Anyone here into narratology ?

>>10014282
it usually gets brought up in intro/survey courses, with the odd specialist here or there, but it's not a majorly popular/prevalent school of theory at the cutting edge

>>10014297
Thx thats interesting, wonder why…I think maybe here and elsewhere in Europe they're really sold on the scientific mission it has but I can imagine that'd be kind of suspicious or not as preferable as speculative/continental stuff?

>>10014282
I am a pleb. Care to give a quick summary of narratology for me?

>>10014282
pseudoscience

>>10015204
Yeah a fair bit of it feels like it esp the cognitive stuff... still, better than only studying authors, periods, themes

>>10015118
>>10015118
I guess the definition you tend to get is like.. narratology is 1) the theory and 2) the study of narrative representation. It basically started out as the attempt to figure out a sort of grammar of narrative in all its different forms, looking for formulas and principles and universal generic features. The big qn then of what makes something "narrative" is still one of the big qns for narratologists today, but the discipline has also evolved over the last 40 years into lots of subdisciplines like postructuralist & feminist narratologies in the 80s (narratives in their historical & ideological contexts), transmedial narratology (narrativity in film, games, images etc) in the 90s and onwards, cognitive narratology (what happens in our minds in order for us to understand something as a story), and various other attempts at interdisciplinarity (how narratives are actually "everywhere"). A lot of terms u prob are familiar with like unreliable narrator, narrative arc, point of view etc are topics of loooong discussions in narratology.