Discours
According to the French literary scholar Gérard Genette , discours describes the way in which a material is presented , a story, the histoire . It divides the means of the discours into the three subgroups narrative time , narrative aspects (focus) and the narrative modes distance and immediacy ( point-of-view ).
The pairs of opposites story - plot and fabula - sujet are used analogously .
literature
- Tzvetan Todorov : The categories of literary narrative. In: Heinz Blumensath (ed.): Structuralism in literary studies. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1972, ISBN 3-462-00814-5 , pp. 263–294 (translation from: Les catégories du récit littéraire. In: Communications. 8, 1966, ISSN 0588-8018 , pp. 125–151, online , translated by Irmela Rehbein).