The Cambridge Companion to Narrative

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• The distinction between plot and story, like that between narration and story, is an implicit presumption that a story is separate from its rendering. Just as a story can be narrated in different ways, so it can be plotted in different ways. This analyticallly powerful distinction between story and its representation is, arguably, the founding insight of the field of narratology. If story, plot, and narration can be called the three principle components of the overarching category "narrative," the distinction between story and how it is communicated is so fundamental that scholars of narrative often bring narration and plot together under a single heading, narrative discourse. [...] But nothing is tidy in the study of narrative. This is largely because narrative happens in mind, with its e... (查看原文)

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