Stories do not actually exist in the (fictional or factual) world but are constituted, structured and endowed with meaning through the process of mediation, i.e. they are represented and transmitted through systems of verbal, visual or audio-visual signs. The terms usually proposed to describe aspects of mediation, especially perspective, point of view, and focalization, have yet to bring clarity to this field, which is of central importance, not only for narratology but also for literary and media studies. One crucial problem about mediation concerns the dimensions of its modeling effect, particularly the precise status and constellation of the mediating agents, i.e. author, narrator or presenter and characters. The question is how are the structure and the meaning of the story conditioned by these different positions in relation to the mediated happenings perceived from outside and/or inside the storyworld? In this volume, fourteen articles by international scholars from seven different countries address these problems anew from various angles, reviewing the sub-categorization of mediation and re-specifying its dimensions both in literary texts and other media such as drama and theater, film, and computer games.

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Information

Publisher

De Gruyter

Year

2009

ISBN

9783110218916

Edition

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
The DNS of Mediacy
Focalization: Where Do We Go from Here?
Perspectivization and Focalization: Two Concepts—One Meaning? An Attempt at Conceptual Differentiation
A Brief Introduction to an Enunciative Approach to Point of View
Narrative and Stylistic Agency: The Case of Overt Narration
Beyond Voice and Vision: Cognitive Grammar and Focalization Theory
Plural Focalization, Singular Voices: Wandering Perspectives in “We”-Narration
A Comparative Analysis of Indices of Narrative Point of View in Bulgarian and English
Focalization, the Subject and the Act of Shaping Perspective
Coming to Our Senses: Narratology and the Visual
Organizing the Perspectives: Focalization and the Superordinate Narrative System in Drama and Theater
Focalization, Ocularization and Auricularization in Film and Literature
Film Narratology: Who Tells? Who Shows? Who Focalizes? Narrative Mediation in Self-Reflexive Fiction Films
Perspective in Contemporary Computer Games
Backmatter