Descripciones narrativas

 

    from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

 

Description  / in narrative

 

 

Adam, Jean-Michel. Les textes: types et prototypes: Récit, description, argumentation, explication et dialogue. (Fac-Linguistique). Paris: Nathan, 1992. 4th ed. Paris: Nathan, 2001.

Aumüller, Matthias. "Narratif, descriptif." In Théorie du récit: L'apport de la recherche allemande. Ed. John Pier. Villeuneve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2007. 227-44.*

Bal, Mieke. "On the Meaning of Descriptions." Twentieth Century Literature (1982). (Special issue on the Structural Analysis of Meaning, ed. Nomi Gamir-Ghez).

_____. "3. Text: Words." In Bal, Narratology. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1985. 119-153.* (The Narrator, Non-narrative comments, Description, Levels of narration).

Banfield, Ann. "Describing the Unobserved: Events Grouped Around an Empty Centre." In The Linguistics of Writing. Ed. Nigel Fabb et al. New York: Methuen, 1987. 265-85.

Barnes, Trevor, and James S. Duncan.  Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape. London: Routledge, 1991.

Bender, John B. Spenser and Literary Pictorialism. Princeton (NJ): Princeton UP, 1972.

Bland, D. S.  "Endangering the Reader's Neck: Background Description in the Novel." Criticism 3 (1961): 121-39.

Borges, Jorge Luis. "Sobre la descripción literaria." Sur 12.97 (Oct. 1942). Rpt. in Páginas de Jorge Luis Borges seleccionadas por el autor (Buenos Aires: Celtia, 1982). From Borges en Sur (1931-1980). Rpt. in Borges, Miscelánea. Barcelona: Random House Mondadori-DeBols!llo, 2011. 535-37.*

Buch, H. C.  Ut pictura poesis: Die Beschreibungsliteratur und ihre Kritiker.  Munich: Fink, 1972.

Caballero, Rosario "Fictive Motion in Spatial Description: Buildings that 'Hover' and 'Melt' in Their Sites." In Actas XXVIII Congreso Internacional / International Conference AEDEAN. CD-ROM. Valencia: U de València, 2005.*

Couturier, Maurice. "La rhétorique de l'image." In Couturier, Nabokov, ou la tyrannie de l'auteur. Paris: Seuil, 1993. 201-52. (Description)*

Le décrit.  Littérature 38 (May 1980).

Debray-Genette, Raymonde. "La Pierre descriptive." Poétique 41 (1980): 293-304. (Ekphrasis).

_____. "Traversées de l'espace descriptif." Poétique 51 (1982): 329-44.

Dennerlein, Katrin. "6. Darstellungstechniken." In Dennerlein, Narratologie des Raumes. (Narratologia, 22). Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2009. 115-63.* (Description, mode).

García Landa, José Angel. "Descripción." In García Landa, Acción, Relato, Discurso: Estructura de la ficción narrativa. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 1998. 359-63.*

Gelley, Alexander. "The Represented World: Towards a Phenomenological Theory of Description in the Novel." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 37 (1979): 415-22.

Genette, Gérard. "Frontières du récit." Communications 8 (1966): 152-163. Rpt. in Figures II.*

_____. "Frontières du récit." In Communications, 8: L'Analyse structurale du récit. 1966. Paris: Seuil, 1981. 158-69.*

_____. "Frontières du récit." In Genette, Figures II. (Points). Paris: Seuil, 1969. 49-70.*

_____. "Boundaries of Narrative." Trans. Ann Levonas. New Literary History 8.1 (1976): 1-13.*

_____. "Frontiers of Narrative." In Genette, Figures of Literary Discourse. New York: Columbia UP, 1982. 127-44.

_____. "Frontiers of Narrative." In Semiotics. Ed. Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou, Alexandros Lagopoulos and Mark Gottdiener. London: SAGE, 2002. Vol. 3.

_____. "Fronteras del relato." In Comunicaciones: Análisis estructural del relato. Buenos Aires: Ed. Tiempo Contemporáneo, 1974. 193-208.*

Greimas, A. J. "Description et narrativité à propos de la Ficelle de Guy de Maupassant." Revue Canadienne de linguistique romane 1.1 (1973).

_____. "Description et narrativité à propos de la Ficelle de Guy de Maupassant." In Greimas, Du Sens II. Paris: Seuil, 1983. 135-55.*

Hamon,  Philippe. "Qu'est-ce qu'une description?" Poétique 12 (1972): 465-485.

_____.  "What Is a Description?"  In French Literary Theory Today. Ed. T. Todorov. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982. 147-78.

_____.  "L'énoncé descriptif et sa construction théorique."  Dispositio  5(1980): 55-95.

_____. "Rhetorical Status of the Descriptive." Yale French Studies 61 (1981): 1-26.

_____.  Introduction à l'analyse du descriptif.  Paris: Hachette, 1981.

Ibsch, Elrud.  "Historical Changes of the Function of Spatial Description in Literary Texts."  Poetics Today  3.4 (1982): 98-113.

