Basic Elements of Narrative by David Herman

Author:David Herman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2011-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

Narrative Worlds: A Survey of Approaches

Having discussed how story openings trigger particular kinds of worldmaking strategies that cut across storytelling media and narrative genres, but that are also inflected by the specific constraints and affordances of various kinds and modes of narrative practice, I now survey a range of approaches to the scope and nature of narrative worlds. I start with accounts that characterize the experience of narrative worlds in a relatively macrostructural or gestalt way and then move toward more microstructural approaches that seek to anchor types of inferences about story-worlds (including their temporal and spatial dimensions) in particular kinds of textual designs. My next section builds on this work to show how narratological approaches to time and space can be recontextualized – better understood – as part of a broader inquiry into narrative ways of worldmaking, and in particular the WHERE and WHEN components of the world-building process.

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