Narrative- The way stories are told, how meaning is constructed and communicated. Organises time and space into a very compressed form. Groups events into cause and effect. The narrative voice can vary. Whose story is being told and from whose perspective? Narrative plot or narative storyline.
Narrative story- Events as they happen in chronological order.
Narrative plot- Events as they are presented tp the audience by the author.
Structuralism- Structuralists concern themselves with how meaning is established and maintained. Meaning is attributed and is not already contained in the thing. Narratology is a branch of structuralism that studies the nature of 'story' rather than individual tales in isoloation. An example of a structuralists are Rowland Barthes and Tzvetan Todrov.
Tzvetan Todrov- Bulgarian structuralist linguist publishing influential work on narrative from the 1960's onwards. Todrov suggested that stories began with an equilibrium or status quo where any potentially opposing forces are in balance. This is disrupted by some event, setting in chain a of series or events. Problems are solved so that order can be restored to the world of fiction.
Beginning>Middle>End
Situation>problem>resolution
Equilibrium>Disruption>Resolution/New Equilibrium
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