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 e reprezentarea semiotica a unei serii de evenimente legate in mod semnificativ intr-un mod temporal si cauzal. Filmele, piesele de tatru, desenele comice, romanele, jurnalele de stiri, jurnalele, cronicile si tratatele de istorie geologica sunt toate naratiuni in sens larg. Naratiunea poate fi asadar construita folosind o ampla varietate de a mediei semiotice: limba scrisa sau vorbita, imagini vizuale, gesturi si reprezentari, precum si combinatiile dintre ele. Orice constructie semiotica, orice lucru alcatuit din semne poate fi considerat un text. Asadar, putem vorbi de mai multe tipuri de texte narative: lingvistice, dramatice, pictoriale, scenarii. Fiecare reprezentare implica un punct de vedere, o selectie, o perspectiva asupra obiectului reprezentat, a criteriilor de relevanta, si, discutabil, a unei implicite teorii a realitatii. Structurarea textuluii narativ poate deveni cea mai elaborata in textele literare, dar narativizarea e una din cele mai comune metode de aplicare a ordinii si perspectivei in experienta.