תקציר:
Nature makes me nervous. Insofar as we are theorists, it should make us all nervous, since “[t]he main thrust of recent theory . . . has been the critique of whatever is taken as natural” (Culler 1992: 207). Evidently there was a time when it made Monika Fludernik nervous enough that she placed the word “natural” between scare quotes in the very title of her groundbreaking book, Towards a 'Natural' Narratology, published just over twenty years ago. Fludernik keeps “nature” quarantined in her title and throughout the better part of her book - prudently so, since “nature” is such an ideologically charged concept. But it is hard to keep nature in its place once it has gotten a toehold in an argument, as this article aims to document. © 2018 Johns Hopkins University Press