This document discusses Gerard Genette's concepts of narratology. It outlines five key concepts from Genette's work: frequency, duration, voice, mood, and focalization. Frequency refers to how many times an event occurs versus how many times it is narrated. Duration distinguishes between the time of a narrated event and the time it takes to narrate the event. Voice looks at who is narrating and their perspective. Mood depends on the narrator's distance and perspective. Focalization refers to the perspective through which events are narrated. The document provides examples to illustrate each concept.

1. Topic - Gerard Genette`s narratology
: Nasim. R Gaha
Roll No: 22Name
Email ID: gahanasim786@gmail.com
Paper: Literary Theory and criticism
Submitted: Department English

2. Gerard Genette: Structuralism
In structuralism critic is secondary to the writer.
Critic reads literature as a cultural production.
Structuralism in literary criticism is an approach
to the analyzing the narrative material.
Novelty value of a literary text can lie only in new
structures.

3. What is structuralism
 It is a literary theory
It can be related it with text and make study
of text.
System of recurrent patterns of motifs.
Studied the underlying structure.

4. Five concept of narrative
1. Frequency
2. Duration
3. Voice
4. Mood

5. Frequency
• The separation between an event and its
narration allows several possibilities.
• Example: An event can occur once and be
narrated once (Singular)( give me more –
Gandhi)
• An event can occur once and be narrated n time (
repetitive)( Devotee : Ram,ram)

6. Duration
• The separation between an event and t its
narration means that there is discourse time
and narrative time. These are the two main
element of duration.
• Example: Five year passed”, has a lengthy
discourse time, five years, but a short
narrative time, ( Kuda gawah , Gunday)

7. Voice
• Voice is concerned with who narrates, and from where.
This can be split four ways.
• Where the narration is from:( crime petrol, Robinson
Crusoe )
• Is the narrator a character in the story? ( Oliver)

8. Mood
• Genette said narrative mood is dependent on the
‘distance’ and ;perspective’ of the r narrator, and
like music, narrative mood has predominant
patterns. It is related to voice. Distance of the
narrator changes with narrated speech.
• Perspective of the narrator is called focalization.
Narratives can be nonfocalized, internally
focalized or externally focal
• Example :- The Three mistakes of my life by
Chetan bhagat in Govind’s character