Narratology Flashcards
what is narrotology
Methodological tool of analysis
What is narrotology about
Mediacy = principle quality of being mediated
Franz K. Stanzels typology model:
2 modes:
Person
Perspektive
the therree narative situations
Stanzels typology model:
2 modes:
Narrator mode:
Explicit narration by a narrator
Vs.
Reflector-mode:
Presentation trough consciousness of protagonist
Person
Identity or non identity of narrator and protagonist part of the narated world
Are they the same: narator and protoganis or not
Perspektive
Internal or external perspective
Internal perspective (inside of the story) means that the narrative focuses on thoughts and emotions while external perspektive (outside his story) focuses solely on characters’ actions, behavior, the setting
Is the perception located outside or inside of the story.
First person narrator: - main things that sets it apparat from the figural:
* Narrative and experiencing eye = both narrates and experiences * Can be protagonist or simply a vidness (but the perspektive Is always internal)
Authorial:
* Godlike - panoramic view
* Knows past, present, and future
Figural narrative situation
* 3 pers, reflector mode, internal,
* Complete absence - meaning no narrative voice
* It creates an illusion of immediacy (direct access to the character and story) - there cant even be non identity because there is no narrator - so no mediation institution if you will, just reflectormode.
draw and explain stanzels model
First person narrator: - main things that sets it apparat from the figural:
* Narrative and experiencing eye = both narrates and experiences * Can be protagonist or simply a vidness (but the perspektive Is always internal)
Authorial:
* Godlike - panoramic view
* Knows past, present, and future
Figural narrative situation
* 3 pers, reflector mode, internal,
* Complete absence - meaning no narrative voice
* It creates an illusion of immediacy (direct access to the character and story) - there cant even be non identity because there is no narrator - so no mediation institution if you will, just reflectormode.
Omniscient
all knowing
Frame Narrative:
A story within a story, within sometimes yet another story
Telling vs. Showing
- Simple: Does the narrator show or tell us
Thoughts and speech diegetic (telling) or given directly (mimetic/shown)
2 Speech representation:
Free indirect discourse
Interior Monologue
- Free indirect discourse
Mixes character and narrators voices- Interior Monologue
- Quoted without any mediating instance. Extensive use of first-person singular
A stream o f conciousness
who or what is the focalizer
- Presence of a reflector-character
main function is to reflect, i.e., to mirror in his.consciousness what is going on in the world outside or inside himself. A. reflector-character never narrates in the sense of verbalizing his perceptions, thoughts and feelings
Focaliser = the question of who is seeing, is also acsess to focalisers feelings, expressions, though.
However there is still also a narrator.
It’s a bit like the reflector - they are our emotional, physical, cognative anker.
For eksampe the narrator is not part of the world, but we still have 3 person acess to a characters feelings meaning that character is the focalizer.
Heterodiegetic, Homodiegetic, Autodiegetic
Heterodiegetic - outside the story
vs
Homodiegtic - inside the story
autodiegetic - telling their own story
Diegesis
story
Extradiagetic
intradiegetic
Hypodiegetic
The extradiegetic narrator is the narrator of the first degree of the story. They are external to the diegesis. The extradiegetic narrator (outside) is therefore telling the intradiegetic narrative (inside the story).
A character within the diegesis can be/become an intradiegetic narrator when they tell a story. As you pointed out, this happens in the case of an embedded narrative. In this case, the character becomes an intradiegetic narrator telling the hypodiegetic narrative. The diegesis always refers to the first level of the story world, the second level would be the hypodiegetic level. If a character on the hypodiegetic level begins telling a story, they become the hypodiegetic narrator of a story taking place on the hypo-hypodiegetic level, and so on.
an intradiegetic narrator is any narrator that is positioned within the diegesis. The website
what do we call a story within a story
Embedded narative
The internal focaliser can be one of three things?
Fixed focalization: same perspective(restricted to one character) (so maybe fixed internal focalisation)
Variable: Different scenes = different focalizers, think sifi novels,
Multible: Same event several perspectives (or focalizers)
Perceptibility can be?
Overt: intrusive, obvious, we feel the narrators presence
Covert: Minimal Narratorial presence: mostly reporting not cognitive. Citation, if characters are talking a lot. Even if they are talking about there feelings then you are closer to the character.
A first person narrator can also be overt.