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This accounts for the 'obvious' effects the reader will recognise, such as flashback. It also deals with the structure of narratives on a more systematic basis, accounting for flash-forward, simultaneity, as well as possible, if rarely used, effects. These disarrangements on the level of order are
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His international influence is not as great as that of some others identified with structuralism, such as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss; his work is more often included in selections or discussed in secondary works than studied in its own right. Terms and techniques originating in his
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Say a story is narrated as follows: the clues of a murder are discovered by a detective (event A); the circumstances of the murder are finally revealed (event B); and lastly the murderer is caught (event C).
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Genette said narrative mood is dependent on the 'distance' and 'perspective' of the narrator, and like music, narrative mood has predominant patterns. It is related to voice.
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If these events were described chronologically, they would run B1, A2, C3. Arranged in the text, however, they run A2 (discovery), B1 (flashback), C3 (resolution).
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One criticism which had been used against previous forms of narratology was that they could deal only with simple stories, such as
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Add corresponding numbers to the lettered events that represent their order chronologically: 1, 2, and 3.
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has a relatively short narrative time, twenty-four hours. Not many people, however, could read
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for prefaces, introductions, illustrations or other material accompanying the text, or
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Voice is concerned with who narrates, and from where. This can be split four ways.
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The separation between an event and its narration allows several possibilities.
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Homo-diegetic: the narrator is a character in the story. e.g. Emily Brontë's
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in twenty-four hours. Thus it is safe to say it has a lengthy discourse time.
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Hetero-diegetic: the narrator is not a character in the story. e.g. Homer's
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vocabulary and systems have, however, become widespread, such as the term
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The separation between an event and its narration means that there is
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An event can occur many times and be narrated many times (multiple).
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An event can occur once and be narrated many times (repetitive).
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An event can occur many times and be narrated once (iterative).
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vocabulary into literary criticism, for example such terms as
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Among other positions, Genette was research director at the
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Genette is largely responsible for the reintroduction of a
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He received his professorship in French literature at the
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An event can occur once and be narrated once (singular).
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Extra-diegetic: outside the text. e.g. Thomas Hardy's
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Intra-diegetic: inside the text. e.g. Wilkie Collins'
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Below are the five main concepts used by Genette in
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French
literary theorist
structuralist
Roland Barthes
Claude Lévi-Strauss
bricolage
Paris
Lycée Lakanal
École Normale Supérieure
University of Paris
French Communist Party
Socialisme ou Barbarie
Sorbonne
Hélène Cixous
Tzvetan Todorov
Éditions du Seuil
École des hautes études en sciences sociales

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