Links to directories and general information sites for narratologists

A. Portals and Lists

 

• MCS - Media and Communication Studies Site. A comprehensive Media Studies Site with the motto "constructivism at work"  containing many useful links and articles in various Medi Studies related fields, including Narratology

 

• www.fabula.org
  
  Literarture portal with an emphasis on narrative theory:
  "- Un portail pour la communauté des chercheurs en littérature, visant ŕ la mise en commun des ressources intellectuelles et ŕ la diffusion de l'information scientifique.
  - Un centre de recherche en théorie de la fiction animé par un groupe de jeunes chercheurs."

 

• Récit
  
  Website of the Académie de Lyon / LETTRES with a section on narratology.
  (Ref. B.2.)

 

• MCS - Media and Communication Studies
  
  Contains links and entries relevant to narratologists.

B. Introductions, Overviews and Definitions

• Narratology - a guide to Narrative Theory by Manfred Jahn
  
  A concise overview of pertinent narratologicals models and concepts.
  (= Jahn, Manfred. 2001. Narratology: A Guide to the Theory of Narrative. Part III of Poems, Plays, and Prose: A Guide to the Theory of Literary Genres. English Department, University of Cologne.)

 

• ELEMENTS DE NARRATOLOGIE par Émile Simonnet
  
  Concise definitions and explanations of narratological terms.

C. Journals

• Journal of Narrative Theory

Electronic review and journal of the Institute for Cultural Studies (K.U.Leuven). General editor: Jan Baetens: "Image [&] Narrative is a university electronic review on visual narratology in the broadest sense of the term. The review and the electronic publication platform, besides tackling theorical issues, also engage into analysis of real time examples."

• Narrative Inquiry
  
  "Narrative Inquiry is devoted to providing a forum for theoretical, empirical, and methodological work on narrative.  Articles appearing in Narrative Inquiry draw upon a variety of approaches and methodologies in the study of narrative as a way to give contour to experience and life, conceptualize and preserve memories, or hand down experience, tradition, and values to future generations.  Particular emphasis is placed on theoretical approaches to narrative and the analysis of narratives in human interaction, including those practiced by researchers in psychology, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and related disciplines."

 

• Ancient Narrative. The Electronic Journal
  
  "As the name Ancient Narrative indicates, the areas of interest of the new journal are: Greek, Roman, Jewish novelistic traditions, including novels proper, the "fringe", as well as the fragments; narrative texts of the Byzantine age, early Christian narrative texts - and the reception of these works in modern literature, film and music."(Zugang zu Volltexten nur mit User-ID und Passwort - Abstracts sind frei zugänglich)

 

• Narrative. The Journal of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
  
  "The Society for the Study of Narrative Literature is an international association of scholars dedicated to the investigation of narrative, its elements, techniques, and forms; its relation to other modes of discourse; its power and influence in cultures past and present. Anyone with an interest in narrative studies is invited to join. Membership in the Society includes a subscription to Narrative as well as to the Society's newsletters which contain information about the Society's annual conference, its session at the MLA meetings, and other activities."

 

• The Journal of Folklore Research
  
  (Table of contents accessible.)

 

• Fabula. Zeitschrift für Erzählforschung /Journal of Folktale Studies / Revue d'Etudes sur le Conte Populaire
  
  "Fabula is a medium of discussion for issues of all kinds which are of interest to international folk narrative research. The journal contains eight divisions: Articles, Minor Contributions, Research Reports and Conference Reports, News, Projects and Queries, Reviews, Bibliographical Notes, and Books Received. Principal themes of the article section are the study of popular narrative traditions in their various forms (fairy tales, legends, jokes and anecdotes, exempla, fables, ballads, etc.), the interrelationship between oral and literary traditions as well as the contemporary genres. Interest focuses on Europe and overseas countries which are influenced by European civilization, but still, there is quite a number of contributions from other culture areas."
  (Suchbares Inhaltsverzeichnis der Einzelbände. Ab Band 42 / Jg. 2001 Volltextzugang für registrierte Nutzer.)

 

• Image [&] Narrative
  
  "Image [&] Narrative is an academic e-journal on visual narratology in the  broadest sense of the term. Beside tackling theoretical issues, it is a platform for reviews of real life examples. "

 

• Storytelling: A Critical Journal of Popular Narrative

Storytelling is dedicated to analyses of popular narratives in the widest sense of the phrase and as evidenced in the media and all aspects of culture. Articles typically focus on children's literature, comics, detective/crime fiction, film, horror/gothic, music, romance, science fiction, television, and other areas and so provide indispensable information for scholars, students, and fans in all fields of popular culture.

 

• Style
  
  "Style, the international journal of aesthetics, poetics, stylistics, and interpretation of film and literature, is a quarterly journal that publishes articles that critically examine both literature and film. On literature, it solicits studies of such traditional subjects as metrics, diction, grammar, and syntax, figures of speech and other rhetorical devices, the relations between literary and linguistic study, and the styles of authors, genres, and periods. On film and literature, Style welcomes essays examining theory, hermeneutics, conventions, structures, effects, processes of reading or interpretation, and problems of narratology. Style also publishes reviews of recent books on aesthetics, poetics, stylistics, and other standard literary, cinematic, and critical subjects"
  Abstracts aller Artikel sind frei zugänglich. Siehe insbes.: "Narrative: The Nice Conference"; in: Style Vol.26 Number 3
  www.engl.niu.edu/style/archives/abs26_3.htm

 

• Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies

D. Research Centers and Individual Researchers

• Centre de Narratologie Appliquee (C.N.A.)
  
  "Approche sémiotique et narratologique du texte littéraire, filmique, iconographique ...  intertextualité...
  Etude des procédés de communication et díécriture dont disposent les auteurs pour réaliser leur projet.
  Problèmes de terminologie narratologiques: les différents modes de discours (représentation, narration, description), la représentation du temps et de l'espace, l'auteur, le lecteur, le narrateur, le personnage, la voix narrative ... "

 

• NarrPort - the narratological web-portal at Hamburg University

 

• The Liquid Narrative Group
  
  "The Liquid Narrative research group at North Carolina State University's Computer Science Department uses techniques from Artificial Intelligence, Computer Gaming, Human-Computer Interaction, Virtual Reality and Cognitive Psychology to model narrative aspects of human interaction with computer systems. Our investigation is motivated by fundamental ideas from narrative theory and looks to provide computational models of interaction useful across a wide range of applications..."

 

• Arbeitsgruppe Narrativik an der Philipps Universität Marburg

The 'Marburger Arbeitsgruppe Narrativik' researches the WHO and HOW of narrating.

• Marie Laure Ryan's Website: Articles on narrative theory
  
  Abstracts and links for Ryan's narratological projects.

E. Teaching

Grundkurs Narratologie – Studies in Narrative Formations I

An E-Learning introduction to Narratology (in German) developed at Hamburg University