Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and FilmNarrative and poetics - Is narrative a semiotic structure? - Narrative inference, selection, and coherence - A sketch of narrative structure - Sequence, contingency, causality - Kernels and satellites - Suspense and surprise - How time distinctions are manifested - Narrative macrostructure and the typology of plot - Story-space and discourse-space - Story-space in cinematic narrative - Story-existents : character - Todorov and barthes on character - Toward an open theory of character - Real author, implied author, narrator, real reader, implied reader, narratee - Narrators' and characters' speech acts - Soliloquy - Stream of consciousness = free association - Covert narrators - Limitation of authority in narrative transmission - Overt narration : set descriptions - Reports of what characters Did not think or say - Implicit commentary : ironic narrator and unreliable narrator - Commentary on the story : interpretation - Commentary on the story : generalization - Commentary on the discou ... |
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
INTRODUCTION | 15 |
EVENTS | 43 |
Kernels and Satellites | 53 |
Suspense and Surprise | 59 |
How Time Distinctions Are Manifested | 79 |
EXISTENTS | 96 |
Character | 107 |
NONNARRATED STORIES | 146 |
COVERT VERSUS OVERT NARRATORS | 196 |
Shifting Limited versus Omniscient Mental Access | 215 |
Temporal Summaries | 222 |
Commentary | 228 |
Interpretation | 237 |
Generalization | 243 |
The Narratee | 253 |
Todorov and Barthes on Character | 113 |
Toward an Open Theory of Character | 119 |
A Paradigm of Traits | 126 |
Bradley and the Analysis of Character | 134 |
CONCLUSION | 261 |
DIAGRAM OF NARRATIVE STRUCTURE | 267 |
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