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
 

Naratologie: Introducere

Un text narativ este o reprezentare semiotica a unei serii de evenimente cu inteles legate intre ele temporal si cauzal. Filme, piese de teatru, benzi desenate, romane, buletine de stiri, jurnale, cronici si tratate de istorie a lumii, toate sunt texte narrative in adevaratul sens al cuvantului. Prin urmare, textele narrative pot fi construite folosind o gama larga de surse din media in format semiotic: limba scrisa sau vorbita, imagini vizuale, gesturi si actiuni, la fel si combinatiile dintre ele. Orice constructie semoitica, orice bazat pe semne, poate fi numit text. Asadar, putem vorbi de mai multe tipuri de texte narrative: lingvistice, de teatru, grafice, de film. Orice reprezentare implica un punct de vedere, o selectie, o perspective a obiectului reprezentat, criterii de relevanta, si, discutabil, o teorie implicita a realitatii. Structurile narrative pot fi foarte elaborate in textele literare, insa narativizarea este una din cele mai des intalnite metode de aplicare a unei ordini si perspective, experientei.