Narratology
study of narrative structures
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Narratology is the study and theory of narratives.
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Quotes
edit- Here she drew forth a small pocket-book, took from it a card and a pencil and, after meditating a moment, wrote a few words. It is our privilege to look over her shoulder, and if we exercise it we may read the brief query: [...].
- Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady, XLIV
- The hero [of a narrative] must be male, regardless of the gender of the text-image, because the obstacle, whatever its personification, is morphologically female....The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences. Female is what is not susceptible to transformation, to life or death; she (it) is an element of plot-space, a topos, a resistance, matrix and matter. And remember, the universe should always be considered a whole-sort-of-general-mish-mash.
- Lauretis, Teresa de (1984). "Desire in Narrative", Alice Doesn't, p. 118-119. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253203163.
- Narrating incredible things as though they were real—old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible—the new.
- Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living, 1943-11-11
