Paper: 7Paper Name: Literary Theory and CriticismPrepared by: Drashti MehtaRoll no:8PG Enrollment No:PG13101021Seat No: 11310009Sem:2Email id: drashti.mehta.111993@gmail.comSubmitted 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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