Marina Lambrou, Disnarration and the Unmentioned in Fact and Fiction

Abstract

In the wake of the narrative turn in social sciences, Marina Lambrou’s publication explores the dark continent of narratology: disnarration. As she analyses the stylistics of the unmentioned in various storytelling forms – from newspaper articles to Victorian novels and contemporary films – the Kingston University professor seems to agree with semiologist Roland Barthes’ now-famous statement: “The narratives of the world are numberless. Narrative is first and foremost a prodigious variety of ...