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    This document discusses different aspects of time and chronology in narratives. It outlines the differences between narrative time (how time is described in the story) and text time (how time unfolds for the reader). Narrative time can be linear or non-linear, while text time proceeds linearly as the reader experiences it. Key aspects of time discussed include order, duration, and frequency of events. Order refers to how events are sequenced, which can be chronological or disrupted by techniques like flashbacks and foreshadowing. Duration examines how long events take in the story versus how much text is devoted to them. Frequency looks at how many times events occur within the narrative or text.

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    This document discusses different aspects of time and chronology in narratives. It outlines the differences between narrative time (how time is described in the story) and text time (how time unfolds for the reader). Narrative time can be linear or non-linear, while text time proceeds linearly as the reader experiences it. Key aspects of time discussed include order, duration, and frequency of events. Order refers to how events are sequenced, which can be chronological or disrupted by techniques like flashbacks and foreshadowing. Duration examines how long events take in the story versus how much text is devoted to them. Frequency looks at how many times events occur within the narrative or text.

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    GERMB115 – Gregory Watson

    13 Oct.
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    TIME & CHRONOLOGY


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    The setting may contribute to the characterization!
     Lucy Wood: not encline to change the characters

    Narrative time vs txt- time?


    Time & chronology order the events vs chronological setting is linked to the plot summary
    (city, era, century...)
    Time is a factor of the plot & of the txt
     Element in the fictional world
     Element in the real world (= txt-time) - (when we are reading)

    Narrative time
    1. Time is described in the novel (i.e.: 5 minutes explained during 200 pages)
    2. Things may happen many times
    3. May be linear / non linear: presentation of the events
    4. May be multilinear: frequently appear in novels – things might be happened in the
    same time
    Txt-time
    1. Related to the actual reading
    2. Linear: the reading experience
    Aspects of time
     order, duration, frequency

    1. Order
     What happens?
     When does it happen?
     May be linear or non linear: PROLEPSIS
     Key words: 1st, 2nd, last, before...

     Relation between the succession of events vs their disposition in the txt


     Linear chronology vs DISRUPTED chronology: ANACHRONY (out of
    chronological time)
     ANALEPSIS: flashback – fragments or many pages – narrating or evoking
     PROLEPSIS: flashforward – events that will take place later or in advance (sentence
    or whole chapter)
     Prolepsis is a kind of FORESHADOWING
     Necessary to read: usually some kinds of indication till the end of the txt
     ≠ PURE PROLEPTICAL TXT: not necessary to re-read the txt to point out
    foreshadowing

    2. Duration
     How long?
     How much the text is devoted?
     Things speed up vs things slow down
     Experience of long reading: acceleration vs desceleration
     Key words: 1 hour, 1 day, 1 year...

     Relation about the duration of the events (narrative & length of the txt)
     CONSTANT PACE: plot-time = txt-ime
     ACCELERATION: plot-time vs txt-time
     ELLIPSIS: something is omitted (from 10 years old to 30 years old by not saying a
    word)
     SUMMARY: a certain period of time has been summarized (‘10 years later’)
     DECELERATION: plot-time ≠ txt-time
     DESCRIPTIVE PAUSE: great description
     NARRATIVE STRETCH: events take more place to read vs about take place in the
    reality
    3. Frequency
     How often do things happen?
     Once, several times?
     How is it described in the text?
     i.e.: dropping wallet every morning: fictional world / dropping wallet once: text time

     Number of times in which events are related


     SINGULATIVE FREQUENCY: telling once what happened once
     REPETITIVE FREQUENCY: sthg happened once but told several times in the txt
     ITERATIVE FREQUENCY: sthg happened several times but told once in the txt –
    helps to the characterization

    Chronology – txt structure


    Beginning
     AB INITIO: possibility of linear chronology
     IN MEDIA RES: possibility of analogical chronology due to the lacs of exposition
     IN ULTIMA RES: extended analogy with a succession of analepses

    In Lucy Wood: txt starts in media res

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