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“I’ll teach you differences.” A meta-theoretical approach to narrative theory “我教你区别。”叙事理论的元理论研究

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2019-07-02 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2019-0010

Anni Greve

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Rhetorical Theory of Narrative and Contemporary Narrative Poetics: A Conversation with James Phelan 叙事修辞理论与当代叙事诗学——兼谈詹姆斯·费伦

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2019-07-02 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2019-0001

Shang Biwu, J. Phelan

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The art of narrative – narrative as art: Sameness or difference? 叙事艺术——作为艺术的叙事:同一性还是差异性?

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2019-07-02 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2019-0004

Lars-Åke Skalin

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Beyond sameness and difference: Narrative sense-making in life and literature 超越同异:生活与文学中的叙事意义建构

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2019-07-02 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2019-0006

Hanna Meretoja

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Introduction: Sameness and difference in narratology 导论:叙事学中的同一性与差异性

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2019-07-02 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2019-0002

G. Andersson, Per Klingberg, Tommy Sandberg

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Sameness, difference, or continuity? 相同，差异，还是连续性?

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2019-07-02 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2019-0005

M. Hyvärinen

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Sameness and difference in narrative modes and narrative sense making: The case of Ramsey Campbell’s “The Scar” 叙事模式的同一性与差异性与叙事意义建构——以拉姆齐·坎贝尔的《伤痕》为例

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2019-07-02 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2019-0009

Mari Hatavara, Jarkko Toikkanen

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Narrative space in Ian McEwan’s Saturday: A narratological perspective 伊恩·麦克尤恩《星期六》的叙事空间:叙事学视角

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2018-11-26 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2018-0028

A. Koron

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“The new geography,” material science, and narratology’s space-time dichotomy: Notes toward a geographical narratology “新地理学”、材料科学与叙事学的时空二分法:对地理叙事学的注释

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2018-11-26 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2018-0018

Nancy L. Easterlin

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Narrating and mapping Russia: From Terra Incognita to a charted space on the road to Cathay 叙述和绘制俄罗斯:从未知之地到通往中国的道路上的一个地图空间

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Frontiers of Narrative Studies Pub Date : 2018-11-26 DOI: 10.1515/fns-2018-0023

G. Prokhorov, Sergey Saveliev

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