Narratology Research Group at Hamburg University

"The temporality effect: Design and computer-based application of a constituent model of narrative temporal order."

Jan Christoph Meister in cooperation with Günter Dammann, Rolf Krause and Özgür Özcep

Set against the background of an overview of research on 'narrative temporaility' this project will focus on the development of a constituent model of the 'temporaility effect'. This effect - that is, the impression of temporal order in narrative, both on the level of fictional reality and narrative discourse - will be explained in terms of the distribution of empirical 'Vorstellungen' (representations of objects) and 'temporal operators' throughout the text.

In applying the constituent model to selected narrative texts we also want to illustrate the contribution which a specialized approach based on literary computing methods can make toward the analysis of the category 'time'. A software package called TEMPUS PARSER will be developed for this purpose.

Further information and download options for the software are available at www.jcmeister.de

 

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