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NARRATIVE

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

STORY

Structuralism

The equilibrium theory of Todorov

The universaility of story, story telling, & the structural elements of narrative

one

Morphology

of the

Folktale

two

three

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'.

  • The 'Author Function' is a part of the disciplinary system of 'property rights' in capitalism.
  • The 'Author Function' is uneven in application (no one cares about the 'author' of the periodic table or the newswires).
  • The 'Author Function' is another narrative structure and could be seen as being in the same field as the narrator or focus.

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

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