Narrative : A Seminar is a collection of papers presented at the international Seminar on Narrative held by the Sahitya Akademi in 1990. the discussion here cuts across a number of languages, genres, art forms and historical periods. The participants are celebrated scholars and writers: Jonathan Culler, Harbhajan Singh, Earl Miner, Birendra Kumar Bhattacharyya, Holger Klein, Bhisham Sahni, Ramchandra Gandhi, Mona Abousenna, Douwe Fokkema, Tania Carvalhal, Sitakant Mahapatra, Vidya Niwas Misra, Milan V. Dimic, T. Morimoto, Suresh Awasthi, Nabaneeta Deb Sen, Fridrun Rinner, Milan Djurcinov, Qurratulain Hyder, Maria Seixo, Karl Maurer, Yves Chevrel, John Neubauer, Rai Anand Krishna, Bhaskar Chandravarkar, Gerald Gillespie, N.C. Jain, Sisir Kumar Das, Ashok Ranade and Amiya Dev. The volume in six parts beginning with the first hand testament of creative writers, moving on to oral and written narrative of the past, modern fictional narrative, painting, music, film and theatre, is a major contribution to the theory and practice of Narratology : a must for academics and interest readers, a pride for libraries.
About the Author:
Amiya Dev (b. 1935), the editor of the present volume is Professor and Dean, Faculty of Arts, Jadavpur University and editor of the Jadavpur journal of Comparative Literature. He has authored a book The Idea of Comparative Literature in India and a monograph on Sudhindranath Datta, besides co-editing Comparative Literature, Theory and Practice with Dr. Sisir Kumar Das. He has also contributed several scholarly papers on Comparative Literature.
| Welcome Address: Inaugural Session - Indra Nath Choudhuri | 1 |
| Inaugural Address - Making History: The Power of Narrative - Jonathan Culler | 5 |
| Keynote Address - Narrative: The Indian Tradition - Harbhajan Singh | 13 |
| Keynote Address - A Brief History of A Silence - Earl Miner | 21 |
| Presidential Address - Some Thoughts on Narratology - Birendra Kumar Bhattacharyya | 30 |
| Vote of Thanks - Gangadhar Gadgil | 39 |
| J.B.Priestley, Jung and Creativity - Narrative and Creativity - Holger Klein | 43 |
| Narration and Creativity - Bhisham Sahni | 58 |
| Creativity and Narration in the Euro-Arabic Novel: Preliminary Remarks Towards a Dialogue of Cultures - Mona Abousenna | 67 |
| Machado De Assis and Artistic Creation - Tania Franco Carvalhal | 83 |
| A Nightmare: Epic and Romance - Ramchandra Gandhi | 93 |
| Structure of the Traditional Indian Narrative - Vidya Niwas Misra | 99 |
| The Various Possible Meanings of Rewriting: Different Traditions in East and West? - Douwe Fokkema | 108 |
| Epic and Romance: The Archetypal Relation Between Narrative
and Destiny - Sitakant Mahapatra | 124 |
| Popular Revivals of the Epic and the Romance in the 'Literture for the Masses' or so called Paraliterature - Milan V. Dimie | 129 |
| Genesis of the Japanese Tradition of Narrative Seen in the
Genji Monogatari - Tatsuo Morimoto | 143 |
| Oral Narratives: The Strategies and Structures of Performance - Suresh Awasthi | 153 |
| A Woman's Retelling of the Rama-Tale: Narrative Strategies Employed in the 'Chandrabati Ramayana' - Nabaneeta Deb Sen | 166 |
| The Arabian Nights: Telling Stories as a Means of Escape from
Death - Fridrun Rinner | 180 |
| Tales: Oral and Written - Komal Kothari | 186 |
| The Spoken and the Written Word: As Practised in the
Literature of Macedonian Writers - Milan Djurcinov | 196 |
| Novel and Short Story: Modern Narratives - Qurratulain Hyder | 207 |
| The Novel and Totality: Regarding space in the Novel touching
upon the Opera and the Pastoral - Maria Alzira Seixo | 215 |
| Novel, Travel Report and Short Story: Modern Narratives - Karl Maurer | 223 |
| The City in the Twentieth Century Novel: hugo von Hofmannsthal, Virginia Woolf, John Dos Passos, Albert Camus - Yves Chevrel | 230 |
| Musical 'mis en abyme': The Nature and Function of Musical
Narration in E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Ritter Gluck" - John Neubaur | 243 |
| Story of the Tongue and the Text: The Narrative Tradition - Gulam Mohammed Sheikh | 251 |
| Narrative in Indian Painting - Rai Anand Krishna | 273 |
| Music and Narrative - Bhaskar Chandravarkar | 288 |
| Cinematic Narration in the Modernist Novel - Gerald Gillespie | 293 |
| Dramatic Performance and Narrative - Nemichandra Jain | 303 |
| Narrative in Drama - Sisir Kumar Das | 310 |
| The Performing Arts and Narrative - Ashok D. Ranade | 321 |
| Performance as Narration: Notes towards a Narratology of the
Performing Arts - Amiya Dev | 333 |
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Narrative : A Seminar is a collection of papers presented at the international Seminar on Narrative held by the Sahitya Akademi in 1990. the discussion here cuts across a number of languages, genres, art forms and historical periods. The participants are celebrated scholars and writers: Jonathan Culler, Harbhajan Singh, Earl Miner, Birendra Kumar Bhattacharyya, Holger Klein, Bhisham Sahni, Ramchandra Gandhi, Mona Abousenna, Douwe Fokkema, Tania Carvalhal, Sitakant Mahapatra, Vidya Niwas Misra, Milan V. Dimic, T. Morimoto, Suresh Awasthi, Nabaneeta Deb Sen, Fridrun Rinner, Milan Djurcinov, Qurratulain Hyder, Maria Seixo, Karl Maurer, Yves Chevrel, John Neubauer, Rai Anand Krishna, Bhaskar Chandravarkar, Gerald Gillespie, N.C. Jain, Sisir Kumar Das, Ashok Ranade and Amiya Dev. The volume in six parts beginning with the first hand testament of creative writers, moving on to oral and written narrative of the past, modern fictional narrative, painting, music, film and theatre, is a major contribution to the theory and practice of Narratology : a must for academics and interest readers, a pride for libraries.
