Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics

Beyond Chronicity: Evaluation and Temporality in Spanish-Speaking Children's Personal Narratives

“…Contemporary poetics (Genette, 1980;Rimmon-Kenan, 1983), episodic analysis (Peterson & McCabe, 1983), and highpoint analysis (Peterson & McCabe, 1983) are the three sources used in this chapter to analyze the following dimensions of narrative:…”

“…-Prolepsis (i.e., foreshadowing or anticipation) is the narration of an event at a point in the text before earlier events have been told (Rimmon-Kenan, 1983). 2.…”

“…As Rimmon-Kenan (1983) states, instead of being directly attributed to the narrator, these analepses and prolepses filtered. An example of a partial departure is the following fragment by an Andean 5-year-old boy: "I got sick on Sunday and my father called the doctor and the nurse said that the doctor went on a trip" (Alonso, 5;1 years).…”

“…In summary, partial departures are not real analepses attributable to the narrator (Rimmon-Kenan, 1983) and, because the boundaries of chronicity have not really been surpassed, narratives with partial departures can still be described as following a sequential organization. Therefore, the core of the comparison along the temporal dimension entails the exploration of full departures.…”

“…In contrast to the emphasis on sequentiality characteristic of the study of children's narratives, in the field of contemporary poetics, departures from the timeline are conceived of as crucial in textual analysis (Genette, 1980;Rimmon-Kenan, 1983). Widely known narrative theories advanced by Genette and Rimmon-Kenan highlight that literary narratives rarely follow a chronological pattern and most often deviate from it.…”