GERM 1171 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Narratology
23 Apr 2019
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Study of how stories work, how we make sense of raw materials of a narrative and how we fit them together to form a coherent whole. Also study of different narrative structures, storytelling strategies, aesthetic conventions, types of stories (genres), and their symbolic implications. Many stories not created by a single storyteller. Multiple authorship of scripts is common, especially in us, where story is often pieced together by producers, directors, writers and stars, a truly joint enterprise. Prestigious filmmakers even preferred collaborating with others when creating events of a story. Off screen narrator also a character in story and hence has a vested interest in helping us interpret the events. Sometimes the narrator as in the first person novel is the main character of a movie. In realistic films, the implied author is virtually invisible. In classical narrative structures we are generally aware of a shaping hand in the storyline. In formalistic narratives the author is overtly manipulative.
