Poetics, Narrative and Representation

A brief, pointed narrative about a noteworthy event or characteristic action.

The advance introduction of a later thought, event, objection, or linguistic element.

A characteristic intertwining of space and time that organizes narrative possibilities and the movements of characters.

A sequence of distinct yet connected texts, motifs, or phases linked by recurrence and an overarching order.

A technique that makes the familiar appear unfamiliar and disrupts automatic perception.

The world of characters, events, places, and times presupposed within a narrative.

A temporary departure from the main course of a discourse or narrative into a side path.

Ironic tension arising when audience and characters possess unequal knowledge of decisive circumstances.

The artistic highlighting of linguistic forms through deviation, parallelism, or conspicuous repetition.

An early sign, motif, or event that points toward a later development without fully revealing it.

An incomplete or deliberately unfinished piece of text whose limits and gaps become meaningful.

The deliberate or structural opacity of a text whose references and procedures resist immediate understanding.

A traditional poetic circumlocution naming a referent through a condensed metaphorical compound.

A transgression or compression between normally distinct narrative, temporal, or figurative levels.

Narrative commentary on the act of narration itself, its conditions, or its construction.

The insertion of a scaled-down or varied reflection of the entire work into the work itself.

A narrative technique in which a long span of story time is compressed into brief discourse.

A narrative technique in which a short span of story time is represented at length and with high density of detail.

Erzählsituation, die eine weitere Erzählung umschließt und ihren Status mitbestimmt.

A recurring meaningful element connecting distant parts of a work.

Gleichzeitige Präsenz mehrerer eigenständiger Stimmen oder Perspektiven in einem sprachlichen Werk.

A writing surface or metaphorical textual structure in which an earlier layer has been erased or overwritten yet continues to leave traces.

Nachahmende Umformung eines erkennbaren Stils oder Werkes mit komischer, kritischer oder reflexiver Wirkung.

Vorgriff auf ein späteres Ereignis oder eine später zu behandelnde Antwort.

A return movement in discourse to an earlier point of departure, motif, or line of thought.

Regelmäßig wiederkehrende Vers-, Satz- oder Klangfolge, die Abschnitte verbindet und gliedert.

Anordnung, bei der ein Text oder Abschnitt am Ende zu seinem Anfangsmotiv oder seiner Anfangsstruktur zurückkehrt.

The duration and temporal order of the events recounted by a narrative.

Narrative tension produced by delayed information, an uncertain outcome, and anticipation of consequential events.

The world constructed by a text from characters, objects, spaces, times, rules, and possible events.

Narration whose account gives readers reason to distrust or revise the narrator’s presentation.

A narrative passage whose temporal position within the story cannot be clearly determined.

A narrative moment of recognition in which identity, relation, or the meaning of prior events becomes newly visible.

A retrospective depiction of an event that occurred before the current point in the narrative.

A narrative return to events earlier than the current point of the telling.

The function constructed in a text through which authorship is claimed, concealed, shared, or staged.

A term for deliberately unornamented German-language post-war literature that sought a linguistic and moral break with compromised traditions.

The interplay of writing, image, speech balloons, sound words, and typographic signs in comics.

A deliberately designed language system created for international communication, art, experiment or formal purposes.

A short exemplary narrative, often with acting animals, that yields a lesson.

The organisation of narrative information through a particular centre of perception or knowledge.

A narrative form in which the character’s perspective and the narrator’s speech intertwine without an introductory phrase.

A deliberately underdetermined position in a text or discourse that invites inferential completion.

Integumentum is a historical model of poetic veiling in which an invented narrative contains a philosophically interpretable meaning.

A relational field in which a text absorbs, transforms, quotes or presupposes other texts as cultural memory.

The depiction of recurring events through a single, summary narrative.

A conceptually oral mode of language that presupposes personal proximity, a shared situation and spontaneous coordination.

Fiction that takes its own constructed nature, narrative structure, or media form as its subject.