here i have try t clear the concept of the Gerard 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

12. Mood

13. References:
 http://dilipbarad.blogspot.in /2015/03/
stucturalism-and-literary-criticism.html
 http:// www.signosemio.com/genette/index-
en.asp
 www.slideshere.net
 www.google image.com
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eiihNUnq5
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr0F6KV2W
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