Marie-Laure Ryan, On the Worldness of Narrative Representation
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The document summarizes Marie-Laure Ryan's theories about narrative representation and storyworlds. It discusses how storyworlds are imagined based on readers' real-world experiences but can differ through elements like contradictions. Storyworld properties include their size and completeness. Narratives like novels and plays create internally coherent worlds, but these worlds can be expanded or modified beyond the original text. The document also contrasts textualist approaches that view the text as about itself versus world approaches that see the text as a blueprint for imagining characters and events in a self-contained world.
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- 1. From possible worlds to storyworlds: On the worldness of narrative representation Marie-Laure Ryan
- 3. Fictional recentering Actual world system Fictional world system
- 4. Principle of minimal departure We imagine fictional storyworlds on the model of our experience of the actual world, except when the text contradicts this experience
- 6. World as container World as network of relations
- 7. One text, several worlds, several stories Narratives with forking paths: Run Lola Run, Butterfly Effect, French Lieutenant’s Woman Cikwgh nyjgugbghgbbutb hbutg bv HZGfvytrk67wtut du,ydl897pzy buybn98
- 8. Cikwgh nyjgugbghgbbutb hbutg bv HZGfvytrk67wtut du,ydl897pzy buybn98 S SS S S One text, one author, one world, many stories Cloud Atlas, Babel
- 9. Cikwgh nyjgugbghgbbutb hbutg bv HZGfvytrk67wtut du,ydl897pzy buybn98 Cikwgh nyjgugbghgbbutb hbutg bv HZGfvytrk67wtut du,ydl897pzy buybn98 Cikwgh nyjgugbghgbbutb hbutg bv HZGfvytrk67wtut du,ydl897pzy buybn98 One world, many texts, many stories Monomedial S S S S SS Novels
- 10. Distance from actual world
- 11. Actual world Verified in AW Could happen in AW Could not happen in AW but logically consistent Distance
- 12. Actual world Verified in AW Could happen in AW Could not happen in AW but logically consistent Logically inconsistent Distance
- 13. A young old man, sitting on a wooden stone, was reading his newspaper which was folded in his pocket, by the light of a street light that had been turned off Non-sense rhyme
- 14. (1) one and the same event is introduced in several conflicting versions ; (2) a place (Hong Kong) is and is not the setting of the novel; (3) the same events are ordered in reversed temporal sequence (A precedes B and B precedes A); and (4) one and the same world entity recurs in several modes of existence—as a literary fictional fact, as a theater performance, as a sculpture, as a painting Contradictions in Alain Robbe-Grillet’s La Maison de Rendez-vous, according to Lubomír Doležel
- 17. Micro-fiction 1. The king died, then the queen died of grief. (E.M. Forster’s example of plot) 2. For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.
- 18. Criterion of worldness: When a text creates a world, we imagine that there is more to this world than the text represents
- 20. Mash-up Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Seth Grahame-Smith
- 22. Ontologically complete world: All propositions are either true or false Ontologically incomplete world: contains logically indeterminate areas (neither true nor false)
- 23. Mimetic pole: Narrative representation Anti-mimetic pole: Pure performance The two poles of the theater according to Philip Auslander
- 25. World of Phèdre Space and events shown on stage
- 26. World of PhèdreNarrated events that take place between the beginning and the end of the pay Space and events shown on stage Return of Theseus Death of Hippolyte
- 27. World of PhèdreNarrated events that take place between the beginning and the end of the pay Space and events shown on stage Spatio-temporal background Return of Theseus Death of Hippolyte Geography of classical Greece Past of the characters as told by myths
- 28. Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett
- 29. World of Waiting for Godot Space and events shown on stage
- 30. World of Waiting for Godot Narrated events that take place between the beginning and the end of the pay Space and events shown on stage
- 31. World of Waiting for Godot Narrated events that take place between the beginning and the end of the pay Space and events shown on stage Spatio- temporal background A few isolated toponyms
- 33. Medium concerned Literature All media Textualism World approach
- 34. Medium concerned Cultural domain Literature High culture All media All levels of culture Textualism World approach
- 35. Medium concerned Cultural domain Prototypical genre Literature High culture Poetry All media All levels of culture Narrative Textualism World approach
- 36. Medium concerned Cultural domain Prototypical genre Conception of meaning Literature High culture Poetry Infinite, endless deferral All media All levels of culture Narrative Blueprint for imagining a world Textualism World approach
- 37. Medium concerned Cultural domain Prototypical genre Conception of meaning What the text is about Literature High culture Poetry Infinite, endless deferral Itself, language All media All levels of culture Narrative Blueprint for imagining a world Characters, events, human problems, etc. Textualism World approach
- 38. Medium concerned Cultural domain Prototypical genre Conception of meaning What the text is about “Textual world” Literature High culture Poetry Infinite, endless deferral Itself, language Sum of meanings unique to text All media All levels of culture Narrative Blueprint for imagining a world Characters, events, human problems, etc. Imagined as existing independently of text Textualism World approach
- 39. Medium concerned Cultural domain Prototypical genre Conception of meaning What the text is about “Textual world” Ideal user experience Literature High culture Poetry Infinite, endless deferral Itself, language Sum of meanings unique to text Appreciating play of language All media All levels of culture Narrative Blueprint for imagining a world Characters, events, human problems, etc. Imagined as existing independently of text Immersion Textualism World approach