Jan Alber
RWTH Aachen University
52 Papers
225 Citations
Jan Alber is an academic researcher from RWTH Aachen University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Narrative & Narratology. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 49 publications. Previous affiliations of Jan Alber include University of Freiburg & Aarhus University.
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Papers
Unnatural Narratives, Unnatural Narratology: Beyond Mimetic Models
TL;DR: Iversen et al. as mentioned in this paper presented a critical monograph entitled Narrating the Prison and the editor/co-editor of numerous volumes, such as Stones of Law, Bricks of Shame: Narrating Imprisonment in the Victorian Age and Postclassical Narratology: Approaches and Analyses.
Impossible Storyworlds—and What to Do with Them
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define the term unnatural and outline a cognitive model that describes ways in which readers can make sense of unnatural scenarios in postmodernist narratives, and use these reading strategies to discuss examples of unnaturalness in post modernist narratives.
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Postclassical narratology: approaches and analyses
Jan Alber,Monika Fludernik +1 more
- 01 Jan 2010
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Unnatural narratives--unnatural narratology
Jan Alber,Rüdiger Heinze +1 more
- 20 Jan 2011
TL;DR: A collection of essays as discussed by the authors discusses the new analytical tools that have so far been developed on the basis of unnatural novels, short stories, and plays and extends these findings through analyses of testimonies, comics, graphic novels, films, and oral narratives.
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