Narrative Discourse
Subtitle: An Essay in Method
By: Gérard Genette ; translated by Jane E. Lewin ; foreword by Jonathan Culler.
Contributors: Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
Publisher: Basil Blackwell
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Proust, Marcel, -- 1871-1922 -- Criticism and interpretation; Narration (Rhetoric); Fiction -- Technique
Work titles: Figures, essais. III. Discours du récit. English
Description: 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.
Notes: Translation of Discours du récit, a portion of the 3d vol. of the author's Figures, essais.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 269-273.