The present volume is targeted at an interdisciplinary audience, i.e. partly at literary scholars/narratologists interested in time theory outside their field, and partly at scholars outside literary studies who in turn would like to learn more about such concepts created in narrative theory. The anthology assembles both English-speaking and German contributions to a narrative theory of time constructs which have thus far not been translated into English, but have - directly or indirectly - inspired the theoretical discourse across disciplines. The common methodological focus of the articles assembled here concerns the way in which the experience of chronological structure and ordering in (experienced or imagined) phenomena can be traced back to a logic of time "constructs". Narrative time constructs - that is: models of chronological ordering which we generate while processing narratively encoded information - constitute a particularly rich body of examples. How we experience time is directly linked to how we narrate information, and how we re-construct principles of temporal ordering in the narrated content. The logic of narrative time constructs has therefore been of interest not only to narrative theory, but also to philosophy and cognitive science, and more recently to computational approaches toward modelling human time experience.

This anthology presents the results of the Second International Colloquium of the Narratology Research Group (Hamburg University). It engages in the exploration of approaches that broaden Narratology's realm. The contributions illustrate the transcendence of traditional models common to Narratology. They also reflect on the relevance of such a 'going beyond' as seen in more general terms: What interrelation can be observed between re-definition of object domain and re-definition of method? What potential interfaces with other methods and disciplines does the proposed innovation offer? Finally, what are the repercussions of the proposed innovation in terms of Narratology's self-definition? The innovative volume facilitates the inter-methodological debate between Narratology and other disciplines, enabling the conceptualization of a Narratology beyond traditional Literary Criticism.

"Computing Action" takes a new approach to the phenomenon of narrated action in literary texts. It begins with a survey of philosophical approaches to the concept of action, ranging from analytical to transcendental and finally constructivist definitions. This leads to the formulation of a new model of action, in which the core definitions developed in traditional structuralist narratology and Greimassian semiotics are reconceptualised in the light of constructivist theories. In the second part of the study, the combinatory model of action proposed is put into practice in the context of a computer-aided investigation of the action constructs logically implied by narrative texts. Two specialised literary computing tools were developed for the purposes of this investigation of textual data: EVENTPARSER, an interactive tool for parsing events in literary texts, and EPITEST, a tool for subjecting the mark-up files thus produced to a combinatory analysis of the episode and action constructs they contain. The third part of the book presents a case study of Goethe's "Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten". Here, the practical application of theory and methodology eventually leads to a new interpretation of Goethe's famous Novellenzyklus as a systematic experiment in the narrative construction of action - an experiment intended to demonstrate not only Goethe's aesthetic principles, but also, and more fundamentally, his epistemological convictions.

Diese Monografie ist die erste umfassende literaturwissenschaftliche Analyse des Gesamtwerks des Schriftstellers, Journalisten, Fotografen und Dokumentarfilmers Heinrich Hauser (1901-1955). Im Fokus steht eine fur die erste Halfte des 20. Jahrhunderts typische Schlusselfrage nach dem Verhaltnis zwischen Mensch und Maschine. Die Autorin beleuchtet das kunstlerische Schaffen Hausers vor dem Hintergrund seiner ideen- und kulturgeschichtlichen Provenienz und zeigt, wie Hauser in seinen Werken den allgemeinen Krisendiskurs der Moderne aufgreift. Daruber hinaus liefert die Publikation einen kritischen Einblick in die Biografie eines Vertreters des Literatursystems der Weimarer Republik, der NS-Zeit und des Exils, der sich einer vereinfachenden Kategorisierung der Literaturgeschichte entzieht.

The volume presents an introduction to the work of the writer Leo Perutz (1882a "1957). Each of the ten chapters deals with one of Perutza (TM) novels, from Die dritte Kugel [The third bullet] through to Der Judas des Leonardo [Leonardoa (TM)s Judas]. In addition to the textual analyses, the volume contains a hitherto unpublished novella and a comprehensive bibliography. In its approach, the volume makes a case for a way of dealing with literary texts which combines structuralist and hermeneutical traditions. Each of the chapters proceeds from a reconstruction of the structure of a text to its interpretation.

Diese Einfuhrung vermittelt die Grundlagen der Erzahltheorie und gibt eine Anleitung zum praktischen Umgang mit Erzahlliteratur. Sie erklart die verschiedenen Aspekte der Erzahltextanalyse (Zeit, Erzahler, Modus, Stimme etc.) anhand von zahlreichen Textbeispielen und Musterinterpretationen. Dabei legen die Autor/innen einen weiten Begriff von Erzahltext zugrunde, der neben dem Kernbereich der fiktionalen Erzahlliteratur auch andere Erzahlformen und -medien umfasst. Mit Definitionen, zahlreichen Textbeispielen und Interpretationen. Fur die dritte Auflage wurde der Band generell durchgesehen sowie aktualisiert und um Kapitel zur digitalen Textanalyse sowie zur Analyse von Comics erweitert.