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: Introduction

O naratiune este o reprezentare a unor serii de evenimente intelese, associate din punct de vedere temporal si causal. Filmele, piesele de teatru, articolele comice, romanele, jurnalele de stiri, cronicile, precum si tratatele de istorie geologica sunt naratiuni in sensul larg al cuvantului. Astfel, naratiunile pot fi realizate folosind o mare varietate de semiotice din mass media: limbajul scris sau vorbit, imaginile vizuale, gesturile si actele, precum si o combinatie a acestora. Orice constructie semiotica , orice altceva realizat din semne,poate fi numit text. Totusi, putem vorbi despre mai multe tipuri de texte narative: lingvistic, teatral, pictural, cinematografic. Orice reprezentare implica un punct de vedere, o selectie, o perspectiva asupra obiectului reprezentat, criteriu de relevant si, dupa cum se poate demonstra, o implicita teorie a realitatii. Structura narativa poate deveni mult elaborata in textele literare, dar naratiunea este unul dintre cele mai comune moduri de a aplica un statut si o perspective pentru experienta.