What is it about?
The book offers a novel approach to the question of how to model narrativity against the background of perspectivization. By bringing together contributions from neuro- and cognitive linguistics, literary studies, and picture theory, the volume uncovers basic mechanisms of perspectivization that are common to the different levels of linguistic structure, literary novels, and narrative pictures. As such, it is also a book on narrative perspectivization since its contributions examine in detail the perspectival principles in medieval, romantic and postmodern literature, in the micro-linguistic structure of language, narrative pictures, literary novels, dramatic texts, and everyday stories.
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Why is it important?
The volume contributes both to the theoretical debate on the core definition of narrativity and offers new empirical investigations on perspectival principles in specific historical, medial, and genre constellations. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of cognitive linguistics, narrative research and (transmedial) narratology, cognitive poetics, and stylistics.
Perspectives
This is a book on 'perspectivization' and 'narrativity'. We argue that what is crucial to 'narrativity' is the perspectival constellation in narrative texts. Against this background, the contributions investigate how the perspectival patterns of narrativity are modelled on the micro- and macro-level as well as in different historical, medial and genre realizations.
Dr Sonja Zeman
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
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This page is a summary of: Perspectives on Narrativity and Narrative Perspectivization, February 2016, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/lal.21.
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