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Gérard Genette (French pronunciation: [ʒeʁaʁ ʒənɛt]; 7 June 1930 – 11 May 2018) was a French literary theorist, associated in particular with the structuralist movement and with figures such as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, from whom he adapted the concept of bricolage.
Focalisation is a term coined by the French narrative theorist Gérard Genette. [1] It refers to the perspective through which a narrative is presented. Genette focuses on the interplay between three forms of focalization and the distinction between heterodiegetic and homodiegetic narrators.
In narratology (and specifically in the theories of Gérard Genette), [10] a paradoxical transgression of the boundaries between narrative levels or logically distinct worlds is also called metalepsis. Perhaps the most common example of metalepsis in narrative occurs when a narrator intrudes upon another world being narrated.
Narratology is the study of narrative and narrative structure and the ways that these affect human perception. [1] The term is an anglicisation of French narratologie , coined by Tzvetan Todorov ( Grammaire du Décaméron , 1969). [ 2 ]
As a form of description, narrating inevitably requires sequencing in time. The direction of time is not a trivial thing, but the backbone of the information contained in the narrative itself. One has to bear in mind the fundamental concepts of Genette's narratology, mainly the concept of ‘order.’ This distinguishes three entities: story ...
Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree is a 1982 book by French literary theorist Gérard Genette.Over the years, the book's methodological proposals have been confirmed as effective operational definitions, and have been widely adopted in literary criticism terminology.
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Transtextuality is defined as the "textual transcendence of the text".According to Gérard Genette transtextuality is "all that sets the text in relationship, whether obvious or concealed, with other texts" and it "covers all aspects of a particular text". [1]