The novel begins with the body, hides the murder event itself until the end, and follows the detective’s limited perspective to keep the reader in suspense.
An event can happen once in the story but be narrated multiple times in the discourse from different perspectives (repetitive narrative). Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fic...
In literary theory, particularly structuralism, the distinction between and Discourse is the foundation for understanding how narrative works. This framework was famously popularized by theorists like Seymour Chatman and Gérard Genette. 1. The Core Distinction The novel begins with the body, hides the
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