Narrative Discourse

Genette, G. (1980). Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. Cornell University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1980

Link

https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801492594/narrative-discourse/

Cited from

art_aesthetics, literature_literary_theory, philosophy

Cited by

4 citations across 4 artifacts.

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Primes

• Fabula And Syuzhet
  • Nonlinear narratives, Russian-Formalist analysis, and Genette's anatomy of order/duration/frequency all turn on the chronology-versus-telling split.

    This sourceTranslated by Jane E. Lewin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980. Systematic anatomy of order, duration, and frequency relating story chronology to the order and manner of its telling — the canonical formalization of the chronology-versus-telling split.

• Form and Content
  • The prime names a recurring axis of decomposition, not a guarantee that any given object splits along a single clean seam.

    This sourceNarratological framework distinguishing story (histoire), narrative (récit), and narrating. SUPPORTS the claim that the form/content split is an axis of decomposition applicable at multiple layered levels rather than a single two-part split (471).

• Viewpoint
  • Literary narratology. Focalization fixes which character's perceptual and epistemic position the narrative is anchored to, determining what the reader can access and what is occluded.

    This sourceTranslated by Jane E. Lewin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980. Focalization fixes which character's perceptual and epistemic position anchors the narrative, determining what the reader can access and what is occluded.

Domain-specific

• Focalisation
  • … directly demonstrates that the narrating voice, focalizing position, focalized object, knowledge and perceptual limits, duration, shifts, and textual evidence are explicitly distinguished. to An applied instance preserves the same invariant under a changed scale, notation, jurisdiction, dataset, or implementation..

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