Matei Chihaia is professor of French and Spanish literature at the University of Wuppertal.Katharina Rennhak is professor of English literature at the University of Wuppertal.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Dialectics of Relevance and Narrative ResearchMatei Chihaia and Katharina RennhakPart 1. The Politics of Narrative RelevanceChapter 1. The (Ir)Relevance of NarratologySusan S. LanserChapter 2. Disciplining Relevance: On Manifest and Latent Functions of NarrativesAndreas MahlerPart 2. The Logic of Narrative RelevanceChapter 3. Relevant Logics, Counterfactual Worlds, and the Understanding of NarrativeLuis GalvánChapter 4. Relevance Theory and Literary Studies—and Some Thoughts on Paul Torday’s The Irresistible Inheritance of WilberforceCarsten BreulChapter 5. Communication, Life, and Dangerous Things: On Relevance and Tellability in PicturesMichael RantaPart 3. The Relativity of RelevanceChapter 6. The Relevance of Irrelevance in Mimetic Narratives: Guess What…Raphaël BaroniChapter 7. Narrating Random Probes: The Ideal of “Slice-of-Life”Sebastian DomschPart 4. (Ir)Relevance and Narrative GenresChapter 8. Relevance Theory in Contemporary Narratology: Processing Meaning from Narrative TextsSonja KlimekChapter 9. “Less is More”: Narrative Strategies of Reduction and the Construct of (Ir)Relevance in the Works of Three French Minimalist AuthorsSusanne SchlünderChapter 10. The Relevance of Narrative Theory for the Study of Short Fiction: The Case of First-Person Present-Tense NarrationElke D’hokerIndexAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors

Based on the premise that relevance—as a relational concept—is intrinsically embedded in narrative, this poignant, in-depth inquiry examines social, cultural, and institutional constructions of relevance using the tools of narrative theory. In a complementary meta-theoretical gesture, contributors to the volume apply, challengingly, the notion of relevance to narratology itself. A most timely and, dare I say, relevant study.

Matei Chihaia is professor of French and Spanish literature at the University of Wuppertal.Katharina Rennhak is professor of English literature at the University of Wuppertal.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Dialectics of Relevance and Narrative ResearchMatei Chihaia and Katharina RennhakPart 1. The Politics of Narrative RelevanceChapter 1. The (Ir)Relevance of NarratologySusan S. LanserChapter 2. Disciplining Relevance: On Manifest and Latent Functions of NarrativesAndreas MahlerPart 2. The Logic of Narrative RelevanceChapter 3. Relevant Logics, Counterfactual Worlds, and the Understanding of NarrativeLuis GalvánChapter 4. Relevance Theory and Literary Studies—and Some Thoughts on Paul Torday’s The Irresistible Inheritance of WilberforceCarsten BreulChapter 5. Communication, Life, and Dangerous Things: On Relevance and Tellability in PicturesMichael RantaPart 3. The Relativity of RelevanceChapter 6. The Relevance of Irrelevance in Mimetic Narratives: Guess What…Raphaël BaroniChapter 7. Narrating Random Probes: The Ideal of “Slice-of-Life”Sebastian DomschPart 4. (Ir)Relevance and Narrative GenresChapter 8. Relevance Theory in Contemporary Narratology: Processing Meaning from Narrative TextsSonja KlimekChapter 9. “Less is More”: Narrative Strategies of Reduction and the Construct of (Ir)Relevance in the Works of Three French Minimalist AuthorsSusanne SchlünderChapter 10. The Relevance of Narrative Theory for the Study of Short Fiction: The Case of First-Person Present-Tense NarrationElke D’hokerIndexAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors

Based on the premise that relevance—as a relational concept—is intrinsically embedded in narrative, this poignant, in-depth inquiry examines social, cultural, and institutional constructions of relevance using the tools of narrative theory. In a complementary meta-theoretical gesture, contributors to the volume apply, challengingly, the notion of relevance to narratology itself. A most timely and, dare I say, relevant study.

Matei Chihaia is professor of French and Spanish literature at the University of Wuppertal.Katharina Rennhak is professor of English literature at the University of Wuppertal.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Dialectics of Relevance and Narrative ResearchMatei Chihaia and Katharina RennhakPart 1. The Politics of Narrative RelevanceChapter 1. The (Ir)Relevance of NarratologySusan S. LanserChapter 2. Disciplining Relevance: On Manifest and Latent Functions of NarrativesAndreas MahlerPart 2. The Logic of Narrative RelevanceChapter 3. Relevant Logics, Counterfactual Worlds, and the Understanding of NarrativeLuis GalvánChapter 4. Relevance Theory and Literary Studies—and Some Thoughts on Paul Torday’s The Irresistible Inheritance of WilberforceCarsten BreulChapter 5. Communication, Life, and Dangerous Things: On Relevance and Tellability in PicturesMichael RantaPart 3. The Relativity of RelevanceChapter 6. The Relevance of Irrelevance in Mimetic Narratives: Guess What…Raphaël BaroniChapter 7. Narrating Random Probes: The Ideal of “Slice-of-Life”Sebastian DomschPart 4. (Ir)Relevance and Narrative GenresChapter 8. Relevance Theory in Contemporary Narratology: Processing Meaning from Narrative TextsSonja KlimekChapter 9. “Less is More”: Narrative Strategies of Reduction and the Construct of (Ir)Relevance in the Works of Three French Minimalist AuthorsSusanne SchlünderChapter 10. The Relevance of Narrative Theory for the Study of Short Fiction: The Case of First-Person Present-Tense NarrationElke D’hokerIndexAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors

Based on the premise that relevance—as a relational concept—is intrinsically embedded in narrative, this poignant, in-depth inquiry examines social, cultural, and institutional constructions of relevance using the tools of narrative theory. In a complementary meta-theoretical gesture, contributors to the volume apply, challengingly, the notion of relevance to narratology itself. A most timely and, dare I say, relevant study.