Life Storytelling across Media and Contexts
Edited by Jarmila Mildorf and Zuzana Fonioková
Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 35:2 (2025) v, 163 pp.
Jarmila Mildorf
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jarmila Mildorf is involved.
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Dialogue across Media
Edited by Jarmila Mildorf and Bronwen Thomas
With chapters on social media, videogames and human-machine communication, Dialogue across Media provides a comprehensive overview of the role of dialogue in contemporary media. Drawing on the expertise of scholars and practitioners from multiple fields and disciplines, including screenwriters,… read more[Dialogue Studies, 28] 2017. ix, 296 pp.
2025 Soundscapes and storytelling in literary interviews: Audionarratological perspectives Life Storytelling across Media and Contexts, Mildorf, Jarmila and Zuzana Fonioková (eds.), pp. 337–358 | Article
Interviews have long depended on recordings, but the interview ‘text’ has traditionally been transcribed and published in written form. Scholars therefore hailed the advent of digitization for making recordings available to a broader audience and displaying their orality. Despite this growing… read more
2025 Life storytelling across media and contexts: Introduction Life Storytelling across Media and Contexts, Mildorf, Jarmila and Zuzana Fonioková (eds.), pp. 207–215 | Introduction
2017 Dialogic interactions on radio: Studs Terkel’s literary interviews Dialogue across Media, Mildorf, Jarmila and Bronwen Thomas (eds.), pp. 117–136 | Article
This paper focuses on a sub-category of journalistic interviews, namely the so-called “literary interview,” where writers are interviewed about their lives and works. More specifically, the paper investigates the dynamics of literary interviews as radio broadcasts and therefore emphasizes their… read more
2017 Introduction: Dialogue across Media Dialogue across Media, Mildorf, Jarmila and Bronwen Thomas (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
2013 “Unnatural” narratives? The case of second-person narration The Travelling Concepts of Narrative, Hatavara, Mari, Lars-Christer Hydén and Matti Hyvärinen (eds.), pp. 179–200 | Article
This chapter explores second-person narration in literary and conversational storytelling, contesting the view that you-narration is a purely literary phenomenon. On a theoretical level, the chapter questions some of the tenets proposed by “unnatural narratology,” a newly emerging camp in the… read more
2013 Chapter 5. Referential frameworks and focalization in a craft artist’s life story: A socionarratological perspective on narrative identity Rethinking Narrative Identity: Persona and Perspective, Holler, Claudia and Martin Klepper (eds.), pp. 103–116 | Article
This chapter explores the roles perspective can play in conversational storytelling (e.g. creating involvement, sympathy and bonding) and to what extent literary narratology can offer useful terms to describe perspective-taking in such contexts. The chapter traces instances of focalization in the… read more
2004 Review of Nünning & Nünning (2002): Neue Ansätze in der Erzähltheorie Narrative Inquiry 14:1, pp. 219–230 | Review
