ENGL120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Vladimir Propp, Mieke Bal, Tzvetan Todorov

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: English Literature
• Course: ENGL120
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Plot; suspense; doyle"s the adventure of the speckled band . Field primarily interested in the narrative structure. Study narratives in regard to form and function. Analyse texts to find the rules of narrative. Interested in elements that form a narrative and how this achieves particular effects. M management of time in discourse. Essentially component of character events are structured through relationships of cause and effect. It is through temporal sequences that plot develops scheme. Plot: peter brookes: plot shapes a story ascribed a narrative form to describe characters, events and plot which is conveyed. Constitutes an important k and form of story. Functions to position readers to make meaning in narrative texts. Sees plots as dynamic force in the text: how stories come to be ordered in significant form . Plot, let us say in preliminary definition, is the logic and dynamic of narrative, and narrative itself is a form of understanding and explanation .