Key concepts and basic notes on narratology and narrative
Journal Title: Scientific Journal of Review - Year 2015, Vol 4, Issue 10
Abstract
The field of narratology is concerned with the study and analysis of narrative texts. It puts under investigation literary pieces of language and yields an understanding of the components has in its very texture. The aim of this article is to provide insights about the field of ‘narratology’ and its associated subject of study ‘narrative’. It also tries to sketch the main issues concerning these two concepts. For this, the present review is presented in two major sections, each with related discussions about narratology and narrative. The first major part, narratology, will be presented in three sections: the first section, deals with the definitions and origins of narratology. The definitions are inspected and the researchers show how they go from general (encompassing all which is narrated) to more specific (encompassing literary narratives told by a narrator) ones. The second section, focuses on the two phases of narratology which are classical and post-classical ones in which narratology changed its orientations and scope. The last section is devoted to some of the elements and components of which narratology is made up, such as narration, focolization, narrative situation, action, story analysis, tellability, tense, time, and narrative modes which will be elaborated on in more details. The second major part, narrative, will be presented in four sections: first the concept will be defined and introduced. Then the features which make a narrative will be specified and elaborated on. In the third section, some of the elements of narratives like story, discourse, events, and existents are stressed. In the last section, it is elucidated that narrative is not just a written printed genre, rather it consists of performed genres such as plays, films, and operas.
Authors and Affiliations
M. Amerian| Assistant Professor, Dept. of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Arak University Arak, Iran., L. Jofi*| M.A. in TEFL, Dept. of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Arak University Arak, Iran.
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP215
- DOI 10.14196/sjr.v4i10.1927
- Views 721
- Downloads 44
Correlation between Sargent jump and 45-meter dash in the estimation of the anaerobic power
Mental and physical health of students is important objects of every society, because their health ensures scientific progression and development. The current study was aimed to estimate the anaerobic power in two ways...
Ineffective and invalid wills from the holy quran perspective with a curdory look at its relevant law and regulations
Will means that a person recommends that after his death such and such things should be done, or such and such thing out of his property will be the property of such and such person, or will be spent for charitable purpo...
Impact of macroeconomic variables on the inflows of FDI and agriculture sector of Pakistan
Pakistan is famous due to its agriculture sector, due to this reason we have analyzed the different determinants on the progress of FD I. For this purpose, we have taken data from the year 1998 to 2008 an applied the O...
Crop diversification in India: a study of maize cultivation in Karnataka
Growing need of agricultural production has been greatly felt with the growth of population, not only for the sake of food security but also for providing employment. Crop diversification within the sector has also been...
Investigating the effect of gas flow rate and amount of zinc oxide nanoparticles on the efficacy of photocatalytic oxida
Nitrogen oxides are one of the most important air pollutants in environment and industrythat due to the adverse health and environmental effects should be refined before discharging into the environment. The photocatal...