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Plot
The events
Discourse
The Message
Focalisation
The perspective
Diegesis
The world
Narration
The telling
Narrator
The teller
Structure
The order
& the
chronology
Text
The container
Characters
The players
Setting
The places
The equilibrium theory of Todorov
The universaility of story, story telling, & the structural elements of narrative
Morphology
of the
Folktale
The death of the author & the implications of Structuralism
BARTHES - The Death of the Author
If all narratives are formed out of the mass of pre-existing elements that already exist in the culture of a society then the writers of texts do not author them. The author is an illusion the writer is the reality. The writer is a part of the system of production of the text, which is a social function. The 'author' is an ideologial smoke screen which obscures the role of culture in the social production of the text.
FOUCAULT - What is an Author?
As there is no such thing as an 'author' why is the concept such a common part of our society? Foucault attached the problem of power to the 'author' in order to examine the social role of 'the author function'.
Binary
Opposites
equilibirum
The elements that go to make up narratives are universal and are found in all human socieies.
All narratives consist of pre-existing elements re-shuffled or re-worked into new forms & patterns.
The character roles & plot elements of Propp
The Binary Opposites of Levi-Strauss