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narratology, n. Lit. Theory.|ˌnærəˈtɒlədʒɪ|
[ad. Fr. narratologie (T. Todorov Grammaire du Décaméron, 1969, i. 10).]
The study of the structure and function of narrative, esp. as analogous to linguistic structure; the examination and classification of the traditional themes, conventions, and symbols of the narrated story.
1974G. Prince in Diacritics IV. iii. 2/2 The semiotic study of (verbal) narrative..has increasingly refused to be called ‘narrative semiology’... It has kept or acquired other names..from the now banal ‘structural analysis of narrative’ and ‘grammar of stories’ to the newer, more elegant, and more fashionable ‘narratology’ and ‘narrativics’. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Aug. 879/3 Narratology, or the study of narrative, has so far been the victim of its own youthful exuberance. 1978Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 1977 XXII. 219 The complete title of the book may be taken to include, or at least intersect, those fields commonly known as ‘text linguistics’, ‘folkloristics’ and ‘narratology’. 1983T. Eagleton Lit. Theory iii. 103 It [sc. structuralism] created a whole new science—narratology. 1988Cohan & Shires Telling Stories iii. 53 In breaking down narrative into story and narration, we are following a method of analysis called narratology. Narratology studies narrative as a general category of texts which can be classified according to poetics, the set of identifiable conventions that make a given text recognizable as a narrated story.
Hence narratoˈlogical a.; narraˈtologist n.
1974Diacritics IV. iii. 5/1 In S/Z, Barthes had relegated the activities of positivistic narratologists to the prehistory of semiotics. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Aug. 879/3 Signor Segre traces the development of narratological speculation. 1984Ibid. 3 Feb. 105/2 One of the best things that Greimas has done is partly to stabilize the terminology to which narratologists resort. 1987R. Alter in Alter & Kermode Lit. Guide to Bible 26 At the beginning of his narratological study of Deuteronomy. |