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Narrative & Narratology Metamorphosing the Structures narrative & narratology metamorphosing the structures enn european narratology network international conference th september 13−15, 2017 5 prague narrative & narratology metamorphosing the structures enn european narratology network international conference th september 13−15, 2017 5 prague enn enn [email protected] 2016, Vlček, © Jaroslav 5th 5th narrative & narratology metamorphosing the structures enn european narratology network international conference th september 13−15, 2017 5 prague narrative & narratology metamorphosing the structures enn european narratology network international conference th september 13−15, 2017 5 prague enn enn 5th 5th programme Wednesday, September 13 / Morning KOTĚRA HALL 9:00 to 9:30 Opening 9:30 to 10:30 – Keynote 1 The Slavic cradle of narratology: From Shklovsky’s “defamiliarization” to Mukařovský’s “semantic gesture” Wolf Schmid (University of Hamburg) 10:30 to 11:00 – Discussion JANÁK HALL KREJCAR HALL HALL 112 & 113 HALL 201 HALL 202 11:00 to 11:30 narratological approaches to religious film narrative and narration narratives in communication narratives drama, theatre, and audionarratology experimental humanities panel Chair: Radomír D. Kokeš (Masaryk University, Chair: Sylvie Patron (University of Paris Diderot) Chair: David Stromberg (Hebrew University of Chair: Jan Horstmann (University of Hamburg) Chair: Tobias Hermans (Ghent University) Brno) Jerusalem) Making sense of film narrative: The Kuleshov The art of deception: Knowledge distribution Master narrative, genre and the paradox of The stories of the Hebrew bible: Four Narrative retelling and figuration in the effect revisited in narrative and drama 11:30 to 12:10 tellability structural features that challenge readers 19th-century novel Colin Davis (Royal Holloway, University of Daniel Schäbler (Friedrich-Alexander University 12:10 to 12:30 – Discussion Matti Hyvärinen (University of Tampere) Greger Andersson (Örebro University) Elizabeth Ryba (Indiana University) London) Erlangen-Nürnberg / University of Wuppertal) “Under an incredible microscope”: Revising The narrativization of Talmudic literature’s Diegetic theatre and Iranian contemporary S. Eisenstein’s and J. Joyce’s conceptions of Back to the structure: Deconstructing illness basic structures: Diachronic narratology, This is why you should attend this talk: drama structure narratives computational perspectives Clickbait and the reception of news stories Parastoo Mohebbi (Islamic Azad University, Ludmila Comuzzi (Saratov National Research Mariarosa Loddo (University of Eastern Piedmont) Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky (University of Tobias Hermans (Ghent University) Tehran) University, Balashov Institute) Hamburg) 12:30 to 13:30 Wednesday, September 13 / Afternoon JANÁK HALL KREJCAR HALL HALL 112 & 113 HALL 201 HALL 202 narrative, personal relevance, and the reconsidering narrative elements film narrative and narration narratives in communication drama, theatre, and audionarratology reader’s boundaries Chair: Bohumil Fořt (Institute of Czech Chair: Joshua Parker (University of Salzburg) Chair: Sylvie Patron (University of Paris Diderot) Chair: Jan Horstmann (University of Hamburg) Chair: Anežka Kuzmičová (Stockholm University) Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences) Entrance of the radio play into the narrative Narrative structure in comparative More than three hours…? Research of Beyond the soldier’s tale? Strong narrativity Personal relevance in narrative reading culture of Czechoslovakia between the World perspective: Temporality, spatiality and (Hollywood’s) narrative principles in very long and trauma in the study of military memoir Anežka Kuzmičová (Stockholm University), Wars unity films Matthew Voice (University of Sheffield) Katalin Bálint (Tilburg University) Aleš Merenus (Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Huaiyu Luo (Beijing University of Chemical Radomír D. Kokeš (Masaryk University, Brno) 13:30 to 14:30 Academy of Sciences) Technology) 14:30 to 14:45 – Discussion Beating illness into shape: Structure and the Atte Jongstra’s literary radio play Der Herr A narrator with personal needs: Narrative Narrativity and cine-city narratives: Prague in illness narrative verlangt sein Hut (1988): New perspectives drive in Salinger’s “Seymour; An 14:45 to 15:10 Cosmic narratives, personal relevance? film Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar (Avans University on the representation of speech and Introduction” (1959) Marco Caracciolo (Ghent University) Irina Melnikova (Vilnius University) of Applied Sciences), Emma Frances O’Connor consciousness David Stromberg (Hebrew University of (Sheffield Hallam University; Sheffield University) Evelien Verschueren (Ghent University) Jerusalem) The relevance of irrelevance and the greatest The