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imitation/copy
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Aristotle (Poetics)
Model of reality
Model of reality
Message
Writer
encodes
Message
Semantic level
Semantic level
Syntactic level
Syntactic level
Graphological level
Graphological level
Text
Reader
decodes
(2) The king died, and then the queen died of grief.
(3) The queen died, no one knew why, until it was discovered
that it was through grief at the death of the king.
Booth does not see the author as the only person involved in creating
a work of fiction. Instead, he sees this creation as comprised of both
author and reader with a narrator to guide the reader through the
maze of the text. For Booth, the reader and the author cannot be
separated because of the power both author and reader exert on the
text and the power the text exerts on the author and reader. Booth
argues that the author constructs an implied author and a
narrator, both of whom connect to a specific reading community.
implied author (the authors official scribe or second self) whom
the reader invents by deduction from the attitudes articulated in the
fiction.
The implied author chooses, consciously or unconsciously, what we
read; we infer him as an ideal, literary, created version of the
real man; he is the sum of his own choices in:
style (providing insight into the authors norms);
tone (through which the author implies his judgment of the material
presented);
technique (the artistry of the author).
Fabula/Sjuzet:
Propp organizes the quest of his heroes into six main stages
(preparation; complication; transference; struggle; return;
recognition) and thirty one different functions.
Propp also identifies several spheres of action (the evil doer/the
villain; the giver donor, provider; helper/assistant; the
emperor and his daughter; the sender/dispatcher; the hero
seeker or victim; the false hero) with three possible situations:
1.The sphere of action corresponds exactly to one character.
2.One character functions in several spheres of action.
3.One sphere of action includes several characters (one role may
employ more than one hero).
Histoire/
Story
Characters
Setting
Narrative
Rcit/ Discourse
subject/object;
sender/receiver;