Cultural Narratologies: Form and Context in Contemporary Narrative Theory Submission deadline: Sunday, 31th May 2026. Peer-review (est.): August 2026. Publication date: 30 November 2026. Editors: Federico Bertoni (University of Bologna), Gabriele D’Amato (University of L’Aquila and Ghent University), Luca Diani (University of L’Aquila), Massimo Fusillo (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) Since the late twentieth century, narrative theory has undergone a profound transformation, moving beyond the taxonomic paradigms of structuralist narratology (Genette 1980; Prince 1982) to engage more directly with the historical, ideological, and ethical dimensions of storytelling. Within this evolving context, a hermeneutically oriented strand of narrative theory had already begun to challenge the dichotomy between narrative and cultural meaning. Paul Ricœur’s reflections on the temporal dimension of storytelling (1984), Frank Kermode’s explorations of narrative configuration and the “sense of an ending” (2000 [1966]), and Peter Brooks’s analysis of desire as the engine of plot progression (1984) each suggested how narrative form cannot be uncoupled from its context but works as a site for the interpretation and negotiation of affective, cultural, and ideological values. These approaches thus anticipated many of the key questions that would later define cultural narratology. Emerging from the “postclassical” turn (Herman 1999), cultural or “contextualist” (Nünning 2009) [...]
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