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In her book Towards a Natural Narratology, Fludernik defined narrativity through the notion of experientiality. This essay argues that, despite the success of Natural Narratology, the significance of experience has not yet been fully charted out in narratology. A look at philosophical discussions shows that experience need not be pitted against plot. The phenomenological tradition in particular has highlighted the temporal dimension of experience. Encompassing the temporal dynamics of narrative as well the role of consciousness, the concept of experience may help overcome some of the shortcomings of approaches that focus on fictional minds and tend to downplay plot.
June 2018:
Jonas Grethlein holds the Chair in Greek Literature at Heidelberg. His monographs include Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity (Cambridge UP 2017); Die Odyssee (C.H. Beck 2017); Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography (Cambridge UP 2013); The Greeks and their Past (Cambridge UP 2010); Littells Orestie (Rombach 2009).
