Gerard Genette’s Narratology

1. Name: Nikunj Bhatti
Roll no.:19
M.A. Semester: 2
Enrolment No.: 14101005
Year: 2014-16
Paper no.: 7 (Literary Theory and Criticism)
Submitted to: Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
Topic: Gerard Genette’s Narratology

2. Gerard Genette
• French Literary Theorist
• Associated in particular with
the structuralist movement.
• Adapted the concept of
bricolage from
• Roland Barthes and Claude
Levi-Strauss

3. What is Narratology ?
In order to understand
narratology’s contribution to
semiotics, it is important to
grasp the distinction between
its three fundamental entities:
story, narrative, and narration.

4. Important concept in Genette's narratology
• Narratology derived from-
• Narrative Discourse: An
Essay in Method
• In this work examples used
in it are from
• Proust’s Epic “In Search of
Lost Time”

5. Order
Frequency
DurationVoice
Mood
Five
aspects

6. Order
1)A murder occurs
2)Circumstances
3) Murderer is reveled to a detective
4) Murderer is caught
A story as follows:

7. Order
 Arranged the
Chronological events run
like
• A1
• B2
• C3
 Arranged in Text they
may run
• B1( discovery)
• A2( flashback)
• C3 (resolution)

8. 36 China Town

9. CID Crime Patrol

10. Frequency
Event
occur
Be narrated For Example:
Once Once(Singular) Today I went to the Department.
N
times
Once(Iterative) I used to go to the Department.
Once N
times(Repetitive
)
Today I went to the Department.
Today he went to the Department.
N
times
N
times(Multiple)
I used to go to the Department .
He used to go the department .
I went to the department yesterday.

11. Duration
 Separations between an event and it’s narration
 Two elements are main in duration
1) A discourse time
2) Narrative time

12.  Two main elements of duration
Short narrative Lengthy time
24 hours Five year passed
For example,
James Joyce’s novel Ulysses
For example,
Raj Kumar Hirani’s movie
3 Idiots

13. 3 Idiots

14. Voice
 Voice is concerned with two question
 Who narrates? And from Where?
From Where ?
Intra-diegetic
Extra-
diegetic
 Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in
White
 Chocolate and Musafar
 Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the
D’Urberilles

15. Who narrates ?
Hetero -diegetic
Homo-diegetic
 Homer’s The Odyssey
 Mahabharat in Samay
 Emily Bronte’s Wuthering
Heights
 2 States
Is the narrator a character in the story?

16. Mood
• Mood is depended on the ‘Distance’ and ‘perspective’ of
the narrator, author and director.
Non focalized Focalized
Internally
focalized
Externally
Focalized
Narratives can be Four types

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