Narratology

Narratology is the study and theory of narratives.

Quotes

 * Here she drew forth a small pocket-book, took from it a card and a pencil and, after meditating a moment, wrote a few words. It is our privilege to look over her shoulder, and if we exercise it we may read the brief query: [...].
 * Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady, XLIV


 * The hero [of a narrative] must be male, regardless of the gender of the text-image, because the obstacle, whatever its personification, is morphologically female....The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences. Female is what is not susceptible to transformation, to life or death; she (it) is an element of plot-space, a topos, a resistance, matrix and matter. And remember, the universe should always be considered a whole-sort-of-general-mish-mash.
 * Lauretis, Teresa de (1984). "Desire in Narrative", Alice Doesn't, p. 118-119. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253203163.


 * Narrating incredible things as though they were real—old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible—the new.
 * Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living, 1943-11-11