Narrative and Narrator
| Brewer, W. F., & Lichtenstein, E. H. (1982).
Stories are to entertain: A structural-affect theory of stories. Journal
of Pragmatics, 6, 473-486. |
Bortolussi, Marisa, and Peter Dixon. Psychonarratology:
Foundations for the Empirical Study of Literary Response. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003. |
- plan understanding: goals enhance recall (474)
- narrative understanding: mental model, temporal alteration, point
of view, etc. (476)
- story schema; discourse force as purpose of text (477)
- stories are to entertain (478)
- discourse structures: surprise, suspense, curiosity; effect on story
liking (480-2)
- differing affect curves predict ratings for story liking and whether
a story (482-3)
- popular stories show affect curves, whereas avant-garde do not (484)
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- Narrator as participant (60)
- Status of narrator: still a "person" (63-5)
- Multiple entities in narrative (69)
- Reader creates narrator: shares values, is cooperative (72-3)*
- Narrator and author relationship; model of narrator (75-7)
- Narrator and narratee (78-9)
- Attributions or inferences about narrator; or associated with a character
(80-82)
- Inference invitations (81-2)
- Unreliable narrators (82-4)
- Implicatures and identification with narrator (87-9)
- Transparency of character (89)
- Reducing implicatures = lower transparency (91-4)
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*Grice maxims: Quality, quantity, relevance, manner
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Document prepared March 15th 2007
Narrator as participant (60)
Status of narrator: still a "person" (63-5)
Multiple entities in narrative (69)
Reader creates narrator: shares values, is cooperative (72-3)
Narrator and author relationship; model of narrator (75-7)
Narrator and narratee (78-9)
Attributions or inferences about narrator; or associated with a character (80-82)
Inference invitations (81-2)
Unreliable narrators (82-4)
Implicatures and identification with narrator (87-9)
Transparency of character (89)
Reducing implicatures = lower transparency (91-4)