Standards in den Literaturwissenschaften Beitrag Anmerkungen zum Verhältnis von Theorie und Methodologie am Beispiel der transdisziplinären Erzählforschung Roy Sommer Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, Jahrgang 65 (2015), Ausgabe 1, Seite 79 - 95 The current debate on standards and norms in literary studies focuses on what might be described as procedural standards in teaching, in scholarly work, and in quality management. This article argues that standards also fulfil vital epistemological functions, and that the lack of such standards in literary studies indicates the need for a new methodology. Using the example of narratology, the essay draws on the philosophical distinction between the context of discovery and the context of justification in order to discuss the limits of a concept-based approach to cross-disciplinary narrative research. By establishing a discourse on methods as standardized procedures for both theory construction and textual analysis, the essay makes the case for a broader understanding of methodology, one that includes theories of discovery and theories of justification.
Erzählforschung als Kulturwissenschaft Beitrag Erkenntnisinteressen, Ansätze und Fragestellungen der postklassischen Narratologie Roy Sommer Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, Jahrgang 63 (2013), Ausgabe 1, Seite 85 - 101 After a period of diversification, there are now increasing calls for a consolidation of narratologies. Recent survey articles propose a liberal understanding of narrative research as a field that is not restricted to narrative theory but also includes applications or ‘toolbox’ approaches, i.e. textual analyses based on narratological categories. Furthermore, critics have emphasized the interdependence between classical and postclassical narratologies. This paper proposes a consolidated model of postclassical narratology that is based on two distinctions, between textual and contextual approaches and between corpus-based and process-oriented approaches. These distinctions are not considered as mutually exclusive oppositions, but as complementary options that are frequently combined in narratological studies. This flexibility facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration between disciplines involved in narrative research, and allows narratology to play a key role in transdisciplinary studies of narrative, cognition and culture.
„Village Property“, kulturelle Hybridität und Grenzen literarischer Übersetzung: Toni Morrisons ‚Tar Baby‘ Marion Kraft
