There has been no comprehensive survey. Gerard Genette's Narrative Discourse is invaluable because it fills this need for a systematic theory of narrative. As ...
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Genette uses Proust's Remembrance of Things Past as a work to identify and name the basic constituents and techniques of narrative.
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Gerard Genette, a critic of international stature, here builds a systematic theory of narrative upon an analysis of the writings of Marcel Proust, particularly Remembrance of Things Past. ... Google Books
Originally published: 1980
Author: Gérard Genette
Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. By GERARD GENETTE. Translated by Jane E. Lewin. Foreword by Jonathan. Culler. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980 ...
Adopting what is essentially a structuralist approach, the author identifies and names the basic constituents and techniques of narrative and illustrates them ...