Narrative Sequence in Contemporary Narratology

<div>Since Aristotle there has been an assumption that narrative is a representation of actions or sequences of events that this representation aims to elicit emotions and that well-formed narratives constitute a whole with a beginning a middle and an end. The nature role and relative importance of constituent notions like sequence of events and plot have been discussed repeatedly and as a result have become rather slippery. While recent developments in contemporary narrative theory such as unnatural transmedial cognitive and functionalist narratology shed new light on these notions <i>Narrative Sequence in Contemporary Narratology</i> goes beyond specific approaches to narrative illuminating sequence and plot in all the diversity of their manifestations forms and functions.<br> This volume edited by Raphaël Baroni and Françoise Revaz includes contributions from some of the most influential scholars in narrative studies: Alain Boillat Peter Hühn Emma Kafalenos Franco Passalacqua James Phelan Federico Pianzola John Pier Gerald Prince Brian Richardson Marie-Laure Ryan Eyal Segal and Michael Toolan. Essays range in focus from musical narrativity and rhetorical narrative theory to comic strips and re-examinations of classical and postclassical narratology. All of the essays contribute fresh understandings of foundational concepts in the field of narratology.</div>