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Narratology and Modes of Textual Analysis - Coggle Diagram
Narratology and Modes of Textual Analysis
Fabula: Events
Series of logically and chronologically related events that are caused or experienced”, and is “understood as material or content that is worked into a story.
These events or plot points are constructed, along with a set of narratological tools such as characterisation, setting, voice, etc., to produce a story.
Text: Experience and Meaning
While a story is the content of a text, a story does not in itself constitute a text. text = any created form that can be experienced and interpreted.
Text = composition of signs that work together to create meaning. Meaning is then studied through narratology and semiotics.
Narrative text according to Bal: text in which an agent or subject conveys to an address a
story in a particular medium.
Medium = form a text can take i.e novel, film, language, music, architecture, art etc
Sjuzet: Story
Culmination of the elements of the fabula, regarded as the result of ordering of certain plot points i.e themes, timelines, etc..
Story itself hinges on the pacing and interplay of the different elements of the fabula.
Fabula influences sjuzet.
Structuralism
Examines the ways in which the elements of narratives come together to contribute to a larger meaning.
Consider how the smaller elements create the 'bigger picture'.
Emphasises the importance of how and why the elements of a fabula influence the elements of a sjuzet.
Basic structure of a narrative text: author > narrator > focaliser > actors/characters > implied specttors/characters > implied reader > actual reader.
Formalism
Literary text at the centre of meaning, considers 'form' the essential aspect of any analysis
Does not require context for analysis, but rather focusses on the form a text takes such as written, visual, auditory etc.
Also includes analysis of the language, literary devices, style, and visual representations.
Formalism does not consider the intertextual relationships or contextual meanings behind the elements previously mentioned.
The study of how language and imagery creates and recreates "the stone's stoniness" in the text.