SUSANA ONEGA and JOSE ANGEL GARCIA LANDA

Narratology: an Introduction 


A narrative is the semiotic representation of a series of events meaningfully connected in a temporal and causal way. Films, plays, comic strips, novels, newsreels, diaries, chronicles and treatises of geological history are all narratives in this wider sense. Narratives can therefore be constructed using an ample variety of semiotic media: written or spoken language, visual images, gestures and acting, as well as a combination of these. Any semiotic construct, anything made of signs, can be said to be a text. Therefore, we can speak of many kinds of narrative texts: linguistic, theatrical, pictorial, filmic. Any representation involves a point of view, a selection, a perspective on the represented object, criteria of relevance, and, arguably, an implicit theory of reality. Narrative structuring may become most elaborate in literary texts, but narrativization is one of the commonest ways of applying an order and a perspective to experience.

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Susana Onega and Jose Angel Garcia Landa
 

Naratologia: Introducere

Naratiunea este reprezentarea semiotica a unei serii de actiuni legate prin inteles intr-un mod temporal si cauzal. Filmele, piesele de teatru, benzile desenate, jurnalele de actualitati, romanele, jurnalele personale, cronicile si tratatele de istorie geologica sunt toate naratiuni intr-o acceptiune mai larga. Prin urmare, naratiunile pot fi create folosind o varietate ampla de medii semiotice: limbaj scris sau vorbit, imagini vizuale, gestica si interpretare, precum si orice combinatie a acestora. Orice constructie semiotica, orice lucru creat din semne poate fi numit text. In consecinta, putem vorbi despre despre mai multe tipuri de texte narative: lingvistice, de teatru, grafice, cinematografice. Orice reprezentare implica un punct de vedere, o selectie, o perspectiva asupra unui obiect reprezentat, criterii de relevanta si, discutabil, o teorie implicita a realitatii. Structurarea naratiunii poate fi extrem de elaborata in texte literare, dar transformarea intr-o forma narativa este una dintre cele mai comune modalitati de a conferi experientei organizare si viziune.