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Relevance and Narrative Research

von: Matei Chihaia, Katharina Rennhak, Raphaël Baroni, Carsten Breul, Elke D'hoker, Sebastian Domsch, Luis Galván, Sonja Klimek, Susan Lanser, Andreas Mahler, Michael Ranta, Susanne Schlünder
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Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	28.03.2019
ISBN/EAN:	9781498586832
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	232

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Titelbeschreibung

“Relevance” is one of the most widely used buzz words in academic and other socio-political discourses and institutions today, which constantly ask us to “be relevant.” To date, there is no profound scholarly conceptualization of the term, however, which is widely accepted in the humanities. Relevance and Narrative Research closes this gap by initiating a discussion which turns the vaguely defined evaluative tool “relevance” into an object of study. The contributors to this volume do so by firmly situating questions of relevance in the context of narrative theory. Briefly put, they ask either “What can ‘relevance’ do for narrative research?” or “What can narrative research do for better understanding ‘relevance?’” or both. The basic assumption is that relevance is a relational term. Further assuming that most (if not all) relations which human beings encounter within their cultures are narratively constructed, the contributors to this volume suggest that reflections on narrative and narrative research are fundamental to any endeavor to conceptualize notions of “relevance.”

Titelkurzbeschreibung

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
 
 
Introduction: The Dialectics of Relevance and Narrative Research
 
 
Matei Chihaia and Katharina Rennhak
 
 
 
 
Part 1. The Politics of Narrative Relevance
 
 
 
 
Chapter 1. The (Ir)Relevance of Narratology
 
 
Susan S. Lanser
 
 
Chapter 2. Disciplining Relevance: On Manifest and Latent Functions of Narratives
 
 
Andreas Mahler
 
 
 
 
Part 2. The Logic of Narrative Relevance
 
 
 
 
Chapter 3. Relevant Logics, Counterfactual Worlds, and the Understanding of Narrative
 
 
Luis Galván
 
 
Chapter 4. Relevance Theory and Literary Studies—and Some Thoughts on Paul Torday’s The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce
 
 
Carsten Breul
 
 
Chapter 5. Communication, Life, and Dangerous Things: On Relevance and Tellability in Pictures
 
 
Michael Ranta
 
 
 
 
Part 3. The Relativity of Relevance
 
 
 
 
Chapter 6. The Relevance of Irrelevance in Mimetic Narratives: Guess What…
 
 
Raphaël Baroni
 
 
Chapter 7. Narrating Random Probes: The Ideal of “Slice-of-Life”
 
 
Sebastian Domsch
 
 
 
 
Part 4. (Ir)Relevance and Narrative Genres
 
 
 
 
Chapter 8. Relevance Theory in Contemporary Narratology: Processing Meaning from Narrative Texts
 
 
Sonja Klimek
 
 
Chapter 9. “Less is More”: Narrative Strategies of Reduction and the Construct of (Ir)Relevance in the Works of Three French Minimalist Authors
 
 
Susanne Schlünder
 
 
Chapter 10. The Relevance of Narrative Theory for the Study of Short Fiction: The Case of First-Person Present-Tense Narration
 
 
Elke D’hoker
 
 
 
 
Index
 
 
About the Editors
 
 
About the Contributors

Autorenportrait

Matei Chihaia 
is professor of French and Spanish literature at the University of Wuppertal. 
Katharina Rennhak
 is professor of English literature at the University of Wuppertal.