ABSTRACT: Starting out with the observation that collective storytelling has only recently received sufficient narratological attention, this article outlines the pervasiveness of plural subjects in factual narratives and their comparative lack of salience in fictional texts. Discussing the collective on the levels of agency, mind, and narration, the article examines the alternation between plural and singular referents, using crowd scenes as illustrative example. It then turns to we-texts and the ambiguities of the first-person plural pronoun both on the plot and the narrational levels. The final section of the article compares factual and fictional collective narration, emphasizing how fictional we-narratives exceed familiar grammatical constraints in order to achieve particular semantic and narrative effects. The essay is a preliminary step in the development of a poetics of collective narrative, both factual and fictional.

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行动和思想中的众多：走向叙事中的集体诗学

摘要：本文首先观察到集体叙事直到最近才受到足够的叙事学关注，本文概述了事实叙事中多元主题的普遍性及其在虚构文本中相对缺乏显着性。文章从能动性、思想和叙述的层面上讨论集体，以人群场景为例，考察了复数和单数所指对象之间的交替。然后转向我们文本和第一人称复数代词在情节和叙事层面的歧义。文章的最后一节比较了事实和虚构的集体叙事，强调虚构的我们叙事如何超越熟悉的语法限制，以达到特定的语义和叙事效果。