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II. Literary Genre: The
Novel
2.
How does a novel represent the individual's internal struggle?
Gérard
Genette. “Les catégories du récit littéraire: Frontières du
recit”.
Key Terms (tags): novel,
Supporting References:
- Translation of Article:
“Boundaries of Narrative”
Gérard Genette and
Ann Levonas
New Literary
History , Vol. 8, No. 1, Readers and Spectators: Some Views
and Reviews (Autumn, 1976), pp. 1-13
Published by: The
Johns Hopkins University Press
Article Stable URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/468611
- "narrative levels" http://wikis.sub.uni-hamburg.de/lhn/index.php/Narrative_Levels
- Buchanan, Ian. "Genette, Gérard." A Dictionary of Critical Theory. : Oxford University Press, 2010. Oxford Reference. 2010. Date Accessed 16 Aug. 2013
The article offers
an overview of Gérard and less a discussion on the above-cited
text.
“Genette,
Gérard (1930–) French, structuralistliterary
theorist. Born in Paris, Genette studied at the École Normale
Supérieure, where his classmates included Jacques
*Derrida and Pierre
*Bourdieu. After an obligatory period of
teaching in lycées, Genette obtained a position at the Sorbonne in
1963 and then a more permanent post at the École des Hautes Études
en Sciences Sociales in 1967. Together with Tzvetan
*Todorov and Hélène
*Cixous, he founded the journal Poétique
in 1970, which became a key organ of the structuralist and
post-structuralist
movements in Paris and a significant rival to Tel Quel.
Genette's work focuses on the question of how literary writing
works, that is, what sets it apart from other forms of non-literary
writing, but also how does it achieve certain of its effects. His
approach, consistent with Lévi-Strauss's
original geological inspiration for structuralism, tends to be
stratified: he investigates the ways different parts of the literary
text interact and devotes considerable attention to identifying and
analysing these parts. He enlarges the Russian
Formalist binary of fabulasjužet
to a trinity by adding what he calls the narrative instance, namely
the act of telling the story itself, thus taking into account its
performative
dimension. Genette's star has waned in recent years with the
movement away from such purely formal questions towards more
politically motivated problems in literary theory. His key works are
collected in a series of volumes entitled Figures I (1966),
Figures II (1969), and Figures III (1972), a
selection of which has been compiled and translated into English as
Figures of Literary Discourse (1984).”
- “narratology” http://www.signosemio.com/genette/narratology.asp
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