Literary Criticism, Gererd Genette's Narratology, French literary theorist, Five staple of narratology, order, frequency, Duration, voice, mood

1.  Name : Jeel J. Vyas
 Class : M.A. Sem 2
 Bach : 2018 – 2020
 Roll No : 15
 Paper No : 7. Literary Theory and Criticism 2 (
20th century western and Indian poetics)
 Topic : Gerard Genette’s narratology with the
help of Movie Badla
 Enrolment No : 2069108420190045
 Submitted: Smt. S.B.Gardi Department of
English.

2. Gerard Genette
 French literary
theorist.
 Associated with
Structuralist
movement.
 Structuralism and
Literary criticism.
 Intellectul bricolage.
 Narrative discourse.
 Narratology.

3. BADLA
 Mystery thriller
 Directed by Sujoy
Gosh.
 Adaptation of
Spanish Film The
Invisible Guest.

4. 1. Order:
 Story’s flow
 a Murder occurs ( event A)
 Circumstances of the Murder are
revealed to detective ( event B )
 Finally the murderer is caught. ( event
C)
 This order is change according to
narrater.

5. 2. Frequency :
 The separation between an event and
its narration.
 Occur once and be narrated once.
 Occur once and narrated in times.
 Occur in times and narrated once.
 Occur in times and narrated in times.

6. 3. Duration :
 The separation between an event and
its narration.
 Narration time : story narrated to
audience.
 Discourse time : time pass in story.

7. 4. Voice :
voice is concerned with who narrate and from
where.
 Intra diegetic :
narration is from
inside the text.
 Extra diegetic :
narration is from out
side the text.
 Hetero diegetic:
narrator is not charater
of story.
 Homo diegetic:
narrator is charater of
story.

8. 5. Mood :
 Mood is dependent on the distance and
perspective of the narrator.
 Mood is connected with the voice.
 If the narrter is part of the story then we
found that distance and perspative are
limited.

9. Conclusion :
 So, to conclude we can say that Gerard
Genette’s narratology is plays important
role to understand perticulaer story’s
narration.