Response to ongoing debate 2012-2010

Fludernik defines the term “unnatural narrative” as denoting “the fabulous, the

magical, and the supernatural besides the logically or cognitively impossible” (362).

Furthermore, from her perspective, unnatural narratology combines two different

discourses: “the discourse of fable, romance, before-the-novel narrative; and the

discourse of postmodernist anti-illusionism, transgression and metafiction” (36

Richardson argues elsewhere, “we will be most

effective as narrative theorists if we reject models that, based on models derived from

linguistics or natural narrative, insist on firm distinctions, binary oppositions, fixed

hierarchies, or impermeable categories” (Unnatural Voices 139).

unnatural is ultimately a function of our bodily existence in the world (Alber s position) or whether the unnatural lies beyond the scope of our embodiment (the position of Iversen and Nielsen);