Structuralism and Literary Criticism: Gerard Genette

Being a structuralist critic i will look to the linguistics and anthropology. Structuralist criticism aims at forming a poetics or the science of literature from a study of literary works. It also is an approach to analyzing the narrative material by examining the underlying invariant structure.

Being a structuralist critic i will try to find the novelty in the work of art.

Structuralism is the name given to Saussure’s approach to language as a system of relationship. But it is applied also to the study of philosophy, literature and other sciences of humanity.

Concepts of Genette's Narratology with examples.

order :- in this the storyline of the event is focused. how things happen and how it went to the end. 

 we can take the example of movie URI where the story starts from the beginning and then gradually thigs went on.

1. Terrorist attacked on URI Army Camp

2. A Team was built for strick

3. Training and secrecy of the team

4. Strick on the terrorist camp

5. returning to the nation.

Frequency :- The separation between an event and its narration allows several possibilities.

An event can occur once and be narrated once.

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An event can occur n times and be narrated once.

An event can occur once and be narrated n times

In the movie Dhamal the search of 10 Crore Rupees is narrated So many time and at the end they find the Bag of money.

An event can occur n times and be narrated n times 

Duration :-The separation between an event and its narration means that there is discourse time and Narrative time. in many Bollywood movies we see this kind of narrative style.

Voice :- Voice is concerned with who narrates, and from where. This can be split four ways. In the movie Bunty Aur Bubbly from the starting the story in narrated by the police inspector. Some times we see God is narating the story.

Mood :- narrative mood is dependent on the 'distance' and 'perspective' of the narrator, and like music, narrative mood has predominant patterns. It is related to voice.

Distance of the narrator changes with narrated speech, transposed speech and reported speech.

Perspective of the narrator is called focalization. Narratives can be non-focalized, internally focalized or externally focalized.

In the movie Bunty Aur Bubbly from the starting the story in narrated by the police inspector's perspective of catching them.