Original title: Die typischen Erzählsituationen im Roman. The case study on this page, Stangl & the Holocaust, explores an extreme example of obedience to authority, in which Nazi officer Franz Stangl, who was responsible for the killing of nearly one million Jews, claimed he was simply following orders. Article in English Miscellany 5 of Mario Praz. ‘Tom Jones’ und ‘Tristram Shandy’, Ein Vergleich als Vorstudie zu einer Typologie des Romans. Zeitschrift für Forschung und Unterricht auf dem Fachgebiet der modernen Fremdsprachen. Article on Faulkners short story ‘The Bear‘. "The figural narrative situation" is marked by the dominance of the reflector mode, restricting to a factual representation or using internal focalisation to create the impression of immediacy. In the "first-person narrative situation", the events are related by a "narrating I" who takes part in the action in the fictional world as a character or as the "experiencing I".
Thus, Stanzel distinguishes three narrative situations: The "authorial narrative situation" is characterized by the dominance of the external perspective. These are "mode", "person" and "perspective", which can be divided further into the oppositions "narrator/reflector", "first person/third person" and "internal perspective/external perspective".
Stanzel's typological circle featuring "three typical narrative situations", which describes various possibilities of structuring the mediacity of narrative, is based on three elements. Since the late 1990s, there has been a stronger competition by the narrative model of the French narratologist Gérard Genette in Germany. the introductions of the famous literary scholar Ansgar Nünning). Despite much criticism, his typological circle of three narrative situations is still taught in introductions to German literary studies at German universities (e. Since the 1950s, Stanzel has worked on an analytical topology for the description of the narrative mode, also often called "narrative situation" or "point of view" of narrative texts. Today, he is a professor emeritus of English literature at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. In 1959, he was offered a position as professor (Ordinariat) in Erlangen. After his habilitation in 1955, he was professor in Göttingen.
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