narrative theory what is the role of the narrator in a literary text?
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Narrative Narrative TheoryTheory
Narrative Narrative TheoryTheory
What is the role of the narrator What is the role of the narrator in a literary text?in a literary text?
Narrative Narrative TheoryTheory
Narrative Narrative TheoryTheory
From:From:AN OUTLINE OF NARRATIVE THEORYAN OUTLINE OF NARRATIVE THEORY
J. SHARPE - STANTON COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOLJ. SHARPE - STANTON COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL
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The Narrative Situation
The AuthorCREATES
On the basis of certain moral, intellectual, aesthetic, and political concerns
The Narrator
The Fabula:•Location
(setting)
•Events
•Characters
A Fictional World
WHO VIEWS
WHO ReportsThe story through the
text.
The Reader
to
The Narrator’s Experience of The Narrator’s Experience of the Fabulathe Fabula
The Narrator’s Experience of The Narrator’s Experience of the Fabulathe Fabula
The Narrator’s Experience of The Narrator’s Experience of the Fabulathe Fabula
The Narrator’s Experience of The Narrator’s Experience of the Fabulathe Fabula
The Narrator’s Experience of The Narrator’s Experience of the Fabulathe Fabula
The Narrator’s Experience of The Narrator’s Experience of the Fabulathe Fabula
•Complete world
•Seamless sequence of events
•Millions of events, locations, and actions
•Sequential
•Unaware of everything
The Author’s Experience of the The Author’s Experience of the FabulaFabula
The Author’s Experience of the The Author’s Experience of the FabulaFabula
The Author’s Experience of the The Author’s Experience of the FabulaFabula
The Author’s Experience of the The Author’s Experience of the FabulaFabula
The Author’s Experience of the The Author’s Experience of the FabulaFabula
The Author’s Experience of the The Author’s Experience of the FabulaFabula
•Incomplete world
•Collection of related events
•Finite number of, locations, and actions
•Non-Sequential
•Aware of Aware of everythingeverything
The Reader’s Experience of the The Reader’s Experience of the FabulaFabula
The Reader’s Experience of the The Reader’s Experience of the FabulaFabula
The Reader’s Experience of the The Reader’s Experience of the FabulaFabula
The Reader’s Experience of the The Reader’s Experience of the FabulaFabula
The Reader’s Experience of the The Reader’s Experience of the FabulaFabula
•Shadow world
•Collection of related events
•Finite number of, locations, and actions
•Non-Sequential
•Aware only of what the narrator tells us???
The Reader’s Experience of the The Reader’s Experience of the FabulaFabula
The Narrative Transaction
Implied Author Implied ReaderReal Author Real ReaderNarrator Narratee
Narrative Distance
CAMERA
VIEW
MIND READ
ER
•The narrator reports on the thoughts and feeling (even unconscious thoughts and feelings) of the character even to the point of speaking the character's unspoken thoughts in the character's style.
•First person narrator is NOT the closest distance. The First person narrator may be unaware of his own thoughts, feelings, or motivations.
• Note that some narrators report on their earlier selves to achieve the insight that third person narrator does (retrospective narration) - indeed a narrator may change himself into a third person narrator separated by time from his earlier self. • This narrator reports only
actions and situations. He is an observer and commentator on characters' action only. What about
truth???
What about truth?
Presentation Prepared by:
Carolyn P. HenlyMeadowbrook HS4901 Cogbill Rd.
Richmond, VA 23234804-743-3683
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