Narratological approach
Narratological approach → science of narrative (anything that has a story) Fiction – short stories and novels → we have mediation (someone who tells the story) - this is **diegetic** – narrators in films and plays. → mimetic genres → diegetic genres (fiction) Wayne Booth – *Rhetoric of Fiction* (retorica romanului) → who tells the story? → who sees? => point of view 2 larger groups of possibility: → 1st person point of view → 3rd person point of view First Person Point Of View Who tells the story? – we can find out right from the 1st page of the book. The author is not present in the book – the narrator is. “I was looking through the fence” => there is one “I” in the story => omniscient author = a person, a human being, enters the mind of each and every character which he presents. Omniscient narrator = unrealistic, characteristic; is not possible in real life except God – behaves like God, Godlike abilities – pretends to be checked, we can never doubt of what the narrator is ...