Interactive Narratives and Transmedia Storytelling by Kelly McErlean

Author:Kelly McErlean [Kelly McErlean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Digital Media
Publisher: Focal Press
Published: 2018-03-04T16:00:00+00:00

A PERSPECTIVAL APPROACH TO NARRATIVE

Narrative perspective positions the audience relative to the text. It creates a uniquely singular observational viewpoint with regard to characters, plot and story. With this approach to storytelling it is possible that the chronology can be represented out of order, enhancing its impact, yet still maintaining narrative coherence. While written linguistic text is linear, in a narrative text it is possible to speak of a ‘double linearity’, that of the text, the series of sentences, and that of the fabula, the series of events. Altering the sequential ordering can focus the reader’s attention on specific story elements, ‘to emphasise, to bring about aesthetic or psychological effects, to show various interpretations of an event, to indicate the subtle difference between expectation and realisation’ (Bal, 1985 p. 82).

The differences between the chronology of the fabula and the arrangement of the story are called chronological deviations or anachronies. The beginning of The Iliad is made up of five units numbered one to five. Chronologically the order is 4, 5, 3, 2 and 1. The anachronies can be presented – A4, B5, C3, D2, E1. Anachronies are separated from the reader’s timeline, ‘an event presented in anachrony is separated by an interval, large or small, from the “present”’. If we compare the time of the fabula to story time, their differences become clear, ‘a truly synchronic scene in which the duration of the fabula coincided completely with that of the presentation in the story, would be unreadable’ (Bal, 1985 p. 106).

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