Philosophy of Education and Educational Philosophy
Geragd Genette's Narratology
1. Monali jethwa
PAPER : 7
TOPIC : Important concept of the
Gerard Genette’s Narratology :-
Sam : 2 M.A
Submitted By :- Dept.Of.English
M.K.Bhavnagar University
2. Gérard Genette
Gérard Genette (born 1930 –
Paris ) is a French literary
theorist, associated in particular
with
the structuralist movement and
such figures as Roland
Barthes and Claude Lévi-
Strauss, from whom he adapted
the concept of bricolage.
He received his professorship in
French literature at the
Sorbonne in1967.
3. What Is Narratology ?
Narratology is a humanities discipline
dedicated to the study of the logic, principles,
and practices of narrative representation.
Dominated by structuralist approaches at its
beginning, narratology has developed into a
variety of theories, concepts, and analytic
procedures.
4. Important concept in Genette’s
narratology
Genette ’s narratology is derived from
Narrative DiscourseAn Essay in Method.
Five main concepts used by Genette in
narratology
That five aspects are:
Order, Frequency, Duration ,Voice, Mood.
5. Order
Order : Order is the relation
between the sequencing of event
in the story and their
arrangement in the narrative.
A murder discovered by
detective {A} ,the circumstances
of the murder are revealed {B},
lastly murderer is caught {C}.
Events done this wayA1, B2,C3
discovery flashback and
resolution goes with B1,A2,and
C3
These disarrangements on the
level of order are termed
‘anachrony ’ .
7. Frequency
Frequency goes with
separation between event
and its narration allows with
four possibilities
An event can occur once and
be narrated once (singular).
An event can occur times and
narrated once (iterative)
An event can occurs once and
narrated times (repetitive)
An event can occur n times be
narrated n times (multiple)
8. Duration
The separation between an
events and its narration.
Two elements are main in
duration, 1) discourse time
and 2) narrative time.
It is usually hard to define
exactly the duration of an
event within a narrative.
Ex: Ulysses has relatively
short narrative time 24
hours. Not many people but
however could read Ulysses
in24 hours .Thus it is safe to
say it has a lengthy discourse.
9. Voice
Voice is concerned with who narrates, and from
where.This can be split four ways.
1- Intra- diegetic 2- Extra- diegetic
10. Is the narrator a character in the story?
Hetero-diegetic: the narrator is
not a character in the story.
BR Chopra’s video of
Mahabharata .
Main Samay Hoon,
Homo-diegetic: the narrator is a
character in the story
11. Mood
Genette said narrative mode is dependent on
the 'distance' and 'perspective' of the
narrator, and like music, narrative mode has
predominant patterns. It is related to voice.
Distance of the narrator changes with
narrated speech, transposed speech and
reported speech.
Mood is at some extent related with voice
perspective of the narrator or director is
known as focalization