Transfrontaliarité, transmédialité, transdisciplinarité.

Abstract

Following the conference “Vingt ans de narratologie au CRAL : rétrospectives et narratologies à venir”, held in Paris at the Center for Research in the Arts and Language on February 6, 2024, CAO Danhong interviewed John Pier who has co-directed the seminar since its founding in 2003. The conference was an opportunity for the participants to take stock of the work carried out in the seminar over two decades. Among the themes discussed during the interview are the numerous topics debated during the meetings of the seminar, the evolution of French narratology in the context of international research and of the classical/postclassical paradigm as well as the three “generations” that characterize Francophone narratology. Also discussed are the transmedialization of narrative and the increasing number of narrative objects resulting from technological developments. The growing interest in diachronic research is taken up as well as the major role of transdisciplinarity in narrative research, but at the same time the risks of pan-narrativism and narrative imperialism. Lastly, narratology, thanks to its origins and to the diversity of its many developments, is by its very nature international, without being the special reserve of any particular linguistic or cultural area. The interview ends with a call for the necessity of a comparative narratology.

Keywords

• conference on narratology
• French/international narratology
• diachronic narratology
• comparative narratology
• historiography of narratology