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Aristotelian and/or Nietzschean narratology

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Over the years, narratologists have established a unitary view of narrative structure based on the principles of Aristotle's Poetics. I propose in this essay to describe the general features of an alternative epistemological framework based on a renewed interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy. Through this analysis, I wish to show how the adoption of the Aristotelian model as a framework for narratological research could have led to neglecting certain fundamental aspects of narrativity that the adoption of a Nietzschean perspective, conversely, would highlight. In particular, I want to emphasize that the abandonment of the Aristotelian perspective in favor of a Nietzschean approach can be extremely useful in order to highlight the über-natural character of so-called "unnatural narratives". I will test my hypotheses through the analysis of David Foster Wallace's short story "Mister Squishy" (2004), which represents an emblematic case of "Nietzschean narrative".
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hal-03281245 , version 1 (20-07-2021)

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Antonino Sorci. Aristotelian and/or Nietzschean narratology. Frontiers of Narrative Studies, 2021, 7 (1), pp.62 - 83. ⟨10.1515/fns-2021-0004⟩. ⟨hal-03281245⟩
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