Practice question · Put in order
Arrange the steps for analysing the order of a narrative.
- Map each unit's discourse position onto its story position
- Number the units in the order the text presents them
- Segment the text into narrative units
- Reconstruct the chronological order of the events
- Classify each departure as analepsis or prolepsis, with reach and extent
Hints
- You cannot compare two orders until you have both.
- Classification is the last step, not the first.
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- Segment the text into narrative units
- Number the units in the order the text presents them
- Reconstruct the chronological order of the events
- Map each unit's discourse position onto its story position
- Classify each departure as analepsis or prolepsis, with reach and extent
Why
Doing it in this order stops you naming the flashbacks you happened to notice and calling that an analysis. The map of positions comes first; which departures matter is a judgement made afterwards, on evidence.
Practise Narratology I. Story, Discourse and Order
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