About the Author:
Amiya Dev (b. 1935), the editor of the present volume is Professor and Dean, Faculty of Arts, Jadavpur University and editor of the Jadavpur journal of Comparative Literature. He has authored a book The Idea of Comparative Literature in India and a monograph on Sudhindranath Datta, besides co-editing Comparative Literature, Theory and Practice with Dr. Sisir Kumar Das. He has also contributed several scholarly papers on Comparative Literature.
| Welcome Address: Inaugural Session - Indra Nath Choudhuri | 1 |
| Inaugural Address - Making History: The Power of Narrative - Jonathan Culler | 5 |
| Keynote Address - Narrative: The Indian Tradition - Harbhajan Singh | 13 |
| Keynote Address - A Brief History of A Silence - Earl Miner | 21 |
| Presidential Address - Some Thoughts on Narratology - Birendra Kumar Bhattacharyya | 30 |
| Vote of Thanks - Gangadhar Gadgil | 39 |
| J.B.Priestley, Jung and Creativity - Narrative and Creativity - Holger Klein | 43 |
| Narration and Creativity - Bhisham Sahni | 58 |
| Creativity and Narration in the Euro-Arabic Novel: Preliminary Remarks Towards a Dialogue of Cultures - Mona Abousenna | 67 |
| Machado De Assis and Artistic Creation - Tania Franco Carvalhal | 83 |
| A Nightmare: Epic and Romance - Ramchandra Gandhi | 93 |
| Structure of the Traditional Indian Narrative - Vidya Niwas Misra | 99 |
| The Various Possible Meanings of Rewriting: Different Traditions in East and West? - Douwe Fokkema | 108 |
| Epic and Romance: The Archetypal Relation Between Narrative
and Destiny - Sitakant Mahapatra | 124 |
| Popular Revivals of the Epic and the Romance in the 'Literture for the Masses' or so called Paraliterature - Milan V. Dimie | 129 |
| Genesis of the Japanese Tradition of Narrative Seen in the
Genji Monogatari - Tatsuo Morimoto | 143 |
| Oral Narratives: The Strategies and Structures of Performance - Suresh Awasthi | 153 |
| A Woman's Retelling of the Rama-Tale: Narrative Strategies Employed in the 'Chandrabati Ramayana' - Nabaneeta Deb Sen | 166 |
| The Arabian Nights: Telling Stories as a Means of Escape from
Death - Fridrun Rinner | 180 |
| Tales: Oral and Written - Komal Kothari | 186 |
| The Spoken and the Written Word: As Practised in the
Literature of Macedonian Writers - Milan Djurcinov | 196 |
| Novel and Short Story: Modern Narratives - Qurratulain Hyder | 207 |
| The Novel and Totality: Regarding space in the Novel touching
upon the Opera and the Pastoral - Maria Alzira Seixo | 215 |
| Novel, Travel Report and Short Story: Modern Narratives - Karl Maurer | 223 |
| The City in the Twentieth Century Novel: hugo von Hofmannsthal, Virginia Woolf, John Dos Passos, Albert Camus - Yves Chevrel | 230 |
| Musical 'mis en abyme': The Nature and Function of Musical
Narration in E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Ritter Gluck" - John Neubaur | 243 |
| Story of the Tongue and the Text: The Narrative Tradition - Gulam Mohammed Sheikh | 251 |
| Narrative in Indian Painting - Rai Anand Krishna | 273 |
| Music and Narrative - Bhaskar Chandravarkar | 288 |
| Cinematic Narration in the Modernist Novel - Gerald Gillespie | 293 |
| Dramatic Performance and Narrative - Nemichandra Jain | 303 |
| Narrative in Drama - Sisir Kumar Das | 310 |
| The Performing Arts and Narrative - Ashok D. Ranade | 321 |
| Performance as Narration: Notes towards a Narratology of the
Performing Arts - Amiya Dev | 333 |
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