Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Chihaia, Matei
2. Rennhak, Katharina

Description

1. xxx, 202 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. "Relevance and Narrative Research turns the vaguely defined evaluative tool 'relevance' into an object of study, firmly situating questions of relevance in the context of narrative theory. It examines what relevance can do for narrative research and vice versa"--

Subject

1. Relevance
2. Narration (Rhetoric)
3. Discourse analysis, Narrative

Contents

1. Introduction : the dialectics of relevance and narrative research / Matei Chihaia and Katharina Rennhak -- The (ir)relevance of narratology / Susan S. Lanser -- Disciplining relevance : on manifest and latent functions of narratives / Andreas Mahler -- Relevant logics, counterfactual worlds, and the understanding of narrative / Luis Galván -- Relevance theory and literary studies, and some thoughts on Paul Torday's The irresistible inheritance of Wilberforce / Carsten Breul -- Communication, life, and dangerous things : on relevance and tellability in pictures / Michael Ranta -- The relevance of irrelevance in mimetic narratives : guess what? / Raphaël Baroni -- Narrating random probes : the ideal of "slice-of-life" / Sebastian Domsch -- Relevance theory in contemporary narratology : processing meaning from narrative texts / Sonja Klimek -- "Less is more" : narrative strategies of reduction and the construct of (ir)relevance in the works of three French minimalist authors / Susanne Schlünder -- The relevance of narrative theory for the study of short fiction : the case of first-person present-tense narration / Elke D'hoker.

Call number

1. JFE 19-7610

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Relevance and narrative research / edited by Matei Chihaia and Katharina Rennhak.

Publisher

1. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Chihaia, Matei, editor.
2. Rennhak, Katharina, editor.

Other form:

1. Online version: Relevance and narrative research Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019] 9781498586832 (DLC) 2019006088

LCCN

1. 2018060548

ISBN

1. 9781498586825 hardcover
2. 1498586821 hardcover

Research call number

1. JFE 19-7610