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Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives, edited by Divya Dwivedi, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Richard Walsh, brings together many of the most prominent figures in the interface between narratology and postcolonial criticism. While narrative theory has for some time recognized the importance of context in the analysis of fiction, this recognition has not quickly translated into substantial work in fields like postcolonialism, where situated questions of value and ideology have been brought to the fore. Postcolonial criticism, on the other hand, has often neglected the formal qualities of fiction in preference for ideological thematic interpretations, precisely because of the suspect legacy of formalism. The volume, then, stages a meeting between these two fields, negotiating both narratological and postcolonialist concerns by addressing specific features of narrative form and technique in the ideological analysis of key postcolonial texts. The thirteen essays in Narratology and Ideology offer compelling readings of individual novels, with a focus upon South Asian literature, that provide a cumulative case study on the value of postcolonial narratology. The essays show not only how narrative theory can be productively applied in service of postcolonial criticism but also how such attention to postcolonial fictions can challenge and refine our theoretical understanding of narrative.

Narratologi er teorien om fortAellinger. Forstaet i snAever forstand hAenger narratologi sammen med den franske strukturalisme og med studiet af litterAere teksters forlob, struktur og udsigelse. I dag anvendes narratologi som samlebetegnelse for et bredere felt af erkendelsesinteresser, der arbejder videre med de sporgsmal, som strukturalismens narratologer rejste, men stiller disse sporgsmal pa nye mader og til et materiale, der rAekker fra litterAere fortAellinger over computerspil, tegneserier og film til ikke-fiktive fortAellinger som f.eks. biografier og historieskrivning. Denne antologi prAesenterer den klassiske narratologis grundtekster, belyser narratologiens udvikling og giver indblik i de diskussioner, som dominerer de nyeste narratologiske teorier. Sporgsmal som: hvem taler, og hvorfor tales der, diskuteres i sammenhAeng med sporgsmal om medie, tid, fiktion og etik i oversAettelser af Wayne C. Booth, Franz K. Stanzel, Gerard Genette, Seymour Chatman, Dorrit Cohn, Monika Fludernik, Brian Richardson og James Phelan.

A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative offers a collection of foundational essays introducing the reader to the full scope of unnatural narrative theory: its meaning, its goals, its extent, its paradoxes. This volume brings together a distinguished group of international critics, scholars, and historians that includes several of the world's leading narrative theorists. Together, they survey many basic areas of narrative studies from an unnatural perspective: story, time, space, voice, minds, narrative levels, “realism,” nonfiction, hyperfiction, and narrative poetry. Rarely have these fundamental concepts been subjected to such an original and thoroughgoing reconceptualization. Much of the book is directed toward an investigation of experimental and antirealist work. Each essay focuses on texts and episodes that narrative theory has tended to neglect, and each provides theoretical formulations that are commensurate with such exceptional, albeit neglected, works. A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative articulates and delineates the newest and most radical movement in narrative studies. This anthology will be of great interest to students and scholars of narrative studies and of the history and theory of modern fiction.

Sporgsmalet om fiktion er et af de mest omdiskuterede inden for litteraturteori og fortAelleteori. Ikke sjAeldent glider sporgsmal om tre forskellige termer umAerkeligt sammen, nemlig sporgsmalene om fiktion, om fortAelling og om litteratur. I dette nummer af K&K belyses forskellige aspekter af fiktion og fiktionalitet - pa tvAers af genrer og udtryksformer, og pa tvAers af det, vi til daglig betragter som virkeligt eller fundet pa.

From its beginnings narratology has incorporated a communicative model of literary narratives, considering these as simulations of natural, oral acts of communication. This approach, however, has had some problems with accounting for the strangeness and anomalies of modern and postmodern narratives. As many skeptics have shown, not even classical realism conforms to the standard set by oral or ‘natural'storytelling. Thus, an urge to confront narratology with the difficult task of reconsidering a most basic premise in its theoretical and analytical endeavors has, for some time, been undeniable. During the 2000s, Nordic narratologists have been among the most active and insistent critics of the communicative model. They share a marked skepticism towards the idea of using ‘natural'narratives as a model for understanding and interpreting all kinds of narratives, and for all of them, the distinction of fiction is of vital importance. This anthology presents a collection of new articles that deal with strange narratives, narratives of the strange, or, more generally, with the strangeness of fiction, and even with some strange aspects of narratology.

Mord, hor og ord. Nar Steen Steensen Blicher, Bret Easton Ellis og Jorgen Leth skriver om sex og vold med henholdsvis Steen Steensen Blicher, Bret Easton Ellis og Jorgen Leth som stAerkt involverede deltagere, er det sa litterAer fiktion eller underskrevne tilstaelser? Sporgsmal som disse har ikke mindst de senere ar sat hede debatter i gang i Danmark. Selvskreven - Om litterAer selvfremstilling er en bog om forholdet mellem vAerk og forfatter i krydsfeltet mellem fiktion og virkelighed. Forholdet problematiseres stAerkt fra mindst to sider i teori og praksis i dag. Ofte finder man for meget forfatter i fiktionen, men ogsa for meget fiktion i selvbiografierne til at det passer ind i gAengse opfattelser og teoridannelser. Det gor, at sporgsmalet om forholdet mellem vAerk og forfatter rejses pa nye mader. I bogen gor skribenterne rede for teorier og strategier i sadanne hybride vAerker og forfatterskaber. Teoretiske artikler om forholdet mellem forfatter og fortAeller og mellem fx referentialitet og rejseskildring veksler med mere lAesningsorienterede analyser af enkeltvAerker. LAesninger af aktuelle danske og udenlandske vAerker som Jorgen Leths Det uperfekte menneske og Dag Solstads 16.07.41 Romangiver sammen med analyser af forfattere som Hoeg og Hojholt anledning til at kaste nyt lys over kanoniserede, Aeldre forfattere som Bang og Blicher.