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Narratology and literary theory

The causal arrangement of story events

In narrative theory, the arrangement of story events into a connected structure, where incidents are bound together by cause and necessity rather than by mere sequence. Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BCE) named this arrangement mythos and held it to be the first principle and the soul of a tragedy, the ordering of incidents that gives a story its shape. Ricoeur's 1984 Time and Narrative recast this ordering as emplotment, the act that draws scattered events into a single intelligible whole, and Forster's 1927 Aspects of the Novel drew the familiar contrast between a story, which reports what happened next, and a plot, which reports why. The referent is a designed sequence of causally linked events in a narrative, and it has nothing to do with points drawn on a graph or a marked patch of ground.[1][2][3]

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One narrative's ordered structure of causally linked events
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Analysed by identifying incidents and the causal links that bind them, and by contrasting the plot's order against the raw chronology of events

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References

  1. Aristotle. (ca. 335 B.C.E./1996). Poetics (M. Heath, Trans.). Penguin Classics.
  2. Ricoeur, P. (1984). Time and narrative, Volume 1 (K. McLaughlin & D. Pellauer, Trans.). University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226713519.001.0001
  3. Forster, E. M. (1927). Aspects of the novel. Edward Arnold.

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