Genette Gérard. Narrative Discource. An Essay in Method

Translated by Jane E. Lewin; foreword by Jonathan Culler. — New York: Cornell University Press, 1983. — 285 p.Gerard Genette’s Narrative Discourse is invaluable because it fills this need for a systematic theory of narrative. As the most thorough attempt we have to identify, name, and illustrate the basic constituents and techniques of narrative, it will prove indispensable to students of fiction, who not only will find in it terms to describe what they have perceived in novels but will also be alerted to the existence of fictional devices which they had previously failed to notice and whose implications they had never been able to consider. Every reader of Genette will find that he becomes a more acute and perceptive analyst of fiction than before.Foreword by Jonathan Culler.
Translator’s Preface.
Preface.Introduction.
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Duration.
Frequency.
Mood.
Voice.Afterword.
Bibliography.
Index.