8th Conference of the European Narratology Network on the Topic of “Limits of Narrative”

Published: 10/22/2026

Proceedings of Selective Papers

Against Coherence. Self-Narrative and the Enjoyment of Failure

Martin Dege
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Between Writing and The Body. Performativity in Hilda Hilst’s Fictional Prose

Giovana Zamboni Rossi
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Beyond Narrative Subjectivity, Beyond Filmic Narration. David Lynch’s L.A. Trilogy and the Limits of Narrative

Emil Egenbauer
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Beyond Plot: Capturing the Minutiae of Daily Life. Narrativity between Lyric Enactment and Material Writing in Friederike Mayröcker’s Proems

Gabriele Wix
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At the Boundaries of Autobiography and Fiction. On Autofiction and its Dynamics between Individualization and Politicization

Daniela Henke
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Cinematic and Theatrical Narrators as Optional Agencies in All About Eve by Ivo van Hove (2019). An Intermedial Approach to Multimodal Narrative on Stage

Tiến Phát Nguyễn
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Gaps and Narrativity: Strategy and Function

Bohumil Fořt
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Gaps in the Narrative of Modernist Poetry. Its Function and Ways of Interpretation

Romana Kališová
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Hiding the Data: The Narrative Effects of Deferred Information in Contemporary Science Novels

Cora Z. Övermann
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Killer Fabulations. Terrorists-Writers and the Propaganda of the Deed in the Russian Empire

Michał Mrugalski
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The Limits of Small Stories on TikTok. Audiovisual Dissonance in Rescripted Self-Narratives

Nicole Basaraba
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Open-Ended Narratives in a Diachronic Perspective

Andrey Agratin
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The Role of Gaps in Character Identity Construction

Carmen Lăcan
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The Trickster as Liminal Agent: Gaps, Disruption, and Narrative Dynamics in Neil Gaiman’s Corpus

Věra Koukalová
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Unreliability and Communal Meaning-Making in Narrative Podcasts

Jasmin Bieber
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The Unreliable Narratee: A New Category for Analyzing Epistemic Gaps in Narratives and their Political Implications

Martin Lindner
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Varieties of Metafiction

Louis Rouillé
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When Gaps Matter: Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man vs. Dobychin’s The Town of N

Valery Timofeev
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Dissertation Abstracts

(Be)Coming of Plant: (Eco)Narrative Moment to Growing Futures

Jacqueline A. Heinzelmann
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The Astonishing Persistence of the Virgin Martyr Plot. From Middle English Legends to Twenty-First Century Fiction

Gabrielle Lis
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Diachronic Metalepsis in Cinema: A Focus on English-Language Films

Fatimeh Ahmadi
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Fiction's Ability to Respond: On the Poetics of Responsibility in Contemporary German and English Literature

Charlotte Rauth
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How Muslims Speak: Negotiating Muslimness in Fictional Dialogue

Tuğba Karaca
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The Implied Author in the Second Book of Migrations by Miloš Crnjanski and in the Film Migrations 2 by Aleksandar Petrović

Zorica Mladenović
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Lives in Circulation. Personal Storytelling, Post-Truth Digital Publics and Narrative Epistemics

Atieh Asadollahi
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Mood in Video Games: Intermedial Strategies and Narrative Experience

Anna Ishchenko
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Narrative Knowledge. The Late Midieval and Early Modern Reckoning Book between Narration, Fiction and Didactics

Franziska Putz
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The Narrative Strategies in the Slovak Modernist Poetry of the First Third of the 20th Century

Romana Kališová
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Narrative Techniques in the Twenty-first Century: An Intermedial Approach to the Cognitive Interplay between Theatre, Prose, and Film

Tiến Phát Nguyễn
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A Rhetorical Poetics of Søren Kierkegaard: Pseudonymity, Polyphony, and Fictionality

Ville Hämäläinen
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Self-Reflexivity and Generic Change in 21st-Century Black British Women's Literature

Katrijn van den Bossche
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Story Mapping in the Dutch Republic (c. 1600–1700)

Anne-Rieke van Shaik
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Time and the Formation of Time in German Literature Dealing with 1989 and the Aftermath

Tim Senkbeil
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Towards an Aesthetics of Sameness: Literary Counter-Voices to the Rise of Nationalist and Colonialist Thinking in Late Austria-Hungary

Martin Lindner
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Trickster as a Source of Liminality in Narratology

Věra Koukalová
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