‘disnarrated’ –
those passages in a narrative that consider what did not or does not take
place. (Prince 1988: 1) – 221
when disnarration
or unnarration lead to genre change, they are participating in what I will call
“neonarrative”, or narrational strategies for making narrative genres new. –
221
Varieties of
Unnarratable in Classic Realist Fiction
Prince’s Dictionary
of Narratology defines “the narratable” as “that which is worthy of being
told; that which is susceptible of or calls for narration” (Prince 1987: 56).
If “unnarratable” (which Prince does not define in the dictionary) is to
be the antonym of this term, then it would mean “that which is unworthy of
being told,” “that which is not susceptible to narration,” and “that which does
not call for narration” or perhaps “unnarratable” as “that which, according
to a given narrative, cannot be narrated or is not worth narrating either because
it transgresses a law (social, authorial, generic, formal) or because it defies
the powers of a particular narrator (or those of any narrator) or because it falls
below the so-called threshold of narratibility (it is not sufficiently unusual or
problematic)” (Prince 1988: 1). – 222
1.
The subnarratable: what needn’t be told because it’s
normal
2.
The supranarratable: what can’t be told because it’s
“ineffable”
3.
The antinarratable: what shouldn’t be told because
of social convention
4.
The paranarratable: what wouldn’t be told because
of formal convention
Narrative in Film:
Stretching the Boundaries of the Unnarratable
1.
The subnarratable
2.
The antinarratable
3.
The paranarratable
Disnarration and Unnarration
in Film
