Relevance and narrative research. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Matei Chihaia, Katharina Rennhak.
• Editors: Chihaia, Matei; Rennhak, Katharina
• Contents: Acknowledgments ; ; 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 ; ; ; Index ; ; About the Editors ; ; About the Contributors
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 001.433; Narrative inquiry (Research method); Relevance
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498586832
• Related ISBNs: 9781498586825
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