Modern narrative strategies in Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby
Other Title(s)
استراتيجيات السرد القصصي الحديث في رواية فيتزجيرالد جاتسبي العظيم
Dissertant
Thesis advisor
Comitee Members
al-Shitawi, Mahmud
al-Sadun, Sabbar Sultan
University
Middle East University
Faculty
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Department
Department of English
University Country
Jordan
Degree
Master
Degree Date
2015
English Abstract
This thesis deals with modern narrative theory with special concentration on Gerard Genette’s contribution to narratology through his original views on three dimensions of narrative technique, namely text, focalization, and narration.
Part of its aim is to explore the main differences between traditional and modern/contemporary narrative theory with a view to applying the main principles of Gerard Genette’s narrative theory to the discussion and critical analysis of F.
Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby.
The major dimensions of Genette’s model of narrative analysis include such concepts and narrative devices as story-time and text-time resulting in the concepts of analepsis (flashback) and prolepsis (foreshadowing), duration which focuses on the two narrative devices of acceleration and deceleration as well as omission and descriptive pause.
Closely connected with these devices are those of scene and summary, two narrative devices frequently used in traditional narrative terminology.
Another dimension which receives concentration in this thesis is focalization as it is one of the basic principles of Genette’s theory that has led to making a clear distinction between two related but different activities: who speaks? And who sees? Focalization has been utilized in analyzing Fitzgerald’s best known novel The Great Gatsby which partially derives its greatness and originality from its use of new narrative techniques.
The discussion includes a variety of related issues such as types of focalization and facets of focalization, including the cognitive, the psychological and the ideological components.
The dimension of narration has also been investigated in theory and practice by applying it to the critical analysis of narrator and narrative technique in The Great Gatsby.
Such questions as the relations between narration and story, different types of narrative levels such as "extradiegetic", “intradiegetic,” “hypodiegetic” and “hypo-hypodiegetic” have also been explored and applied to the analysis of the narrative text.
Other questions related to this dimension such as types of narrators and their reliability have also been examined both in theory and in practice.
The thesis has revealed that by applying modern/contemporary narratology to the analysis of works of fiction both our understanding of the text and our appreciation of its narrative techniques will be greatly enhanced and consolidated.
Main Subjects
Languages & Comparative Literature
No. of Pages
64
Table of Contents
Table of contents.
Abstract.
Abstract in Arabic.
Chapter One : Introduction.
Chapter Two : Review of related literature.
Chapter Three : Methods and procedure.
Chapter Four : The analysis of the Great Gatsby.
Chapter Five : Conclusion and recommendations.
References.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Abd Allah, Rawan Marwan. (2015). Modern narrative strategies in Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Middle East University, Jordan
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Abd Allah, Rawan Marwan. Modern narrative strategies in Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Middle East University. (2015).
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Abd Allah, Rawan Marwan. (2015). Modern narrative strategies in Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Middle East University, Jordan
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-692243
Language
English
Data Type
Arab Theses
Record ID
BIM-692243
