Narrative Form

Question 1

Morey

Answer 1

‘having space to narrate means having power’

Question 2

Barthes

Answer 2

‘the author is dead’ - should not consider author in interpretation

Question 3

Aristotle

Answer 3

Classic history and fiction division - but fiction as superior

Question 4

Allinson

Answer 4

Introductions shape ‘narrative probabilities’

Question 5

Scholes - fabulation

Answer 5

Fables ‘emphasise the art of the designer’; it is an attempt to find ‘more subtle correspondences between reality and fiction’

Question 6

Scholes - allegory vs realism

Answer 6

‘Realism is committed to the visual world, allegory to the invisible’
‘In allegory…tension between the ideational and human creates meaning’

Question 7

Scholes - dislocations in time and space

Answer 7

‘Dislocations in time and space…involve the reader in the constructive process’

Question 8

Brooks

Answer 8

‘meaning will never lie in the summing-up but only in transmission…meaning is hence dialogic in nature…born of the relationship between tellers and listeners’