Some Novel and Narratology theory

Question 1

Bennett and Royle’s five propositions about stories:

Answer 1

1. Stories are everywhere
2. Stories tell us
3. The telling of a story is always bound up with power, authority, property or domination.
4. Stories are multiple, there is always more than one story
5. Stories have something to say about stories themselves, they always involve self-reflection and metaphysical dimensions

Question 2

Who has the distinction between story and discourse?

Answer 2

Jonathon Culler

Question 3

3 quotes about the literary cannon

Answer 3

“no text makes sense without other texts” - Bennett and Royle
every text is “a new tissue of past citations” - Roland Barthes
Texts should be written with “a feeling that the whole of literature has a simultaneous existence”

Question 4

Bennett and Royle on the Mutant - 3 quotes

Answer 4

“the inventor’s name has mutilated, morphed into that of his creature”
“the monster isn’t so much unnatural than something that comes out of natural, something that goes through and beyond the natural”
“The monster is excluded, abjected, not because it is entirely other, but because it is at least in part identical with that by which is was excluded… the human”

Question 5

Mary Shelley on writing

Answer 5

literary invention “does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos”

Question 6

Toni Morrison

Answer 6

“All good art is political”

Question 7

Who’s is the idea of focalisation?

Answer 7

Gerard Genette

Question 8

Who studies the interaction between intended and real author and coined the term “unreliable narrator”?

Answer 8

Wayne C Booth

Question 9

3 Types of narration:

Answer 9

Homodigetic - narrator is also protagonist
Extradigetic - the narrator is outside of the story being told
Intradigetic - the narrator is inside the fictional world

Question 10

Who said that creature and creator in Frankenstein were “Eve and Eve all along”?

Answer 10

Gilbert and Gubar