Standart structure of fictional narrative communication

- the level of non-fictional communication (author and reader) – extratextual level

- the level of fictional mediation and discourse (narrator and addressee(s)) – intertextual level

- the level of action (characters) – intertextual level

Narrator types

An “Overt” narrator is one who refers to him/her in the first person (I, we), one who directly or indirectly addressees the narrator, one who offers readers friendly exposition whenever it is needed, one who exhibits a discoursal stand towards characters and events, especially in his/her use of rhetorical figures, imagery.

A “Covert” narrator – he/she is one who neither refers to him or herself nor addressees any narrates, one who has a more/less “neutral” (non-distinctive) voice and style, one who is sexually indeterminate, one who does not provide exposition even when it is urgently needed. One who doesn’t interfere, one who lets the story events unfold in their natural sequence and tempo, one whose discourse fulfils no obvious phatic, appellative or expressive functions.

Genette’s narrative types

Genette’s two basic types of narratives are:

1. Homodiegetic narrative.

In a homodiegetic narrative the story is fold by a (homodiegetic) narrator who is presented as a character in the story (a text is homodiegetic if among its story-related-action sentences there are some that contain first-person pronouns (I did this. I saw this. etc), indicating that the narrator was at least a witness to the events depicted).

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