This document provides an overview of Gerard Genette's narratology. It discusses that Genette was a French literary theorist who adopted the concepts of "bricolage" from Claude Levi-Strauss and Roland Barthes. Narratology aims to understand the distinction between a story, narrative, and narration. Genette's narratology is derived from his work Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. The five key concepts in Genette's narratology are order, frequency, duration, voice, and mood. Order refers to the sequencing of events in a narrative. Frequency examines the separation between an event and its narration. Duration looks at the difference between discourse time and narrative time

1. Name:Gohil Poojaba S
Roll No.:16
Std:M.A.Sem:2
Sub:Paper No 7
Literary Theory And Criticism
Presentation Topic:Genetee`s
Narratology
Submitted To:M.K.Bhavnagar
University
Year:2015-2017

2. Brief on Gerard Genette:-
• Genette is a French literary theorist.
• He adopted the concept of “Bricolage” from
Claude Levi-Strauss and Roland Barthes.
• In literary theory Structuralist criticism relates
literary text to a larger structure which may be
a particular genre,or a system of recurrent
patterns of motifs.

3. What is Narratology..?
• To understand Narratology`s contribution to
semiotics,it is important to grasp the
distinction between its three fundamental
entities:-
• Story
• Narrative
• And Narration

4. Five Concept of Genette`s Narratology
Genetee`s narratology is derived from Narrative
Discourse:An Essay In Method
• Five important concepts of Genetee in
Narratology
• Listed as:Order,Frequency,Duration,Voice &
Mood

5. Order
• Order is the connection between the sequencing
of events in the arrangements in the narrative.
• A murder occurs-(a)
• Circumstances of the murder are revealed to the
detective-(b)
• Finally the murderer caught-(c)
• Events done like-A1,B2,C3
• Discovery,flashback & Resolution turns with
B1,A2 & C3

6. Order

7. Frequency
• It goes to the sepration between event and its
narration having four possibilities.
• Event occur once and narrated once.
• Event occur times and narrated once.
• Event occur once and narrated once.
• Event occur times and narrated times.

9. Duration
• There are two important elements in it:-
• Discourse and Narrative time
• Within a narrative its may hard sometime to
define exactly it.
• According to Genette:-
• Generally it can be define that is written on
per historical duration of the event.

11. Voice
• It can be concerned with two questions:
• Who narrates..?
• From where..?
• Intra-diegetic
• Extra diegetic
• Homo diegetic
• Hetero diegetic

12. Voice

13. Mood
• It duthor and depends on the Distance and
Pespective of the narrator,and director.
• It changes with narrated speech,transposed
and reported.