Shen, Dan (2005) “What Narratology and Stylistics can do for each other” in A Companion to Narrative Theory (eds.) James Phelan & Peter J. Rabinowits: 136-149. Oxford: Blackwell.

Difference Between “Discourse” and “Style”

Discourse according to Genette (1980)

1. Tense: Relation between story-time and discourse-time

a. Order

b. Duration: Actual duration of the events and textual length.

c. Frequency

2. Mood: Forms and degrees of narrative representation

3. Voice: Way the narrative is implicated

Sequencing in style is of three types:

1.      Presentational

2.      Chronological: Syntactic ordering

3.      Psychological: Choices of words for the point of view

Reasons for the Boundary

Stylistic analysis

-          the use of language

-          uses foregrounding

-          uses the findings of linguistics

Narratological analysis

-          focuses on the relation between story events and their arrangements

-          works on “anachrony”, i.e. deviation from chronological events

-          uses the findings of linguistics metaphorically

Across the Boundary

Current Practices and Future Studies