Mahler
Part 2. The Logic of Narrative Relevance
Chapter 3. Relevant Logics, Counterfactual Worlds, and the Understanding of Narrative
Luis Galván
Chapter 4. Relevance Theory and Literary Studies-and Some Thoughts on Paul Torday's The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce
Carsten Breul
Chapter 5. Communication, Life, and Dangerous Things: On Relevance and Tellability in Pictures
Michael Ranta
Part 3. The Relativity of Relevance
Chapter 6. The Relevance of Irrelevance in Mimetic Narratives: Guess What...
Raphaël Baroni
Chapter 7. Narrating Random Probes: The Ideal of "Slice-of-Life"
Sebastian Domsch
Part 4. (Ir)Relevance and Narrative Genres
Chapter 8. Relevance Theory in Contemporary Narratology: Processing Meaning from Narrative Texts
Sonja Klimek
Chapter 9. "Less is More": Narrative Strategies of Reduction and the Construct of (Ir)Relevance in the Works of Three French Minimalist Authors
Susanne Schlünder
Chapter 10. The Relevance of Narrative Theory for the Study of Short Fiction: The Case of First-Person Present-Tense Narration
Elke D'hoker
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About the Contributors
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