敘事學

敘事學係一個專門研究故仔－嘅人文社會科學領域：人文社科研究人類嘅文化同社會，而故仔呢樣嘢喺人類文化當中無處不在，好多嘅文化產物－包括用嚟傳承先人智慧嘅口傳故仔、好多嘅文學作品、漫畫、電影、同好多嘅舞台藝術－當中都有故仔喺入面，所以故仔嘅元素同結構以及「人類點樣傳達故仔」等課題對於了解人類文化以至社會嚟講相當重要。

敘事學正正就係研究呢啲問題嘅一個領域。敘事學家會由文學同電影等嘅文化產物嗰度觀察人類作嘅故仔，並且嘗試搵出故仔當中存在嘅普遍規律同諗吓呢啲規律對了解人類嚟講俾到乜嘢啟示。

基本定義 
敘事學研究故仔，所以首先要對「故仔」呢個詞有明確嘅定義。一般嚟講，故仔喺敘事學上係指一連串彼此之間有關連嘅事件，「故仔」指嘅係啲事件本身，而唔係表達串事件嘅媒介－一串用嚟講故仔嘅文字同個故仔本身係兩樣嘢。

對於「故仔」嘅定義，有敘事學家噉樣講：

連串性同事件之間嘅關連性一般俾敘事學界認為係故仔必要有嘅性質：想像一串文字，敘述咗一柞事件，柞事件彼此之間有關連、但完全唔知邊件先邊件後，讀者唔會能夠慢慢噉感受事態發展或者變化；而如果有一串文字，敘述一柞有明顯先後，但彼此之間完全冇因果關係、唔啦更嘅事件，讀者一樣會感受唔到事態發展或者變化－透過感知一柞事件嚟想像事態發展或者變化係故仔嘅核心特徵。

故仔
文學
創意寫作

Phelan, James. Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007.
Phelan, James. Living To Tell About It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.
Phelan, James. Narrative as Rhetoric: Technique, Audiences, Ethics, Ideology. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1996.
Phelan, James. Reading People, Reading Plots: Character, Progression, and the Interpretation of Narrative. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Phelan, James, ed. Reading Narrative: Form, Ethics, Ideology. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1989.
Phelan, James, David Herman, and Brian McHale, eds. Teaching Narrative Theory. New York: MLA Publications, 2010.
Phelan, James, and Peter J. Rabinowitz. A Companion to Narrative Theory. Malden: Blackwell, 2005.
Phelan, James, and Peter J. Rabinowitz. Understanding Narrative. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1994.

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"Musical Narratology" by William Echard, review of A Theory of Musical Semiotics by Eero Tarasti, foreword by Thomas A. Sebeok.
The Narrative Act: Wittgenstein and Narratology by Henry McDonald.
Story-Systems.
Narrative theory bibliography (A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology).
Narratology: A Guide to the Theory of Narrative by Manfred Jahn.
Five Analyses of the Narrative "I First Got Paid".
The Living Handbook of Narratology.
Narratology: The Study of Story Structure.