We are pleased to establish the positive and mutually enriching connection with the seemingly one of the most important projects in our field - Hamburg Narratological Group (Forschergruppe Narratologie an der Universitat Hamburg), with the help of our co-Editor in Chief - Professor Wolf Schmid, who is one of the very important members of this venture.

Narratology of Culture as regards to the AJCN is perceived in the "conventional", mildly balanced scholarly modus operandi, as it pertains to the grand-field of the Humanities. It is seen as an artificial stature of "universal humanitarian science", absorbing the semiological bias of "sign-cognition issues", genuinely becoming the General Theory of Textual Analysis. According to the basic conceptual standpoints the 'narratology of culture' is locating itself within an intermediate position in between the structuralist semiotics from one side and the "critique" of "reader's" reaction i.e. the receptionist aesthetics from another.

The substantial concerns and contentions of AJCN are as following:

• the "communicative" perception of literariness
• the artistic act of communication is cognized in terms of a polytonal, and at times reciprocal process, occurring simultaneously within the several dissimilar "descriptive levels of recital"
• overall preoccupation with the issue of "the discourse"
• theoretical meditation over the different "poles" of narrative-institutions, which maintain the very chain of transmitting the artistic information from what is called "author" to what is labeled as a "reader.
• the potential aim is to display the inner scheme of mechanical hierarchy, prevailing behind the complex relationship betwixt the entities of "storytelling", "recital", "history", as uniting under the contextual "roof" of the narrative.

All the magnitude of modern thinkers, whose oeuvre deals with the "discursive analysis" dispose, naturally the dormant interest for our quiescent publications.

We will be welcoming nearly every scholarly article, devoted to a certain topic, within any field of humanities, which takes into consideration (to some extent) the theoretical standpoints as described above.