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Eine Konstante der Diskussion zur Bestimmung von "Narrativität" ist der Versuch, Narrativität als kennzeichnendes Merkmal des erzählenden Textes funktional zu bestimmen: nämlich als eine spezifische Form der symbolischen Ereignisrepräsentation. Dieser Beitrag entwickelt dagegen die These, daß Narrativität keine Frage des Entweder/Oder ist, sondern eine der graduellen Realisation spezifischer logischer Bedingungen, die sich in Form einer sog. "Ereignis-Matrix" definieren lassen. Alles, was die Bedingungen der Ereignis-Matrix erfüllt, taugt zum "Ereignis-Konstrukt" – aber nur jene Ereignis-Konstrukte und damit auch die ihnen zugrundeliegenden Texte sind in sich selbst narrativ, in denen die temporale Ordnung sich nicht auf die reine Sequentialität der symbolischen Zeichen reduziert.
A glance at the current situation in literary criticism shows that narratology, pronounced dead twenty years ago, is remarkably alive and well. This fact has been noted repeatedly and with understandable self-satisfaction in the recent literature on research into narrative theory. Just how astonishing this rebirth is, however, becomes apparent only when we step back from literary criticism and the humanities to take a wider historical view of the developments in academic and theoretical circles that preceded it. The deeply symbolic year of 1968 marked the fall of the academic ancient régime. Partly in anticipation of this and partly in response to it, a number of new leading disciplines were raised to power in western Europe as sources of hope for the future. However much they may have differed from one another in political purpose (in theoretical circles or beyond), linguistics, political economy, psychoanalysis, and structuralist semiology—to name but a few of the superdisciplines of the time—clearly belonged to one and the same paradigm in terms of how they conceived of themselves: throughout, they sought to reveal universal, ahistorical regularities in human thought and action in their respective fields.