TY - BOOK AU - Fludernik, Monika AU - Fludernik, Monika TI - Towards a Natural' Narratology SN - 9780415585637 U1 - 801.95 FLU PY - 1996/// CY - New York. PB - : Routledge, KW - Criticism KW - Verteltheorie KW - Prosa N1 - Prologue in the wilderness -- 1. Towards a 'natural' narratology -- 2. Natural narrative and other oral modes -- 3. From the oral to the written: narrative structure before the novel -- 4. The realist paradigm: consciousness, mimesis and the reading of the 'real' -- 5. Reflectorization and figuralization: the malleability of language -- 6. Virgin territories: the strategic expansion of deictic options -- 7. Games with tellers, telling and told -- 8. Natural Narratology -- In lieu of an epilogue N2 - This groundbreaking work of synthesis combines insights from literary theory and linguistics to provide a challenging new theory of narrative. The author argues that recent literature represents the epitome of a century-long developmental process ER -