Feb
22
Narrative Elements
February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Took the stuff from the whiteboard (photos below) and tried to organize it, and add in some from Linde — labels and groupings are tentative. Some things are repeated because…they can fit more than one place.
Comments and revisions encouraged.
CONTEXT
Indexicality
System of coherence (Linde)
Intertextuality
Background knowledge (expected/assumed/required)
Cultural setting
Genre
Frame
Audience – intended, actual
Historical/cultural situatedness
AUTHORIAL CONTEXT
Ideology
Point/purpose
Persona
AUTHOR-AUDIENCE INTERACTION
Intended/expected audience — the audience addressed
Point/intention/author’s desired effect
Coherence system
Audience’s cultural/historical/etc situatedness
NARRATIVE ELEMENTS
Causality/contiguity/contingency
Tone, voice
Coherence
Structure
Layers
Allegory, parable
Discursiveness/evocativeness
NARRATIVE COMPONENTS
Abstract
Plot, story
Timeline
Characters (and their sympatheticness, complexity, realism)
Setting
Structure
Point of view
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