Mainstream Complexity. Nolan’s Inception as a Case for (Amateur) Narratologists by Annie Van Den Oever

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Topographic Transmissions and How To Talk About Them: The Case of the Southern Spa in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction by Benjamin Morgan

“…At the same time it will consider the semiotic theories of Iurii Lotman’s Tartu-Moscow School and the ‘transtextual’ apparatus of the French narratologist Gérard Genette as ‘toolboxes’ for work on place in narrative.…”
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Narratology of Kalile and Demne Anecdotes at the level of Story Relying on King and Barhamnan’s Anecdote by Masoumeh NazariCharvdeh, Amir Esmaaeil Aazar, Farhad Tahmasbi

“…In general, it is said that Kalile and Demne anecdotes conform to the structural narratologist’s opinions. In conclusion, we can almost delineate a similar narrative structure for Kalile and Demne anecdotes.…”
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A narrativa mediada e a permanência da tradição: percurso de um anti-herói brasileiro by Luiz Gonzaga Motta

“…It freely applies the procedures proposed by the Russian narratologist Vladimir Propp in a typical product of the cultural industry to comprehend the narrative of a Brazilian modern anti-hero. …”
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Dictation and Narration: A Genettian study of Gabriel García Márquez’s "El otoño del patriarca" by Paul Stephen Hyland

“…</em>I pay particular attention to the role of its circular temporality and constantly shifting narrative voice, examining these closely through the lens of structuralist narratologist Gérard Genette's 1972 <em>Narrative Discourse</em>.  …”
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The Inspiration for Writing Makhzan-ol-Asrār and Eskandar-nāme by NIZāmi based on Action Discourse by Khalil Baygzade, لیلا Rahmatian

“…Extended Abstract Lithuanian narratologist A. J. Greimas has presented a coherent model of modern sign- semantics for the study of narrative, arguing that the recognition of literary texts is no longer based on structural analysis and recognition of sender and receiver, but that the process of meaning production in the text, from transmission to reception, is based on functional elements. …”
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The Effect of Transformation on Changing the Role of Characters in a Selection of Folk Tales by Ataollah Koopal, Saboureh Rangraz

“…"Claude Bremond" is one of the narratologists who, based on the "Theory of Possibilities", divided the structuralists’ intended Actant into two general categories: "agent" and "patient" based on activism and passivity characteristics, and determined certain characteristics for them. …”
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<i>Narrative</i> as a term in narratology and music theory by Smiljana Narančić Kovač, Iva Kovač

“…The paper compares the term narrative as it is used by narratologists, and as it is used by music scholars, to establish whether these two disciplines use the term in the same way, or as two homonyms. …”
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The Plot of Suffi's Revelations by mahsa rone, Mohammad Shafi Saffari

“…What structuralist narratologists have in common is that, instead of analyzing the actants of a literary genre based on traditional rhetoric, they analyze a literary genre as a systematic structure whose actants have internal links together. …”
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Reading the Miller's Tale Reading the Miller's Tale by Valerie Edden

“…Traditionally we have tended to confine literary analysis to the words&#13; on the page; narratologists and structuralists invite us to examine also what the reader brings to the text. …”
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Doubly Real: Game Studies and Literary Anthropology; or, Why We Play Games by Philipp Schweighauser

“…More importantly, even when they do study narrative texts, literary scholars--be they narratologists or not--are not always interested in the forms and functions of stories. …”
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Continuity and break points: some aspects of the contemporary debate in narrative theory by Franco Passalacqua, Federico Pianzola

“…Our conclusions highlight the continuity and the break points between contemporary theories, soliciting narratologists to answer to the many questions raised.…”
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The Use of Free Indirect Discourse in J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series by Evie Kendal

“…Although the romance genre has received a lot of attention in feminist and gender studies, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, it is still largely ignored by narratologists and other literary theorists. When romance is subjected to any scholarly treatment it tends to be as a cultural phenomenon, and in bulk, rather than as individual texts. …”

Unseeing People: Towards a Clear View of Invisible Characters in Narrative Fiction by Gero Guttzeit

“…It maintains that invisible characters emerge in a literary field structured by 1) the socio-political opposition between power and powerlessness; 2) the continuum of realist and non-realist genres; and 3) the form of narration as such, particularly in what narratologists define as focalisation. In such fashion, an analysis of literary ‘unseeing’ in the sense developed in China Miéville’s novel The City &#38; The City (2009) will enable a deeper understanding of social invisibilisation.…”
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BOOK REVIEW: PAUL B. ARMSTRONG, “STORIES AND THE BRAIN: THE NEUROSCIENCE OF NARRATIVE”, BALTIMORE, JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2020, 259 P. by Ada BELEUŢĂ

“…To him, it appears that, “in their zeal to reject a Cartesian splitting of mind and body” (5), narratologists tend to overlook brain-based research in order to draw instead on psychological or philosophical perspectives. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: PAUL B. ARMSTRONG, “STORIES AND THE BRAIN: THE NEUROSCIENCE OF NARRATIVE”, BALTIMORE, JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2020, 259 P. by Ada BELEUŢĂ

“…To him, it appears that, “in their zeal to reject a Cartesian splitting of mind and body” (5), narratologists tend to overlook brain-based research in order to draw instead on psychological or philosophical perspectives. …”
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Existentialist Roots of Narrative Actants by David Herman

“…But existentialist theories of the self may also have inflected the way structuralist narratologists drew on linguistic theory to redescribe characters in stories as actants. …”
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Game as text as game: the communicative experience of digital games by Carlos Magno Camargos Mendonça, Filipe Alves de Freitas

“…This option seems to put us in sync with the narratologists, who exalt games as new manifestations of narrative, but cling to a conception of text as world that values illusionist effects. …”
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Comparative analysis of “Dolls retail“by Sadeq Chubak and “A Corpse on the Pavement’’ by Saadallah Wannous by Saleh Bek Majid, Fatemeh Bayatfar

“…For this purpose, we studied the narrative structure of two mentioned works based on theories of great narratologists such as “William Lebow’’, “Greimas’’ and “Gérard Genette’’ in four sections of character, plot, and time and place perspective. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: IOANA-GABRIELA NAN, ”TRUE TALES. A CASE FOR LITERARY JOURNALISM”, CLUJ-NAPOCA, CASA CĂRȚII DE ȘTIINȚĂ, 2018, 279 P. by Mircea MINICĂ

“…From Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood to the latest controversy sparked by Karl Ove Knausgaard’s extremely popular and richly award­ed My Struggle, the question of fact versus fiction has preoccupied linguists, semanticists and narratologists alike. The author acknowledges such previous contributions by summing up the existing research on the issue in all these fields. …”
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