Genett's Narratology

1. Paper: 7
Paper Name: Literary Theory and
Criticism
Prepared by: Drashti Mehta
Roll no:8
PG Enrollment No:PG13101021
Seat No: 11310009
Sem:2
Email id:
drashti.mehta.111993@gmail.com
Submitted to: Smt. S. B. Gardi,
Department of English, Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinghji Bhavnagar

2. Gerard Genette

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

4. Three aspects of
narrative reality
Story
Histoire
Signified or
narrative
content
Narrative
Recit
Signifier, disc
ourse or
narrative text
Narrating
Narration
Narrative act

5. Relation
NarratingStory
NarratingNarrative
Narrative Story

6. Narratology
With the general theory and practice of narrative in all forms.
Narratology- became prominent – in mid-twentieth century
and the ways that these affect our
perception.
theory and the study of Narrative and
Narrative Structure
It refers to-

7. • Preface
• Introduction
• Illustration
Paratext
• For the source of the text
Hypotext
•Terms and Techniques originating in
his vocabulary and systems have ,
however, became widespread.

8. 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”

9. 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.

10. 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

11. 36 China Town

12. •Disarrengement
can be called-
• Structure of Narratives
•Anachrony
On a more
systematic basis
Flash
forward
Simultaneity
Rarely
Used
effects
Order

13. 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(Repetitiv
e)
•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

14. Duration
• Separations
between an event
& it’s narration
• Means there is
• 1) A discourse
time
• 2) Narrative time
• Two main elements of
duration
Student of the
year
Three Idiots
24 hours Five year passed
Short narrative Lengthy time

16. Voice
Who
narrates
Hetero -
diegetic
Homo-
diegetic
From
where
Intra-
diegetic
Extra-
diegetic
• Mahabharat-Samay
• Chetan Bhagat-2 States

17. Samay

18. Mood
Narratives
canbe
Non focalized
Internally
focalized
Externally
Focalized
Focalized
• Examples: Ghajini,Aparichit
Narrative mood dependent
Distance
Changes
Narrative
Speech
Transposed
speech Reporte
d speech
Perspective
Focalization

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