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The purpose of  the group Narrative Research Lab is the investigation of narrative in various media and art forms; its forms, techniques and voices, its cross medial potential and its relations to different cultural discourses.

The issues of narrative are addressed from a variety of positions and perspectives, focusing on topics like unreliable narration, narrative sequencing, intermediality, remediation, realism, irony, autofiction and autobiography and other non-fictional narratives like testimonies.

The team draws on a wide range of Scandinavian and foreign works of art from the Icelandic sagas over 18 th Century poetry and travel literature to modern and contemporary literature, film, TV productions and performance art. This involves authors like H.C. Andersen, Edgar Allan Poe, August Strindberg, Hans Nordrup, Johannes V. Jensen, Karen Blixen, Bret Easton Ellis, film directors like Brian Singer, Lars von Trier, Stanley Kubrick, David Fincher and Christoffer Boe and artists like Kristian von Hornsleth and Claus Beck-Nielsen.

The group currently consists of 19 members from different universities, but with a core group situated at the University of Aarhus which is evenly balanced between senior researchers and PhD students.

Next meeting:

Wednesday October 6 from 12.30-15.00 in building 1467, room 316 at Aarhus University. Everyone is welcome

Projects

  • Why Study and Teach Literature? A project funded by Aarhus University Research Council. The project asks whether literature still matters in the 21th century. It runs in collaboration with The Danish School of Education and Institute of Language, Literature & Culture, Aarhus University
  • Narrating the Camp. Danish Testimonies (description in Danish here )
  • Unnatural Narratology . Members of the research group participate in an international network on “Unnatural Narratives” dedicated to examine the shortcomings of communicational models when facing certain extreme or experimental narratives

Conducted Summer Schools

IPIN 2010

"NEW MEDIA/NEW NARRATIVES" was the second summer school at IPIN and it brought together 34 students from 12 different countries and 12 different with 10 teachers. The two exciting weeks were spent investigating and discussing on the one hand the ways new types of media (online social networks, computer games, digital literature, hypertext fiction) use, transform and challenge traditional concepts and functions of narratives and on the other hand the ways in which traditional media strive to make it new by stressing, reinventing, or transgressing the notions of mediality typically assigned to them.

IPIN 2009:

‘Narrating the Extreme’ was the first instance of NRL's Intensive Programme in Narratology (IPIN), designed to meet the needs of students interested in a brief but challenging educational experience during the summer. It took place in Aarhus from the 9th to the 23rd of August 2009 and it gathered aproximately 40 students, mainly masters and advanced bachelors. [ description of IPIN 09 ] [ IPIN 09 schedule ]

Conducted Seminars

Research

The research conducted in the group reaches from introductions to narrative theory to narrative analysis of literature published internationally. From semiotic and cognitive approaches to a project on testimonies and narratives from concentration camps and other camps funded by the national research council. Currently the group is working on didactics of and in narratives as part of the project “Why Study and Teach Literature?”

Selected research

Networks

Members

Head of Research Group: Henrik Skov Nielsen
Contact persons: Henrik Skov Nielsen or Rikke Andersen Kraglund
Henvendelse om denne sides indhold: 
Stefan Iversen

Revideret 03.09.2010