Narrative

NARRATIVE
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__Definition:__

• Referring back to oral traditions, narratives are based on a story, whose features include a plot, character(s), a setting, and a narrator. • There’s intertextuality in narratives. • Intertextuality is known as the direct or indirect referencing of other texts in a narrative.

__Theorists:__

Vladimir Propp . - He used the Russian Formalist approach to study the narrative structure - He mainly focused on analyzing Russian folk tales. He ignored narrative tone or mood, or any other extraneous detail and broke down Russian folk tales into their smallest narrative units, which he called “**functions**” or “**narratemes**” - By examining a hundred Russian folk tales, Propp concluded that there were exactly **thirty-one generic narratemes** - Prop believes that a cohesive story can be formed by connecting a series of any set of these thirty one functions in order - He doesn’t claim that //every// tale has these thirty-one narratemes, however, he found out that __all__ the tales he analyzed have 31 functions that **occur in the same sequence.**

__Examples:__
 * < Narremes: small plot themes/narrative units that go into plot grammar and allows the reader to instantly recognize the genre of the narrative.

E.g.: Fairytales. In fairytales, which are a type of NARRATIVE, they take place in an indeterminate time frame (once upon a time), imaginary creatures (wolf in a grandmother’s outfit), battle of good vs. evil, setting is of real and supernatural settings, hero that is always tested that must overcome challenges and after the test the story ends in happily ever after.

In Cinderella for example, the following narreemes are noted as examples: Good vs evil - stepmother vs. cinderella happy ending - gets married to the prince evil stepsisters, struggle of main character. ||

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