Voice and Perception : An evolutionary approach to the basic functions of narrative

  • Whereas in traditional models of literary narrative we had to deal with typologies mainly (for instance, of "narrative situations"; see Stanzel 1971, 1984; Fludernik and Margolin 2004; Genette 1980), we now possess a systematic description of the imagination evoked by a text, which takes into account the quasi-ontological (see Bortolussi and Dixon 2003) status of its constituents. In this chapter I search for the cognitive functions that correlate with the text features of "voice" and "perception" and for how they bring about such a "layered" imagination in the reader. The aim is to explain how and why literary narratives can run properly in the human mind-which is another way of asking how humans could develop narrative discourse as a way of communication at all.

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Author:Katja Mellmann
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-380220
URL:https://www.academia.edu/211679/Voice_and_perception._An_evolutionary_approach_to_the_basic_functions_of_narrative_2010_
ISBN:978-0-292-72888-2
Parent Title (English):Toward a cognitive theory of narrative acts / ed. by Frederick Luis Aldama. Cognitive approaches to literature and culture series
Publisher:University of Texas Press
Place of publication:Austin, TX
Editor:Frederick Luis Aldama
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2015/09/09
Year of first Publication:2011
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2015/09/09
GND Keyword:Narrativität; Stimme; Kognitionswissenscahft
Page Number:22
First Page:119
Last Page:140
HeBIS-PPN:387635750
Dewey Decimal Classification:8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik
Sammlungen:CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
BDSL-Klassifikation:03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft / BDSL-Klassifikation: 03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft > 03.06.00 Literaturtheorie
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht