Gerard Genette’s Narratology

Gerard Genette’s Narratology

1. 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

2. Gerard Genette French Literary Theorist Associated in particular with the structuralist movement. Adapted the concept of bricolage from Roland Barthes and Claude Levi-Strauss

3. What is Narratology ? In order to understand n arratology’s contribution to semiotics, it is important to grasp the distinction between its three fundamental entities: story, narrative, and narration.

4. 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”

5. F ive aspects

6. Order A story as follows:

7. Order Arranged the Chronological events run like A1 B2 C3 Arranged in Text they may run B1( discovery) A2( flashback) C3 (resolution)

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10. 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 N times(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.

11. Duration Separations between an event and it’s narration Two elements are main in duration

12. 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

13. 3 Idiots

14. Voice Voice is concerned with two question W ho narrates? And from Where ? Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White Chocolate and Musafar Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urberilles

15. Homer’s The Odyssey Mahabharat in Samay Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights 2 States Is the narrator a character in the story?

16. Mood Mood is depended on the ‘Distance’ and ‘perspective’ of the narrator, author and director. Narratives can be Four types

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