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Narrative Scholarship & Theory Graph
Narratologium itself becomes a graph of how humans learned to study stories: from Russian Formalism and French Structuralism to Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Cognitive Historiography.
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Narrative Scholarship & Theoretical Genealogy
Narratologium is grounded in formal literary theory and computational narratology. Explore the foundational scholars (Genette, Propp, Bakhtin, Barthes, White) who invented the analytical tools for dissecting narrative architecture.
EHESS, Paris / Structuralist Narratology
Gérard Genette (1930–2018)
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Core Theoretical Formulation: Formulated the definitive taxonomy of narrative time (Order, Duration, Frequency), Voice (Person, Time of Narrating, Narrative Levels), and Focalization (Zero, Internal, External).
Canonical TextNarrative Discourse: An Essay in Method (Figures III) (1972)Publisher: Cornell University Press
DOI: 10.7591/9781501746208Concepts Formalized
FocalizationDiegesis (Extradiegetic, Intradiegetic, Metadiegetic)Analepsis & ProlepsisSingulative vs. Iterative FrequencyParatextuality
Primary Corpora Analyzed: Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Homeric Epics, Classic Realist Fiction