Post on 14-Jul-2015
Name: Nikunj Bhatti
Roll no.:19
M.A. Semester: 2
Enrolment No.: 14101005
Year: 2014-16
Paper no.: 7 (Literary Theory and Criticism)
Submitted to: Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
Topic: Gerard Genette’s Narratology
Gerard Genette
• French Literary Theorist
• Associated in particular with
the structuralist movement.
• Adapted the concept of
bricolage from
• Roland Barthes and Claude
Levi-Strauss
What is Narratology ?
In order to understand
narratology’s contribution to
semiotics, it is important to
grasp the distinction between
its three fundamental entities:
story, narrative, and narration.
Important concept in Genette's narratology
• Narratology derived from-
• Narrative Discourse: An
Essay in Method
• In this work examples used
in it are from
• Proust’s Epic “In Search of
Lost Time”
Order
1)A murder occurs
2)Circumstances
3) Murderer is reveled to a detective
4) Murderer is caught
A story as follows:
Order
Arranged the
Chronological events run
like
• A1
• B2
• C3
Arranged in Text they
may run
• B1( discovery)
• A2( flashback)
• C3 (resolution)
Frequency
Event occur
Be narrated For Example:
Once Once(Singular) Today I went to the Department.
N times
Once(Iterative) I used to go to the Department.
Once Ntimes(Repetitive
)
Today I went to the Department. Today he went to the Department.
N times
N times(Multiple)
I used to go to the Department . He used to go the department .
I went to the department yesterday.
Duration
Separations between an event and it’s narration
Two elements are main in duration
1) A discourse time
2) Narrative time
Two main elements of duration
Short narrative Lengthy time
24 hours Five year passed
For example,
James Joyce’s novel Ulysses
For example,
Raj Kumar Hirani’s movie
3 Idiots
Voice
Voice is concerned with two question
Who narrates? And from Where?
From Where ?
Intra-diegetic
Extra-
diegetic
Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in
White
Chocolate and Musafar
Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the
D’Urberilles
Who narrates ?
Hetero -diegetic
Homo-diegetic
Homer’s The Odyssey
Mahabharat in Samay
Emily Bronte’s Wuthering
Heights
2 States
Is the narrator a character in the story?
Mood
• Mood is depended on the ‘Distance’ and ‘perspective’ of
the narrator, author and director.
Non focalized FocalizedInternally focalized
Externally Focalized
Narratives can be Four types