Fictional Narrative, Factual Narrative

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4375488
AutoresGérard Genette, Nitsa Ben-Ari, Brian Mchale
Año1990
Volumen11
Número4
Páginas755
Fecha de publicación1990-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPoetics Today (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1773076
OpenAlexW2330434663
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas45
Referencias citadas1

If words have meaning (or even multiple meanings), then narratology-whether in its formal aspect, as the study of narrative discourse, or its thematic aspect, as the analysis of the sequences of events and actions related by this discourse-ought by rights to concern itself with stories of all kinds, fictional and otherwise. It is evident, however, that the two branches of narratology have until now devoted their attention almost exclusively to the behavior and objects of fictional narrative alone.' And this has not been a simple empirical choice, implying no prejudice toward whatever might, for the time being, have been explicitly excluded from consideration; rather it has involved the implicit privileging of fictional narrative, which has been hypostatized as narrative par excellence, or as the model for all narratives whatsoever. The few researchers-Paul Ricoeur, Hayden White, or Paul Veyne, for instance-who have shown any interest in the figures or intrigues of historical narrative, have done so from the perspective of some other discipline: philosophy of temporality, rhetoric, episte

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