The Basic Composition of Literary Narration

The composition of narrative includes three levels:

Narrative content, narrative discourse and narrative behavior. Narrative content is the story content that constitutes the theme of narrative discourse. Narrative discourse is the statement itself that makes the story appear. Narrative action is the narrative itself, which exists as an act and dominates the narrative discourse.

Narration has two basic characteristics: one is the process of expressing social life events, and the other is discourse fiction or hypothesis.

Extended data:

Literary narration is different from daily narrative language, and it has intrinsic referential nature. Narration, as a fiction of discourse, has a distance from the objective reality.

The content of narrative is the process of social life events, that is, human social behavior and its results. The object of narration is generally social people, which is the same as the object of literary works. Different from lyric works, narrative literature tells stories and expresses objective events.

Narrative literature is to tell stories, that is, to grasp the social reality itself through the description of external events. The interest of narrative lies not in static people or things, but in dynamic events, that is, human behavior and its consequences. Its cognitive value lies in showing the development and change process of social life and its significance.

Literature is an aesthetic ideology. The aesthetic ideological essence of literary narration not only restricts the content of narration, but also restricts and influences the form of narration.

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