Maria Poulaki

SELF-REFLEXIVITY, DESCRIPTION, AND THE BOUNDARIES OF NARRATIVE CINEMA

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  • This article proposes a bridge between an early and a late work of Gérard Genette
  • namely his article Frontières du récit and his collection of essays Fiction et diction. In Frontières du récit
  • Genette points at two instances of â€
  • œ
  • anti-narrativeâ€
  • 
  • intrusion into narrative. The first is what Emile Benveniste called â€
  • œ
  • discourse
  • â€
  • 
  • meaning the self-reflexive comments of the narrator
  • and the second is description
  • a mode of utterance that when found in a narrative
  • temporarily withholds the flow of the story. In the context of the proliferation of these instances in current narrative films and in the light of Genetteâ€
  • s observations in Fiction et diction
  • I will suggest that these anti-narrative elements provide us with a chance to fundamentally reconsider the notion of narrative and to configure a paradigm shift in narratology
  • which Genette had already foreseen in his early work

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