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Theorizing Second-Person Narratives: A Backwater Project? by Per Krogh Hansen; Stefan Iversen; Henrik Skov Nielsen; Rolf Reitan is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html><head> <meta http-equiv=content-type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta content="mshtml 6.00.6000.17095" name=generator></head> <body> <P>From its beginnings narratology has incorporated a communicative model of literary narratives, considering these as simulations of natural, oral acts of communication. This approach, however, has had some problems with accounting for the strangeness and anomalies of modern and postmodern narratives. As many skeptics have shown, not even classical realism conforms to the standard set by oral or ‘natural’ storytelling. Thus, an urge to confront narratology with the difficult task of reconsidering a most basic premise in its theoretical and analytical endeavors has, for some time, been undeniable.</P> <P>During the 2000s, Nordic narratologists have been among the most active and insistent critics of the communicative model. They share a marked skepticism towards the idea of using ‘natural’ narratives as a model for understanding and interpreting all kinds of narratives, and for all of them, the distinction of fiction is of vital importance.</P> <P>This anthology present

Author
Per Krogh Hansen; Stefan Iversen; Henrik Skov Nielsen; Rolf Reitan
Publisher
de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9783110268577

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