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.

Irina Constantinescu

Susana Onega and Jose Angel Garcia Landa
 

Naratologia: o introducere

O naratiune este reprezentarea semiotica a unor eventimente legate intre ele in mod logic din punct de vedere temporal şi cauzal. Filmele, piesele de teatru, benzile desenate, romanele, buletinele de stiri, jurnalele, cronicile sau tratatele de istorie geologica sunt toate naratiuni în acest sens larg. Aşadar, naratiunile pot fi construite folosind o varietate de mijloace semiotice: limbaj scris sau oral, imagini vizuale, gestica şi joc scenic, precum şi o combinatie între acestea. Orice constructie semiotica, orice lucru alcatuit din semne poate fi numit text. Astfel, putem vorbi de diverse tipuri de texte narative: lingvistice, teatrale, pictoriale, filmice. Orice reprezentare implica un punct de vedere, o selectie, o viziune asupra obiectului reprezentat, criterii de relevanta si o teorie implicita asupra realitatii. Structura narativa poate fi mai elaborata in textele literare, dar narativizarea este una din cele mai uzuale moduri de a aplica o ordine si o perspectiva asupra realitatii.