Allameh Tabataba’i University, Iran
Narratology is a literary science which deals with the systematic study of the narratives. The aim of this science is to reveal the underlying structures and relations that are involved in the creation of a story and its meaning. To fulfill this objective, narratology’s theoreticians have introduced and defined a series of language-based rules which all narratives written in all languages share. Thus, in practice, a narratological reading shows the ways through which the authors apply these structural rules to their texts. Genette, the French structuralist, has introduced five narrative categories in his book, Narrative Discourse; these categories include Order, Duration, Frequency, Mood, and Voice. The present paper addresses Genette’s narrative categories in Joseph Conrad’s short story, Youth, to manifest the structural nuances in this narrative and to help the readers, in general, and the students of English Literature, in particular, to touch upon the style of Conrad’s writing.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Third International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.TLLL.IR), 31 January-1February 2019 , Ahwaz.
