Brian McHale

TL;DR: The authors pointed out that the two branches of narratology have until now devoted their attention almost exclusively to the behavior and objects of fictional narratives alone, and this has not been a simple empirical choice, implying no prejudice toward whatever might, for the time being, have been explicitly excluded from consideration; rather it has involved the implicit privileging of fictional narrative, which has been hypostatized as narrative par excellence, or as the model for all narratives whatsoever.

TL;DR: Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman and Brian McHale as discussed by the authors discuss Pynchon's postmodernism and intertexts in their book The Crying of Lot 49 and other California novels.

TL;DR: This article pointed out that contemporary narrative theory is almost silent about poetry, and pointed out a blind spot in contemporary narrative theories, namely the lack of systematic reflection on poetry in the West, without the Homeric poems, which serve as touchstones of narrative theory.

TL;DR: The lecture I am about to deliver, on the initiative of the Asahi newspaper, falls within the sphere of the bicentennial celebrations of the French Revolution, and I would like to contribute in my own way, which is, no doubt, a little paradoxical or perverse, to these celebrations by recalling, following the lecture I delivered yesterday at Todai University, that the organizers of these ceremonies are none other than, in the France of 1989, the members of this State nobility, the power of which finds its legitimacy in cultural capital, that is, from a naive