A Dictionary of NarratologyHistory, literature, religion, myth, film, psychology, theory, and daily conversation all rely heavily on narrative. Cutting across many disciplines, narratology describes and analyzes the language of narrative with its regularly recurring patterns, deeply established conventions for transmission, and interpretive codes, whether in novels, cartoons, or case studies. ø Indispensable to writers, critics, and scholars in many fields, A Dictionary of Narratology provides quick and reliable access to terms and concepts that are defined, illustrated, and cross-referenced. All entries are keyed to articles or books in which the terms originated or are exemplified. This revised edition contains additional entries and updates some existing ones. |
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ACTANT ADDRESSEE ANACHRONY ANALEPSIS Aristotle 1968 Barthes became unhappy Bremond Brooks and Warren canonical narrative character character's utterances Chatman CODE Cohn DIEGESIS DIEGETIC Dijk distinction Doležel Ducrot and Todorov eats a hamburger EMBEDDING Eugénie Grandet events recounted example external extradiegetic FACTORS OF COMMUNICATION FALSE HERO Fiction FIKTIONALE ERZÄHLEN FIRST-PERSON NARRATIVE FREE INDIRECT DISCOURSE FREYTAG'S PYRAMID Friedman 1955b function fundamental ROLES Genette Greimas and Courtés Greimas's hamburger every day Hénault HERO HETERODIEGETIC HETERODIEGETIC NARRATOR HOMODIEGETIC NARRATIVE illocutionary act INTERNAL FOCALIZATION Jakobson John Labov Lanser Mary metanarrative MODALITY mode MOTIF narrative audience NARRATIVE SITUATION Narratology narratorial mediation OMNISCIENT opposed perlocutionary act perspective PLOT POINT OF VIEW presented preterite Prince Propp protagonist relations representation represented s/he SECOND-PERSON NARRATIVE semantic SENDER signifying situations and events Souriau's SPHERE OF ACTION Stanzel story SUBJECT TAG CLAUSE temporal THIRD-PERSON NARRATIVE thoughts Tom Jones Tomashevsky 1965 transformation University Press verbal whereby a character's ZERO FOCALIZATION