Scènes, scripts, séquences et épisodes : quatre aspects de la segmentation méso-textuelle des récits
The composition of narrative texts of a certain length and complexity has always been a challenge for reading, for analysis, and for teaching. The fact that a textual whole — defined by its peritextual boundaries — is itself made up of textual subunits is central to the work of poeticians on composi...
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Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Récits Cultures Et Sociétés
2025-07-01
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| Series: | Cahiers de Narratologie |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/narratologie/16652 |
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| Summary: | The composition of narrative texts of a certain length and complexity has always been a challenge for reading, for analysis, and for teaching. The fact that a textual whole — defined by its peritextual boundaries — is itself made up of textual subunits is central to the work of poeticians on composition and chaptering, but also to researchers working on the transmedia genre of “stories to be continued” or “suspended narratives” and to work on textual sequences. By taking stock of the close and often confused notions of scenes and scripts, then of sequences, this article questions the interest, for research as well as for teaching, of redefining and putting forward the notion of episode and episodic analysis, in the double sense of its use: narrative sub-unit (unfolding in a circumscribed time and space of a unified block of actions and/or words and thoughts of one or more characters) and material unit of publication/edition (story to follow) and/or chaptering (subtitled and/or numbered chapter) thus isolating a narrative sub-unit, a fragment of the diegesis, within a larger encompassing narrative. |
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| ISSN: | 0993-8516 1765-307X |