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“Narratology” is a recent method of literary criticism adopted by exegetes for the analysis of Old Testament narratives. The aim of this introduction is to help the student find a way through the forest of new terms used by specialists and to give numerous examples of texts analyzed according to this new methodology. The work also contains, as far as possible, references to the origin of the...

CHAPTER I “Story” and “Discourse” The very first and one of the most useful distinctions of narrative analysis is that between “story” and “discourse”. This distinction is already found in Aristotle. In this context G. GENETTE, Figures III (Paris 1972) 72, may usefully be consulted for the difference between (French) “histoire”, “récit” and “narration”. The English translation of this work is Narrative Discourse. An Essay in Method (Ithaca, New York 1980). For the passage in question cf. p. 27: the
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