Sister of My Heart: A Study in Narratology

Pages:8-10
Manjeet (Assistant Professor of English, Adarsh Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Bhiwani, Haryana)

Narratology first coined by Tzvetan Todorov in 1969, marked the acceleration of structuralism story of narrative with virtually every part of the story analyzed for it, effects within the text Gennet (1980). Narratology in literary analysis continues to be a fruitful field in to the first decade of twenty first century. Narratological analysis examines only the structures of the given text and the combination of the different layers composing the structure. The three dimensional analysis of narrative within the context of narrative relationship is fundamental aspect of Gennet’s narrative model. Gennet’s distinction between the layers of narrative is in fact, the refinement of the separation between fabula, the ‘raw material’ that is not shaped in the hands of writer and suzette, the artistic completion of the fabula made by the Russian Formalist. Compared to the previous theories in the field of narrative, the model developed by Gerard Gennet in Narrative Discourse is more systematic and comprehensive. Gennet’s theory and methodology is an elaboration on the specific relation possible among the elements of narrative, story and narrating. These interactive relations operate according to three main categories; tense, mood and voice (genette-32). Moreover, Gennet analyses the categories which have not been discussed adequately before, like frequency of events within the text of time, and he differentiates the notion of narration from focalization of his narratological theory.