General information about the event
Program: The program will consist of plenary key-note lectures (60-minute presentation, 30-minute discussion) and Ph.D.-students’ presentations. Each participant will give a 20-minute presentation followed by a 20-minute plenary discussion.
Working language: English.
Credits (TBLT students): 2/5 ECTS. Participation and presentation will result in 2 ECTS. Working over and submitting an edited version of the presentation (10-12 pages) after the seminar, will yield an additional 3 ECTS. Signed and authorized course diplomas will upon request be bestowed upon each PhD student participant having completed the course.
Credits (IKK students): Participation and presentation will result in ca. 3 ECTS.
Hotel: Hotel reservations will be made by the participants themselves. Up to four nights will be reimbursed (up to 154 Euro per night) for students from the institutions participating in TBLR.
Meals: Lunch every day and dinner Wednesday and Thursday nights.
Travel: PhD students are expected to cover their own travel expenses.
Reading list
Barthes, R. (1966) Introduction to the structural analysis of the narrative. University of Birmingham. http://epapers.bham.ac.uk/2961/
Boyd, Brian “Implied Authors and Imposed Narrators—or Actual Authors?”, in Sylvie Patron, ed., Optional-Narrator Theory: Principles, Perspectives, Proposals, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, “Frontiers of Narrative”, 2021, pp. 53-71.
Culler, Jonathan “Some Problems concerning Narrators of Novels and Speakers of Poems”, in Sylvie Patron, ed., Optional-Narrator Theory: Principles, Perspectives, Proposals, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, “Frontiers of Narrative”, 2021, pp. 37-52.
Kreiswirth, Martin (2005). "Narrative Turn in the Humanities," Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Eds. David Herman, Manfred Jahn, and Marie-Laure Ryan: Routledge, 2005: 377-382.
Kreiswirth, Martin (1992). Trusting the Tale: The Narrativist Turn in the Human Sciences. New Literary History, 23(3), 629–657. https://doi.org/10.2307/469223
Livingston, Paisley “A Paradox of Cinematic Narration”, in Sylvie Patron, ed., Optional-Narrator Theory: Principles, Perspectives, Proposals, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, “Frontiers of Narrative”, 2021, pp. 259-272.
Nielsen, Henrik, Phelan, J. and Walsh (2015) “Ten Theses of Fictionality” Narrative The Ohio State University Press Volume 23, Number 1, January 2015 pp. 61-73, DOI10.1353/nar.2015.0005
Pignagnoli, V. (2019) “Changing dominants, changing features? The fiction/nonfiction distinction in contemporary literary and Instagram narratives,” European journal of English studies, 23(2), pp. 224–238.
Smith and Montfort (2020) "Stories, new materialism and pluralism : understanding, practising and pushing the boundaries of narrative analysis"
Woods, Angela, Akiko Hart and Helen Spandler (2022) "The Recovery Narrative: Politics and Possibility of a Genre."
Zetterberg-Nielsen, S. and Zetterberg-Nielsen, H. (2020) 2020 “Distinguishing Fictionality”. Exploring Fictionality. Conceptions, Test Cases, Discussions pp. 19-40
More information : https://www.ntnu.no/tblr