MARKET 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Narratology, Epic Poetry
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Kinds of narratives: novel, short story, novella, folkloristic (oral) storytelling, epic poetry, medieval prose narrative, romance, multimodal novel, anything that tells a story (film, photography ) Characteristics of a novel: fictional, certain length, specific setting, has a storyline/plot, multiple characters, has a narrator, written in prose ( verse) Characteristics of a short story: limited length, tendency to open beginning and ending, less characters, less plot lines, has a narrator. Monika fludernik"s definition of narrative (traditionally) narrated by a narrator mediating the story: representation of possible worlds, linguistic and/or visual medium (traditionally verbal, several protagonists of anthropomorphic nature, action and plot structure, focus on experience of the protagonists. What is narratology: study of how narrative works (as cultural practice, scientific approach to narrative texts. Discourse-oriented: how is it told, concerned with how the narrative is transmitted (narrative perspective, stanzel: narrative situation , focus on the way characters, events, plot elements, psychological elements are mediated or presented.
