Peter Hühn

Lyric poetry as a temporal art-form makes pervasive use of narrative elements in organizing the progressive course of the poetic text. This observation justifies the application of the advanced methodology of narratology to the systematic analysis of lyric poems. After a concise presentation of this transgeneric approach to poetry, the study sets out to demonstrate its practical fruitfulness in detailed analyses of a large number of English (and some American) poems from the early modern period to the present. The narratological approach proves particularly suited to focus on the hitherto widely neglected dimension of sequentiality, the dynamic progression of the poetic utterance and its eventful turns, which largely constitute the raison d'être of the poem. To facilitate comparisons, the examples chosen share one special thematic complex, the traumatic experience of severe loss: the death of a beloved person, the imminence of one’s own death, the death of a revered fellow-poet and the loss of a fundamental stabilizing order. The function of the poems can be described as facing the traumatic experience in the poetic medium and employing various coping strategies. The poems thus possess a therapeutic impetus.

Narrative and Eventfulness in Lyric Poetry

Facing Loss and Death

Wolf Schmid

John Pier

This handbook brings together 42 contributions by leading narratologists devoted to the study of narrative devices in European literatures from antiquity to the present. Each entry examines the use of a specific narrative device in one or two national literatures across the ages, whether in successive or distant periods of time. Through the analysis of representative texts in a range of European languages, the authors compellingly trace the continuities and evolution of storytelling devices, as well as their culture-specific manifestations. In response to Monika Fludernik’s 2003 call for a "diachronization of narratology," this new handbook complements existing synchronic approaches that tend to be ahistorical in their outlook, and departs from postclassical narratologies that often prioritize thematic and ideological concerns. A new direction in narrative theory, diachronic narratology explores previously overlooked questions, from the evolution of free indirect speech from the Middle Ages to the present, to how changes in narrative sequence encoded the shift from a sacred to a secular worldview in early modern Romance literatures. An invaluable new resource for literary theorists, historians, comparatists, discourse analysts, and linguists.

Handbook of Diachronic Narratology

Describes a framework for the narratological definition of the term 'eventfulness'. This book includes a series of analyses of canonical British novels and tales that demonstrates in how this concept can be put into practice for a specific contextual interpretation of the eventfulness of these texts.

Eventfulness in British Fiction

Wulf Künne

Fallstudien zu ihrer Rezeption bei Schülern u. Studenten

Englische triviale Frauenliteratur

Jörg Schönert

Stories do not actually exist in the world but are created and structured- modeled- through the process of mediation, i.e. through the means and techniques by which they are represented. This is an important field, not only for narratology but a

Modeling Mediation in Narrative

Point of View, Perspective, and Focalization

Jan Christoph Meister

This handbook provides a systematic overview of the present state of international research in narratology and is now available in a second, completely revised and expanded edition.Detailed individual studies by internationally renowned narratologists elucidate central terms of narratology, present a critical account of the major research positions and their historical development and indicate directions for future research.

Handbook of Narratology

This handbook in English provides a systematic overview of the present state of international research in narratology. Detailed individual studies by internationally renowned narratologists elucidate 34 central terms. The articles present original research contributions and are all structured in a similar manner. Each contains a concise definition and a detailed explanation of the term in question. In a main section they present a critical account of the major research positions and their historical development and indicate directions for future research; they conclude with selected bibliographical references.

Malte Stein

Lyrik wird in der Regel als eigenständige Gattung betrachtet - in Abgrenzung zu erzählenden und szenisch vermittelnden Texten. In dieser Publikation soll mit Bezug auf Kategorien der Erzähltheorie herausgearbeitet werden, dass auch Gedichte grundlegende Eigenschaften (insbesondere die perspektivierte Vermittlung sequentiell organisierter Ereignisse) aufweisen, die als Kennzeichen von Narrativität gelten. Damit ergeben sich zum einen wichtige Revisionen für die Gattungstheorie, zum anderen werden die Verfahren zur Textanalyse von Gedichten erheblich erweitert und präzisiert - auch unter Einbezug der Schema-Theorie im Sinne der Kognitionspsychologie. Ein einleitendes Kapitel entwickelt in detaillierter Weise das narratologisch fundierte Konzept zur Interpretation von Lyrik-Texten, die nicht den erzählenden Gedichten im engeren Sinne (also Balladen und Romanzen) zuzgeordnet werden. Die nachfolgenden Analysen zu 20 Beispieltexten von Autoren, die weithin dem Lyrik-Kanon zuzurechnen und in wichtigen Anthologien vertreten sind, werden in einem abschließenden Kapitel im Hinblick auf poetologische Probleme und charakteristische literaturgeschichtliche Konstellationen ausgewertet.

Text-Analysen zu deutschsprachigen Gedichten vom 16. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert

Lyrik und Narratologie

Lyric poetry is usually regarded as a genre in its own right, delineated from narrative and dramatic texts. This publication intends to use categories from narrative theory to develop the argument that poems also display basic characteristics seen as indicative of the narrative (in particular, the perspectivized presentation of sequentially ordered events). The results are firstly significant revisions of genre-theory, and secondly a considerable extension and precision in processes of textual analysis - including the use of scheme theory as used in cognitive psychology.

Peter Hühn

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