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Paper: 7Paper Name: Literary Theory and CriticismPrepared by: Drashti MehtaRoll no:8PG Enrollment No:PG13101021Seat No: 11310009Sem:2Email id: [email protected] to: Smt. S. B. Gardi, Department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinghji Bhavnagar University.Bhavnagar UniversityBhavnagar( Gujarat-India)
Gerard Genette
Gerard GenetteAdapted the concept
of bricolage from
Roland Barthes
Claude Levi-Strauss
French Literary TheoristAssociated in
particular with the structuralist movement.
Three aspects of narrative
realityStory
Histoire
Signified or
narrative content
Narrative
Recit
Signifier, discourse
or narrative
text
Narrating
Narration
Narrative act
Relation
NarratingStory
NarratingNarrative
Narrative Story
Narratology
and the ways that these affect our perception.
theory and the study of Narrative and Narrative Structure
It refers to-
Paratext•Preface•Introduction•Illustration
Hypotext •For the source of the text
•Terms and Techniques originating in his vocabulary and systems have , however, became widespread.
Imp. Concepts in Gennett’s Narratology• Narratology derived from-
• “Narrative Discourse”: An Essay in Method
• In this work example used in it are from
• Proust’s Epic “In Search of Lost Time”
Order• A story is as follows-• 1)A murder occurs• 2)Circumstances• 3) Murderer is reveled to
a detective• 4) Murderer is caught• Example: • Movie:36 China Town• Novel , “Great Geatsby”
by F.Scott Fitzgerland.
1.This accounts for the ‘obvious’ effects. 2.Reader will recognize such as Flash back.
• Arranged the Chronological events run like
• A1• B2• C3
• Arranged in Text they may run
• B1( discovery)• A2( flashback)• C3 (resolution)
Order
36 China Town
•Disarrengement can be called-
• Structure of Narratives
•AnachronyOn a more systematic basis
Flash forward Simultaneity
RarelyUsedeffects
Order
Frequency
Event occur
Be narrated For Example:
Once Once(Singular) • Today she went to the College.
N times
Once(Iterative) • She used to go to the College.
Once N times(Repetitive
)
• Today She went to the College.• Today he went to the College.
N times
N times(Multiple)
• She used to went to the College.• He used to went to the College.• They used to went to the College.
•Separations between an event and its narration allows several possibilities. Ex:Macbeth
Duration• Separations
between an event & it’s narration
• Means there is• 1) A discourse
time• 2) Narrative time
• Two main elements of duration
Voice
Who narrates
Hetero -diegetic
Homo-diegetic
• Mahabharat-Samay• Chetan Bhagat-2 States
Samay
MoodNarratives canbe
Non focalized
Internally focalized
Externally Focalized
Focalized
• Examples: Ghajini,Aparichit
Narrative mood dependent
Distance Changes Narrative SpeechTra
nsposed
speech
Reported speech
Perspective
Focalization
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