Is There a French Postclassical Narratology ?

John Pier (1)

1 CRAL - Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage

This brief historiographic study shows that French narratology does not divide into a “classical” narratology and “postclassical narratologies” in the way spoken of by David Herman or into the hyphenated “narratol o- gies” identified by Ansgar Nünning. The principal players (Barthes, Tod o- rov, Genette) turned to other pursuits, and Ricœur’s watershed Time and Narrative opposed “semiotic rationality” to “narrative intelligenc e” of a hermeneutic type while the disappearance of structuralist linguistics as a “pilot science” was not succeeded in France by the “renaissance” of narr a- tology that occurred in other countries starting in the early 1990s. The o- re t ically oriented research on narrative continued, but not always under the label of narratology, some of it in non - literary fields. French discourse analysis appears to offer a conceptual and methodological framework for addressing the concerns of postclassical narratology.

Mots clés: Narratology

Domaines: Littératures

John Pier. Is There a French Postclassical Narratology ?. Greta Olson (dir.); Introduction de M. Fludernik et G. Olson. Current Trends in Narratology, Walter de Gruyter, pp.97-124, 2011, Narratologia. ⟨hal-01229438⟩