Jedlicková, Alice. "Descriptivity and Narrativity: Textual Types, Functions and Representational Modes." In Four Studies of Narrative. By Bohumil Fort et al. Prague, 2013. 11-28.*

Kittay, Jeffrey.  "Descriptive Limits." Yale French Studies  61 (1981).

_____, ed. Towards a Theory of Description. Special issue of Yale French Studies (1982).

Klaus, Peter.  "Description and Event in Narrative." Orbis Litterarum  37 (1982): 211-16.

Koopman, N. Ancient Greek Ekphrasis: Between Description and Narration. Ph.D. diss. U of Amsterdam, 2014. Online at UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository).*

         http://dare.uva.nl/record/1/432476

         2016

Lodge, David. "Types of Description." In Lodge, The Modes of Modern Writing. London: Arnold, 1977.*

Lukács, Georg. "Erzählen oder Beschreiben?" 1936. In Probleme des Realismus. Berlin, 1955.

_____. "Erzählung oder Beschreibung? Zur Diskussion über Naturalismus und Formalismus." 1936. In Begriffsbestimmung des literarischen Realismus. Ed. Richard Brinkmann. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1974. 33-85.

_____. "Narrate or Describe?" In Lukács, Writer and Critic and Other Essays. Ed. and trans. Arthur Kahn. London: Merlin, 1978. 110-48.*

Martín, Beatriz, and Pilar Lacasa. "Narraciones, descripciones y comentarios como categorías para hablar y escribir." Papeles de Trabajo sobre Cultura, Educación y Desarrollo Humano 1.1 (April 2005).

         https://revistas.uam.es/index.php/ptcedh/article/viewFile/9821/9977

         2018

Martínez-Dueñas Espejo, José Luis. Función de la representación y la descripción: lo verbal y lo iconográfico en el retrato inglés. 1996.

Mosher, Harold F. "Toward a Poetics of 'Descriptized' Narration." Poetics Today  12.3 (1991): 425-446.*

Novak, Maximillian E. "Picturing the thing Itself, or Not: Defoe, Painting, Prose Fiction, and the Arts of Describing." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 9.1 (1996): 1-20.*

Pflurgmacher, Torsten. "Description." In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Ed. David Herman, Manfred Jahn and Marie-Laure Ryan. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2005. 101-2.*

Robbe-Grillet, Alain.  "Temps et description dans le récit d'aujourd'hui."  1963.  In Robbe-Grillet, Pour un nouveau roman.  Paris: Minuit, 1963. 123-34.*

_____.  For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction. Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Grove, 1965.

_____. Towards a New Novel. Trans. Barbara Wright. In Snapshots and Towards a New Novel. London: Calder and Boyars, 1965.

_____. From For a New Novel. In Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach. Ed. Michael McKeon. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000. 809-29.* (The use of theory. A future for the novel. On Several obsolete notions. Commitment. New Novel, New Man. Time and Description in Fiction Today. From Realism to Reality).

Schmid, Wolf. "4. Functions and Areas of Application." In Schmid, Figurally Colored Narration: Case Studies from English, German, and Russian Literature. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2022. 58-123.* (Chekhov, "The Bride"; Bellow, "Looking for Mr. Green"; Chekhov, "The Student," Jurij Trifonov, The Long Goodbye; Mansfield, "The Daughters of the Late Colonel"; Dieter Wellershoff, "The Normal Life"; Hemingway, "Up in Michigan"; Dickens, Little Dorrit; Austen, Emma; Mann, "Tristan"; Dostoevsky, "A Nasty Anecdote", Crime and Punishment; Pil'njak, The Naked Year; Tolstoy, "The Forged Coupon"; Fay Weldon, "Weekend"; children's fiction; Dostoevsky, The Eternal Husband, The Double;Pushkin, "The Coffinmaker"; Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery"; Faulkner, "Elly"; Illusion, Description, Dreams, Foreshadowing, Mood, Characterization, Flashbacks).

         http://doi.org/10.1515/9783110763102-005

         2022

Shaw, Harry E. "Thin Description: A Reply to Seymour Chatman." Narrative  3.3: 307-314.*

Sternberg, Meir. "Ordering the Unordered: Time, Space, and Descriptive Coherence." Yale French Studies 61 (1981): 60-88.

Towards a Theory of Description.  Yale French Studies  61 (1981).

Verdonk, Peter. "Painting, Poetry, Parallelism: Ekphrasis, Stylistics and Cognitive Poetics." Language and Literature 14.3 (August 2005): 231-44.*

Wegmann, Thomas. "Beschriebenes beschreiben oder Nach dem Erzählen. Narratologische Anmerkungen zu Elfriede Jelinekes früher Prosa." In Der Präsensroman. Ed. Armen Avanessian and Anke Hennig. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2013. 224-36.*

Winther, Per. "Munro's Handling of Description, Focalization, and Voice in 'Passion'." Narrative 20.2 (May 2012): 198-209.*

Yacobi, Tamar. "Pictorial Models and Narrative Ekphrasis." Poetics Today 16 (1995): 599-649.

 

 

See also Ekphrasis.