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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Main Author: Jean-Michel Adam
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Language:fra
Published: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Récits Cultures Et Sociétés 2025-07-01
Series:Cahiers de Narratologie
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/narratologie/16652
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description 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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Scènes, scripts, séquences et épisodes : quatre aspects de la segmentation méso-textuelle des récits
Cahiers de Narratologie
story
Episodes
narrative genres
meso-textual analysis plan
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scripts
title Scènes, scripts, séquences et épisodes : quatre aspects de la segmentation méso-textuelle des récits
title_full Scènes, scripts, séquences et épisodes : quatre aspects de la segmentation méso-textuelle des récits
title_fullStr Scènes, scripts, séquences et épisodes : quatre aspects de la segmentation méso-textuelle des récits
title_full_unstemmed Scènes, scripts, séquences et épisodes : quatre aspects de la segmentation méso-textuelle des récits
title_short Scènes, scripts, séquences et épisodes : quatre aspects de la segmentation méso-textuelle des récits
title_sort scenes scripts sequences et episodes quatre aspects de la segmentation meso textuelle des recits
topic story
Episodes
narrative genres
meso-textual analysis plan
scenes
scripts
url https://journals.openedition.org/narratologie/16652
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