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Title Point of view, perspective, and focalization : modeling mediation in narrative / edited by Peter Hühn, Wolf Schmid, Jörg Schönert
Published Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 305 pages) : illustrations
Series Narratologia : contributions to narrative theory, 1612-8427 ; 17
Narratologia ; 17.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Re-Specifications of Perspective -- 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 -- Part II: Some Special Aspects of Mediation -- 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 -- Part III: Transliterary Aspects of Mediation -- 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
Summary 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, par
Notes "The majority of the papers collected in this volume are based on talks given at the conference, "Point of View, Perspective, Focalization: Modeling Mediacy," held at Hamburg University by the Hamburg Research Group "Narratology" (Forschergruppe Narratologie) from October 13 to 15, 2006
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Point of view (Literature) -- Congresses
Mediation -- Congresses
Narration (Rhetoric) -- Congresses
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
Mediation
Narration (Rhetoric)
Point of view (Literature)
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Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Hühn, Peter, 1939-
Schmid, Wolf.
Schönert, Jörg.
Universität Hamburg. Forschergruppe Narratologie.
ISBN 9783110218916
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