The search for the defining qualities of narrative has produced an
expansive range of definitions which, largely unconnected with each
other, obscure the notion of "narrativity" rather than clarifying
it. The first part of this study remedies this shortcoming by
developing a graded macro model of narrativity which serves three
aims. Firstly, it provides a structured overview of the field of
narrative elements and processes. Secondly, it facilitates the
classification of narratological approaches by locating them on
different stages of narrativity. Finally, it focuses attention on
narrative dynamics as interpretative processes by which readers
seek to produce narrative coherence. The second part of this study
identifies three different narrative dynamics which characterise
Laclos's "Dangerous Connections," Kafka's "Castle" and Toussaint's
novels. Wagner bases her analyses of these dynamics not only on the
texts themselves but also on the ways in which literary scholars
imbue the texts with narrative coherence. This book provides a long
overdue systematisation of the jumbled field of theories of
narrativity and opens new perspectives on the difficult
relationship between narrative theory and interpretation.
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