Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Narrative theory

The main narrative theories include:

  • Props theory- Character roles
  • Barthes theory- Action, Enigma and Symbolic codes
  • Todorov theory- See below
  • Levi Strauss theory- Binary oppositions

Todorov's theory is explaining in the image below:      



There are also different styles of narrative theories such as\ a linear structure, open structure, closed structure and circular structure. The image below reflects these structures in more detail:





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