Travelling Concepts: New Fictionality Studies

This collection of essays is based on the cooperation between the Freiburg graduate school Factual and Fictional Narration and the Aarhus Centre of Fictionality Studies. It re-examines the much discussed factfiction distinction in light of the current burgeoning of research on fictionality.

This volume is co-edited by the director of the Freiburg graduate school "Factual and Fictional Narration" (GRK 1767, Freiburg/Germany) and the director of the Aarhus Centre for Fictionality Studies (University of Aarhus, DK). The collection of essays re-examines the much discussed factfiction distinction in light of the current burgeoning of research on fictionality. It provides a forum for ongoing work on fictionality from France, Germany and Denmark and Sweden. By placing discussions of the notion of fictionality in one volume, the editors hope to initiate exchange between the different traditions represented in the essays und to help the task of translating the available concepts and terminologies so they can travel between different models and theoretical frameworks.

Autorentext

Monika Fludernik is Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg in Germany. She has worked in the areas of narratology, postcolonial literary theory, law and literature studies and the eighteenth century. Her two most recent publications are Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy (Oxford Univ. Press, 2019) and (with Marie-Laure Ryan) the handbook Narrative Factuality (de Gruyter, 2019). Henrik Skov Nielsen is a professor at Aarhus University. His research has attempted to contribute to conversations about mainly three areas of narrative theory: first person narration; unnatural narratology; and fictionality. Sample publications in English include "Ten Theses about Fictionality" with James Phelan and Richard Walsh (in Narrative January 2015) and Narratology and Ideology edited with Divya Dwivedi and Richard Walsh, which was recently published by OSU press. He heads the research group Narrative Research Lab (http://nordisk.au.dk/forskning/forskningscentre/nrl/intro/), and "Centre for Fictionality Studies" (http://fictionality.au.dk/).

Inhalt
TABLE OF CONTENTS MONIKA FLUDERNIK, HENRIK SKOV NIELSEN Introduction FRANK ZIPFEL Invention and Fictionality JOHANNES FRANZEN Contested Inventions: Fictionality and Ethics FRANÇOISE LAVOCAT The Frontiers between Fact and Fiction in the Light of Tridimensional Comparatism EVA VON CONTZEN, STEFAN TILG Fictionality before Fictionality? Historicizing a Modern Concept SIMONA ZETTERBERG GJERLEVSEN Inventing History: Fictionality in the Historical Novel in Britain and Denmark TOBIAS KLAUK, TILMANN KÖPPE Authors, Fictional Narrators, and Literary Appreciation HENRIK SKOV NIELSEN Factuality and Fictionality in Fake News CONTRIBUTORS