SUSANA ONEGA and JOSE ANGEL GARCIA LANDA

Narratology: an Introduction 


A narrative is the semiotic representation of a series of events meaningfully connected in a temporal and causal way. Films, plays, comic strips, novels, newsreels, diaries, chronicles and treatises of geological history are all narratives in this wider sense. Narratives can therefore be constructed using an ample variety of semiotic media: written or spoken language, visual images, gestures and acting, as well as a combination of these. Any semiotic construct, anything made of signs, can be said to be a text. Therefore, we can speak of many kinds of narrative texts: linguistic, theatrical, pictorial, filmic. Any representation involves a point of view, a selection, a perspective on the represented object, criteria of relevance, and, arguably, an implicit theory of reality. Narrative structuring may become most elaborate in literary texts, but narrativization is one of the commonest ways of applying an order and a perspective to experience.

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Susana Onega and Jose Angel Garcia Landa
 

Narratology : An Introduction

O naratiune este o reprezentare a unei serii de evenimente conectate intre ele prin inteles, timp si cauza. In acest sens larg filmele, piesele de teatru, comicsurile, romanele, jurnalele de actualitati, jurnalale personale, cronicile si tratatele de istorie geologica sunt toate naratiuni. Prin urmare naratiunile pot fi construite utilizand o varietate larga de mijloace semiotice : limbaj scris sau oral, imagini vizuale, gesturi si actiuni, precum si o combinatie a acestora. Orice constructie semiotica, orice e alcatuit din semne, poate fi considerat un text. Astfel ca putem vorbi de multe feluri de texte narative : lingvistic, dramatic, ilustrat, cinematografic. Orice reprezentare implica un punct de vedere, o perspectiva a obiectului reprezentat, criterii de relevanta si, dupa cum se poate demonstra, o teorie implicita a realitatii. Structura narativa poate deveni mai elaborata in cazul textelor literare, insa narativizarea este unul dintre cele mai comune mijloace de a aplica experientei o ordine si o perspectiva.