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This document summarizes Gerard Genette's influential concepts in narratology. It discusses five key concepts from his work Narrative Discourse: Order, Frequency, Duration, Voice, and Mood. Order refers to the relationship between the sequence of events in the story and how they are arranged in the narrative. Frequency examines how often an event occurs and is narrated. Duration compares the timeframe of an event versus its narrative description. Voice identifies who is narrating and from what perspective. Mood relates to the distance and perspective of the narrator. The document provides examples and explanations of each concept to outline Genette's structuralist approach to analyzing narratives.
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Introduction to Maharaja Krishnkumar Sinhji Bhavnagar University. Discusses Gerard Genette's contribution to structuralism in literary criticism and nominates key theorists.
Highlights that structuralism views literature as part of larger patterns, illustrated with a comparison between West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet.
Presents five key concepts in Genette's narratology: Order, Frequency, Duration, Voice, and Mood, derived from his seminal work 'Narrative Discourse'.
Discusses the sequencing of events in narratives, exemplified through a murder mystery structure with chronological arrangement and flashbacks.
Explores the relationship between events and their narration, detailing four possible frequency scenarios: singular, iterative, repetitive, and multiple.
Examines discourse time versus narrative time, introducing Genette's approach to defining event duration relative to historical context.
Focuses on the concept of narrative voice, addressing who narrates and the perspective from which they narrate. Explains intra- and extra-diegetic voices.
Describes mood as influenced by the distance and perspective of the narrator, connecting it to voice and introducing the concept of 'focalization'.
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- 1. • Maharaja Krisnkumarsinhji Bhavnagar University • Literary Theory and Criticism paper no: 7 • Presentation topic: Five important concepts of Genetee’s narratology • M. A. Sem: 2 Year: 2014 Roll no: 7 • Presenter: Drashti V. Dave • Submitted to: Smt. S.B. Gardi.Department of English
- 2. Gerard Genette: Structuralismand literary criticism • Genette is a French literary theorist, he adopted the concept of “bricolage” from Claude Levi-Strauss and Roland Barthes. • In literary theory structuralist criticism relates literary text to a larger structure which may be a particular genre, or a system of recurrent patterns or motifs. Structura list critics Roland Barthes Tztevan Todorov Julia Kristiva Gerard Genette
- 3. • Literary criticapplying a structuralist literary theory might say that the authors of West side story did not write anything ‘really’ new, but their work has the same structure as Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. • Structuralist literary criticism argues that the “novelty value of a literary text”.
- 4. Important concept inGenetee's narratology • Genetee’s narratology is derived from Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. • Five main concepts used by Genette in narratology…… • That five aspects are; • 1) Order 2) Frequency 3) Duration 4) Voice 5) Mood. Existence Characters Setting Story Events Existence Narrative text Discourse Story
- 5. 1) Order: • Orderis the relation between the sequencing of events in the story and their arrangement in the narrative. • A murder occurs (a); than circumstances of the murder are revealed to a detective (b), and finally the murderer caught (c). • Events done this way A1, B2, C3, discovery, flashback and resolution goes with B1, A2 and C3.
- 6. 2) Frequency: • Frequencygoes with separation between event and its narration allows with four possibilities. 1. Event can occur once and be narrated once (singular). 2. Event can occur times and narrated once (iterative). 3. Event can occur once and narrated times (repetitive). 4. Event can occur n times be narrated n times (multiple).
- 7. 3) Duration: • Twoelements are main in duration, i) discourse time and ii) narrative time. • It is usually hard to define exactly the duration of an event within a narrative. • Genette proposes that we define relative duration of the event is written on per historical duration of the event
- 8. 4) Voice: Voice isconcerned with two question who narrates? And from where? 1) Intra- diegetic 2) Extra diegetic:
- 9. 3) Homo- diegetic4) Hetero-diegetic
- 10. • It isa intra- homo diegetic • Narrator as a character in the work. (Homo) • And inside the text. (Intra)
- 11. 5) Mood: Mood isdepended on the ‘Distance’ and ‘perspective’ of the narrator, author and director. Mood is at some extent related with voice. Perspective of the narrator or director is known as ‘focalization’