ENGL120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Antihero, Character Theory
22 Aug 2018
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Today: distinctions between story and discourse, representation of time how this can be exploited for narrative meaning and tool for analysis, e. g. As the traveller described the ruins he had seen, a man listened and was led with wonder . Narrative the representation of a series of events in textual form. Evident through textual component + obvious series/related events + subsequents. Story: what happens, to whom, where and when. Story refers to which is recounted in a narrative: Discourse: the way in which the story is told: the expression, rather than the content, of a narrative. The discourse refers to how the narrative is recounted. What roles do the actions perform in the narrative? e. g. kernels, satellites, catalysts. Narrative events have not only a logic of connection, but a logic of hierarchy. Kernels are narrative moments that give rise to cruses in the direction take by events.
