Narratology

stories presented through performance

• diegesis

• mimesis

• narratology

• plot

the phenomenon of the narrator

• the voice we literally hear in oral storytelling and figuratively hear in written texts

• introduces a subjective element to the perception of the story

• mimesis

• first-person narration

narrative visibility

• narrative mode

• authorial narrator

• personalised narrator

• involvement

Involvement

• Narrators may also be positioned at a greater or lesser distance from the story world.

• narrative mode

• autobiography

• autodiegetic narrator

Reliability

• narrative mode

• involved narrator

• authorial narrator

• mimesis

frame narratives

• story within a story

• One thousand and one nights

• Decameron

• Lolita

metafiction

• a refl ection within a story on the fi ctional status of the story itself

• Truman show

• drama

• poetry

anachrony

• difference between narrative time and story time

• mimesis

• poetic device

• Free indirect discourse

Duration

• narrative time

• narrative rhythm

• frequency

• sequencing

Frequency

• iterative mode of narration

• repetition within narrative

• setting up a feeling of a routine

• duration of an acction