Narrative Research Assignment

Anna De Azevedo12C

SpeechWriting SongFilm TelevisionVideo gamesPhotography Theatre

That describes a sequence of fictional or non-fictional events.

Tzvetan TodorovBulgaria, 1939

Literary structuralism.

Suggests most narrative start with a state of equilibrium in which life is normal and protagonists happy.

Todorov gives examples of:

-Dreams

-Drugs

-Illusions of the senses

-Madness

As things that could explain a fantastic/supernatural event.

Vladimir Propp17 April 1895-1970

Russian

Narrative Structure

Analyzed the basic plot components of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest complex narrative elements.

Sentence structures were broken down into:

-Analyzable elements

-Morphemes

Breaking down a large number of Russian folk tales into their smallest narrative units, or narratives, Propp was able to arrive at a typology of narrative structures.

Claude Levi-Strauss

28 November 1908-2009

French

Anthropologist and Ethnologist

Examined how stories automatically reflect the values, beliefs and myths of a culture.

His research has been adapted by media theorists to display underlying themes and symbolic oppositions in media texts.

Sense of a balance

Sense of unbalance

Sense of a new balance

Sam Witwicky living as usual.

Evil Decepticon, starts the attack with his evil power.

The evil decepticon gets kill by the heroic Autobot.

Binary OppositionsA conflict between two qualities or terms.

A binary opposition is a pair of opposites.

In structuralism, a binary opposition is seen as a fundamental organizer of human philosophy, culture, and language.

Black is used as a sign of: -Darkness –Danger -EvilWhite is used as sign of: -Purity -Goodness

Young Old Masculinity Femininity Good Evil

FlashbackIs a scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point

Flash-forwardIs a scene that takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story.

Character

The aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.

Titles: The Incredible Hulk

Names: Edward Norton

Characters: Bruce Banner

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