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In her response to the essays, Monika Fludernik concentrates on tackling two major points of critique: the question of the natural and the term experientiality. She also engages with Shen Dan's complex remarks about narrativity and its relationship to experientiality and with Maria Mäkelä's remarks on diachrony in the context of models of reader response. As for experientiality, she welcomes both Jonas Grethlein's and Marco Caracciolo's extensions of the term, though signaling some caution about a conflation of experience and experientiality.
June 2018: Monika Fludernik is Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She is also the director of the graduate school Factual and Fictional Narration (GRK 1767). Her major fields of interest include narratology, postcolonial studies, “Law and Literature,” and 18th-century aesthetics. She is the author of The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction (1993) and the award-winning Towards a ‘Natural’ Narratology (1996). Among her several edited volumes are Hybridity and Postcolonialism: Twentieth-Century Indian Literature (1998) and Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory: Perspectives on Literary Metaphor (2011). She is currently co-editing the Handbook Narrative Factuality with Marie-Laure Ryan.