problem of double narrative: Program Chronological order and the narrative stories never told music in literature present Dan Irving (Stony Brook University) Giedrė Smolskaitė (Vilnius University) Eyal Segal (Tel Aviv University) emerging vectors of narratology: an multiperspectivity and cultural memory historical narratology: author and story forms and models characters and minds overview Chair: Ondřej Sládek (Institute of Czech Literature, narrator revisited Chair: Bohumil Fořt (Institute of Czech Literature, Chair: Richard Müller (Institute of Czech Chair: John Pier (University of Tours / Centre de Czech Academy of Sciences) Chair: Alice Jedličková (Institute of Czech Czech Academy of Sciences) Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences) recherche sur les arts et le langage, CNRS, Paris) Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences) Trojan memories: On the problem of having Can small stories research be interesting in Minding fiction: Real world concepts and Narrator-less narrative and reception in Cultural and historical perspectives alternate endings in medieval literature the research on literary narratives? fictional minds antiquity Wolf Schmid (University of Hamburg) Sabine Heidi Walther (University of Copenhagen / Sylvie Patron (University of Paris Diderot) Filip Krtička (Charles University, Prague) Stefan Tilg (University of Freiburg) University of Bonn) 15:10 to 16:30 Narrative as communication On the politics of form: Narrative reliability Individual differences in characters – insights Author, narrator and narrative experience Theorizing the whodunit 16:30 to 16:50 – Discussion Per Krogh Hansen (University of Southern and colonial discourse in Camus’ L’Étranger from building a generative model in medieval literature Göran Rossholm (Stockholm University) Denmark) Marta Puxan-Oliva (University of Barcelona) Leonid Berov (Osnabrück University) Eva von Contzen (University of Freiburg) 16:50 to 17:10 Narrative turn and frameworks for narrative The orator, the poet and narratorial play in Commentology Narratological model and historical narrative The structure of personal narrative and the theory early modern narrative theory and practice Yizhong Ning (Beijing Language and Culture Ivan Jančovič, Juraj Šuch (Matej Bel University, problem of the literary character Philippe Roussin (Centre de recherche sur les arts Rahel Orgis (University of Neuchâtel / University) Banská Bystrica) Katarzyna Filutowska (University of Warsaw) et le langage, CNRS/EHESS, Paris) University of Freiburg) Genre blending in tragicomedy: The Winter’s Cognitive, evolutionary and logical contexts Disrupting immersion: Reader and narrator Tale John Pier (University of Tours / Centre de in Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver’s Travels Michael Sinding (Friedrich-Alexander University recherche sur les arts et le langage, CNRS, Paris) Hannah Blincko (University of Freiburg) Erlangen-Nürnberg) KOTĚRA HALL 17:10 to 18:10 – Keynote 2 Toward an object-oriented narratology: On the material turn in contemporary fiction 18:10 to 18:30 – Discussion Marie-Laure Ryan (University of Colorado, Boulder) 18:30 – Welcome drink Thursday, September 14 / Morning JANÁK HALL KREJCAR HALL HALL 112 & 113 HALL 201 HALL 202 between visual structure and reception: tradition and metamorphoses of the postmodern narrative strategies “comics, infographics, history paintings narrative & experience possible worlds and interpretation prague school Chair: Josef Šebek (Institute of Czech Literature, and cartoons” Chair: Anežka Kuzmičová (Stockholm University) Chair: Göran Rossholm (Stockholm University) Chair: Wolf Schmid (University of Hamburg) Czech Academy of Sciences) Chair: Karin Kukkonen (University of Oslo) Metafiction, metanarration, and The Prague School and narratology Visual narrative grammar: The structure of Brion Gysin, cut-ups, and “peinture Narrative worlds: Between autonomy and metacharacter in Lydia Davis’s The End of the Ondřej Sládek (Institute of Czech Literature, Czech sequential images contemporaine”: Narrating experience interdependence Story Academy of Sciences) Neil Cohn (Tilburg University) Daria Baryshnikova (Bielefeld University) Moshe Simon-Shoshan (Bar-Ilan University) James Harker (Bard College Berlin) The base-narrativity of “manga-esque” The Prague School between worlds, illusions, From metadiscourse to “diatext”: Towards infographics and pictograms: Contemporary Narrative empathy in novels of social Multiple possible worlds and authorial control and minds the narrative mediality of postmodern 9:00 to 10:20 Japanese public spaces and narrative criticism: Strangely effective in Edgar Allan Poe’s “Ligeia” Bohumil Fořt (Institute of Czech Literature, Czech literature 10:20 to 10:40 – Discussion comprehension Ellen Beyaert (Ghent University) Wanlin Li (Peking University) Academy of Sciences) Tomáš Jirsa
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