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Narrative Discourse

Gérard Genette

1979285 pagesabout 4–7 hours
1979
first published
  • 1979Cornell University Press · 288 pagesISBN 9780801492594
  • 1980Cornell University Press · 285 pages · ENGISBN 9780801410994
  • 1986Basil Blackwell · 285 pages · ENGISBN 9780631152965
  • Blackwell Publishers · 286 pagesISBN 9780631109815

Genette uses Proust's Remembrance of Things Past as a work to identify and name the basic constituents and techniques of narrative. Genette illustrates the examples by referring to other literary works. His systemic theory of narrative deals with the structure of fiction, including fictional devices that go unnoticed and whose implications fulfill the Western narrative tradition.

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