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
 

Introducere in Naratologie

Naratiunea este reprezentarea semiotica a unei serii de evenimente conectate in mod logic din punct de vedere temporal si cauzal. Filme, piese de teatru, benzi desenate, romane, buletine de stiri, jurnale, cronici si tratate de istorie a geologiei sunt toate naratiuni in acest sens mai larg. Astfel, naratiunile pot fi construite folosind o ampla varietate de mijloace semiotice: limba scrisa sau vorbita, imagini vizuale, gesture si interpretari, precum si combinatii intre acestea. Orice constructie semiotica, orice este alcatuit din semne, poate fi definit drept text. Prin urmare putem vorbi despre multe tipuri de naratiuni: lingvistice, teatrale, picturale. Orice reprezentare cuprinde un punct de vedere, o selectie, o perspectiva a obiectului reprezentat, un criteriu de relevanta si, la libera interpretare, o teorie implicita a realitatii. Structura narativa se poate dezvolat mult intr-un text literar insa naratiunea este una dintre modalitatile cele mai comune de a atasa unei experiente o ordine si o perspective.