Current Trends in Narrative Theory: International Perspectives April 29, 2008

Conversational Thematics and Rhetorical Force in Narrative Fiction" Conversational Thematics and Rhetorical Force in Narrative Fiction" Anniken Greve Anniken Greve Anniken Greve Anniken Greve Department of Culture and Literature Department of Culture and Literature Faculty of Humanities Faculty of Humanities University of Tromso, Norway University of Tromso, Norway

Unreliable Narration between Authors’ Intentions and Readers’ Cognitive Strategies Current Trends in Narrative Theory: International Perspectives Project Narrative, Ohio State University April 29, 2008 Per Krogh Hansen University of Southern Denmark

Wayne Booth: “For lack of better terms, I have called a narrator reliable when he speaks for or acts in accordance with the norms of the work (which is to say, the implied author’s norms), unreliable when he does not. (Booth 1991 [1961]: 158f)”

Wayne Booth: “For lack of better terms, I have called a narrator reliable when he speaks for or acts in accordance with the norms of the work (which is to say, the implied author’s norms), unreliable when he does not. (Booth 1991 [1961]: 158f)” James Phelan, on unreliable narration: “Narration in which the narrator’s reporting, reading (or interpreting), and/or regarding (or evaluating) are not in accord with the implied author’s.” (Phelan 2005: 219)

The rhetoricians…  restricts the use of the concept to fiction  brings the reader’s role out of focus

The rhetoricians…  restricts the use of the concept to fiction  brings the reader’s role out of focus Unreliable narration is…  more flexible than the rhetoricians seem to acknowledge  primarily a diegetic issue  historically and culturally variable. Implied author is…  in general only relevant to include if becoming visual as a narrative agent

Four forms of unreliable narration  Intranarrational unreliability  Internarrational unreliability  Intertextual unreliability  Extratextual unreliability

Communication in unreliable narration Implicit author Stable IronyReconstructive strategy (Sedondary narrator/ character) Rejection‘Proof-reading’ Author  Character Narrator  Narration  Narratee  Reader Approval‘Misreading’ Omitted author Unstable Irony Constructive strategy

dreaming and narrative theory Richard Walsh two stages: the case for viewing dreams as narrative, rather than hallucinatory experience the consequences, if so, for narrative theory two approaches not pursued Dennett against dream experiences Freud’s view of the dreamwork as representational discourse

dreams in the cognitive sciences psychological accounts v. physiological accounts: David Foulkes: operation of reflective consciousness in sleep Alan Hobson: activation-synthesis model of sleeping brain states restriction of the cognitive dimension of dreaming Peirce and the percept as sign dreams compared to memories

representational narrative percepts dream percepts memories dreams fictive the relations between perceptions, memories and dreams

representational narrative percepts dream percepts memories dreams fictive the relations between perceptions, memories and dreams

representational narrative percepts dream percepts memories dreams fictive the relations between perceptions, memories and dreams

representational narrative percepts dream percepts memories dreams fictive the relations between perceptions, memories and dreams

representational narrative percepts dream percepts memories dreams fictive the relations between perceptions, memories and dreams

the self in dreams tension between the “I” who experiences dream events and the “I” who produces the dream reflective consciousness in lucid dreaming narrative immersion contrasted with immersion in a simulation

consequences for narrative theory fictionality narrativity story and discourse the narrator voice medium narrative creativity affective response

Distributed Cognition (Cog Sci Talk) Copes with the Unsaturatable Context (Poststructuralist Talk) Ellen Spolsky Bar-Ilan University Ellen Spolsky Bar-Ilan University

Held and Hein’s cats

Pablo Picasso First Steps

Dove’s nest in cactus

Pitcher

Picasso, Skull and Pitcher

Othello and Desdemona

Nimrud Lion Colossus

Current Trends in Narrative Theory: International Perspectives April 29, 2008